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Show 426 DR. A. GUNTHER ON BORNEAN MAMMALS. [May 16, 2. TUPAIA ELLIOTI (Waterh.). This species has always remarkably short and rigid hair *; and the vacuity in the zygomatic arch is reduced to a small foramen. I have seen three examples of this species, viz.: -the type, from the hills west of Madras ; a second, found by Capt. R. C. Beavan near Maunbhoom (Bengal Pres.); and the third, brought by Major Lloyd from the Matheran hills near Bombay, which is the westernmost limit of the genus hitherto ascertained. 3. TUPAIA BELANGERI (Wagn.). Distinguished from the preceding by its much longer and softer fur. The foramen in the zygomatic arch is small, yet larger than in T. ellioti. Hitherto found in Burma, Upper Pegu, and Sikkim. The name given by Wagner is the first technical designation of this species, which in Belanger's 'Voyage' is described and figured as "Tupaia du Pegou." Jerdon ('Mamm. of India,' p. 65) used the name Tupaia peguana, Lesson ; however, the author of the account of the Mammalia in Belanger's ' Voyage' was not Lesson, but Is. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire. B. Small species. 4. T U P A I A JAVANICA (Horsf.) Found in Java and in the Dutch possessions of Sumatra and Borneo. Distinct as this species is from T. ferruginea, young examples of the latter can hardly be externally distinguished from T. javanica ; and one of the specimens examined and named T. javanica by Horsfield is clearly the young of the larger species, as is proved by its undeveloped dentition. A fully adult example from Java, also named by Horsfield, is 13 inches long, the tail taking very nearly one half. For comparison's sake with the following species, I give the measurements of the four posterior molar teeth of this example : Length. Width. millim. millim. a. Molar 20 20 b. Molar 30 30 c. Molar 2*5 3*5 d. Molar lo 30 5. TUPAIA MINOR, sp. n. Closely allied to T. javanica, but conspicuously smaller and with much shorter and rather rigid hair. All the hairs of the upper parts are grizzled with grey, brownish grey, and black, a reddish brown tinge prevailing in the middle of the hinder half of the back and on the tail; extremity of the tail black. Shoulder-stripe distinct. Lower parts yellowish white, of the tail brownish yellow. With the exception of the terminal hairs, the hairs of the tail are rather short. Length of body 5 inches 4 lines, of tail 6 inches 2 lines. * To judge from one example, the fur is soft and much longer at a verv voune age. |