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Show 222 MR. o. THOMAS O N [Mar. 15, Shrews, and this difference between the two collections, while increasing the number of species, decreases the value of any comparisons of the two mountain-faunas. The Dulit Mammals amount to 14, of which four are new, the Kina Balu to 21, and, 5 being common to both, the two mountains together contain, so far as is yet known, a total of 30 species. Of these the large proportion of 9 are peculiar to these mountains, but this proportion will probably be reduced as our knowledge of the mammals inhabiting the low countries near the mountains is extended. As a contribution towards this knowledge, a nominal list of the mammals collected bv Messrs. Hose and A. H. Everett near the mouth of the Baram River is appended below. By this it will be seen that there is a far greater essential difference between the Dulit and Baram faunas than there is between those of Dulit and Kina Balu. Mr. Hose is to be congratulated on the interest and value attaching to this mountain-collection, and especially on his discovery of the new Hemigale, a species very distinct from its only ally, and belonging to an Order, the Carnivora, in which novelties are now excessively rare. 1. HEMIGALE HOSEI, Thos.1 (Plate XVIII.) a. 3. 4000 feet. 30/9/91. Type. Size and proportions very much those of H. hardwickei, although the skull seems to be rather more lightly built. General colour above uniform dark smoky brown or black, the bases of the body-hairs whitish. Sides of muzzle at the roots of the whiskers white, the corresponding place in H. hardwickei being black; cheek below eye and a patch above and behind it grizzled brownish white. Ears thinly haired, pure white on their inner aspect; edges in marked contrast to the black crown. Chin white ; chest, belly, and inner sides of limbs proximally smoky yellowish grey. Rest of limbs and whole of tail black. Skull (Plate XIX. figs. 1-3) rather slenderer and lighter than that of specimens of H. hardwickei of similar age and sex. Muzzle rather more parallel-sided, not tapering so much anteriorly. Infraorbital foramina comparatively large. Teeth very much more delicate than those of the allied species. Canines long and slender. P^ longantero-posteriorly, double-rooted, with accessory cusps, like p2, and like the p^ of H. hardwickei, in which p_* is simple and single-rooted. Other teeth above similar in shape to those of 77. hardwickei, although markedly smaller, and with their inner lobes especially reduced. M2, however, is as large as in H. hardwickei, m1 andm2 being approximately equal. Similarly below the teeth are smaller and narrower, but p1 and m2 are less so in proportion. Dimensions (approximate, from skin) : - Head and body 540 millim.; tail 320 ; hind foot 78. Skull: basal length 89; greatest breadth 45"3; interorbital 1 Preliminary diagnoses of the new species have been given, Ann. Mag. N. H. (6) ix. pp. 250-253. |