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Show 224 MR. o. THOMAS ON [Mar. 15, grey, then laterally there is a broad band on each side of rich olive-yellow, and the tips are grizzled yellow and black. Skull and teeth apparently not definitely distinguishable from those of T. ferruginea. Zygomatic vacuity large, widely open, about 5 x 2 millim. in the type. Dimensions:-Head and body (c.) 200 millim.; tail (c.) 140 (the extreme tip of the tail in the type is apparently wanting; the tail-length in b and c is 127 and 153 respectively); hind foot 41. Skull: basal length (c.) 45#5 ; greatest breadth 27 ; anterior rim of orbit to nasal tip 22" 5 ; interorbital breadth 15; palate, length 27"8, breadth outside ^ 16*4, inside m2 9-7 ; diastema between^ and c 4-55 between c and p^ l'l; front of ^ to back of m^ 27. T. montana is most nearly allied to T. ferruginea, Raff., and T. picta, Thos.1 It is distinguished from both by the colour of its tail, the former having this member dull annulated grey, and the latter brilliant rufous ; it has also a shorter tail than either. From the former again it is separated by developing in old age a median dorsal black line, and from the latter, in which the line is present at all ages, by its less sharp definition, and also the greater uniformity of the general dorsal coloration. 6. TUPAIA MINOR, Giinth. a. 8. 4500 feet. 9/10/91. b. 2- 4000 feet. 10/10/91. These specimens precisely agree with Dr. Giinther's types, and equally differ from the typical T. javanica in their smaller size and pure white bellies. 7. TUPAIA MELANURA, Thos.2 a. $.5000 feet. 10/91. Type. Size very small, less than in T. minor. Fur very soft, close, and velvety. General colour dark olivaceous grey, finely sprinkled with yellow, a slight suffusion of dark rufous on the rump and base of tail. Face rather clearer olive ; a short orange-coloured stripe above and below the eye, but not passing backwards towards the ear. No pale shoulder-stripe present. Belly-hairs grey basally, washed terminally, from chin to anus, with bright orange. Outer sides of limbs like back, inner sides like belly ; upper surfaces of hands and feet nearly black. Tail furred and coloured like body for about its basal inch and a half above and half inch below, but beyond that it differs from that of all other species by being quite cylindrical and short-haired, the hairs being closely adpressed and not forming a terminal pencil; in colour the short-haired part is deep jet-black throughout. Skull (Plate XIX. figs. 4 and 5) delicate, smooth, and evenly rounded. Zygomatic foramen reduced to a minute oval opening, which will scarcely admit the point of a needle. Palate without vacuities. Teeth. P nearly as long as i1 ; double-rooted. Canine and pj also 1 Described Ann. Mag. N. H. (6) ix. p. 251. 2 L. c. p. 252. |