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Show 508 MB. W. E. DE WINTON ON SOME [Apr. 21, 1. PUDUA MEPHISTOPUILES, sp. n. (Plate XIX.) The hair of the body is long and coarse, its basal portion peculiarly brittle and pith-like ; the terminal half is black with ferruginous tips, producing a rich brown colour. Tbe dorsal region is darker than the flanks, owing to the hairs having broader black bands with correspondingly reduced coloured tips; on the neck the tips are paler and longer, tbe black being much reduced, which gives a tawny appearance; towards the -head the black again increases, till the shorter hairs of the ears, face, and chin are almost black. The ears are thickly covered inride and out with hair, that on the inside being broadly tipped with white. The fore and hind-feet are black, most of the hairs being minutely tipped with buff ; the inner sides of the^ legs and the abdomen are clothed with long yellowish hair of a finer and more ordinary character. There is no turn in the hair of the face, the hair growing upwards from the nose. The ears are very short and partially concealed by the rough hair. The rhinarium from the nostrils down is deep. Tail entirely wanting. Measurements from skin (type $ juv. no. 96, i. 28. 3, in Brit. Mus.) :- Height at withers, about 320 millim. Length of hind foot (without hoof) . . 136 „ „ ear 53 „ "With the measurements of the skull I give those of the adult female described by Bennett, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 27, for comparison, so far as it is possible, tbe basal portion of the skull being unfortunately damaged. Table of Measurements. P. mephisto- p humUis_ plates. Greatest length, in straight line [points of millim. millim. p.mx. to base] 16*0 Greatest breadth [across zygomatic process of squamosal] '5 ot Nasals, greatest length 41 40 „ ,. breadth 22 16-5 Points of premaxillae to end of nasals. ... 27 ^° Bre idth of autenarial opening 16 b* Point of premaxilla to anterior rim of orbit 72 64 Antorbital fossa, breadth 10 ° „ length 15 Basifacial length 102 Basicranial „ 39 ~~ Length of molar series 50 4 Distance betw-een p.ms.1 23 J-m s i 29 28-5 ] D S 3 34 &l Front of molar series to point of premaxilla 4(r5 ^°' Palatal incisive foramina, length 19 "* Mandibles missing. breadth 12 |
