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Show 1885.] GENUS PARADOXURUS. 801 the Philippine Islands, and in this list included a species of Marten. He used no such name as Martes philippensis, but his supposed Marten may have been the present Paradoxurus. Half palate and dentition of P. philippinensis. (Spec. no. B.M. 42.2.15.242.) Jourdan's description is very poor, but there is no reason to suppose that the species described by him was different. Temminck's description was taken from the Philippine specimens in the British Museum by Mr. Ogilby ; but Temminck was mistaken in supposing that the Ambliodon dore of Jourdan was the same species. 4. PARADOXURUS MACRODUS. Paradoxurus macrodus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 538 ; Cat. Cam. &c. M a m . B. M . 1869, p. 70. This species is only known by a skull preserved in the British- Museum collection. This skull was received from the Zoological Society many years ago, when the Society's museum became a part of the National Collection. Nothing is known of the locality or history of the specimen, and the skin has not been preserved. The general form of the skull, which has been figured in the Society's 'Proceedings' and in the British-Museum Catalogue, differs in no respect from that of P. hermaphroditus, but the teeth are very much larger, the sectorial in both upper and lower jaw and the first true molar in the upper and fourth premolar in the lower especially. It is true that there is a gradual increase in size in these teeth from Indian or Ceylonese examples of P. niyer to Bornean skulls of P. hermaphroditus, but the difference between the latter and P. macrodus is greater than that between the teeth of Ceylonese or Indian and of Bornean skulls. |