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ON A LOCAL FOliM OF THE (CHINESE TODDY-OAT 

 TAKEN IN NORTH BURMA BY CAPT. A. W. KEMMIS. 

 BURMA MILITARY POLICE. 



BY 



R. C. Wroughton. 



' Payuma larvata intnidcns, subsp. n. 



A local race of P larvata of the Lower Yangtse Valley from wliich 

 it differs in the exaggeration of the white markings of the head 

 and neck. 



Size about the same as in typical 7^. Janata. 



Fur rather short (40 mm. on the back), coarse and rather harsh. 

 General colour a huffy shade of isal>ella'; underfur and basal one- 

 third of individual hairs pale drab, median third of latter black, 

 terminal third 'buff.' Face blacl^', a median white stripe fr. an the 

 nose over the vertex to the level of the shoulders, a detached white 

 patch on the back seems to indicate a tendency to a still further 

 prolongation backwards, of this median white line (in an Ichang 

 specimen, this white extends at most to the base of the neck) ; the 

 usual white spots on the cheeks and above the eyes ; the white spot 

 at the base of the ear produced backwards as far as the biise of the 

 neck and merging interiorly into tl e white throat patch. Ears and 

 chin black. Whole throat pure white. Hands, feet and distal h:ilf of 

 tail black, basal half ol tail like back, ventral surface whitish, indivi- 

 dual hairs on anterior half blackish basallv for half their length, 

 bases of hairs on posteriur half of belly dirty white. 



Skull not differing niattrially Inm that ot a slightly younger 

 individual from Kiukiang on the Yangtse 11., except in being some- 

 what larger. 



Dimensions of the type — Head and body, GOO mm. ; tail, 575 ; 

 hindfoot, liO. 



Skull : greatest length, 118 ; basilar length, 110; greatest breadth, 

 105 ; ufjper carnassial T'^x^o, tirst upper molar b x 7 5. 



Habitat — iSima near Myit.vyina — Not th Burma. 



r^/;^— Adult femaie— B. M. No. 9, 7, 20, G. Original Number 

 6. Collected on llith November 11)08 by Capt. A. VV. Kemmis. 



