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washed with silvery ; a dull whitish collar extending across the nape 

 between (and including) the whiskers. Upper and lower lips white. 

 Hands and feet black. Below sparsel}'- haired, greyis-h white. 



Sknll more spherical (less elongate) and ninch smaller than 

 in the true langnrs ; frontal ridges obsolescent, the flattened area 

 immediately above them, so marked in entelhcs, schistacetis, &c., 

 entirely absent, with a conseqnently shortened muz ale. 



Dimensions of type, — Head and body 690 ; tail 755 ; hindfoot 

 168; ear 33. Skull; — Greatest length 107; condylo-basal length 

 83; zygomatic breadth 79; breadth across orbits 65 ; palatal length 

 37 ; upper molar tooth row 28. 



Habitat. — Northern Shan States. (Type from Hsipaw, alt. 1,400'). 



2'7j.>e.— Adult male. B. M. No. 14. 7. 8. 5. Original number 

 3080. Collected by Mr. .G. C. Shortridge, on the 26th May 1913, 

 and presented to the National Collection by the Bombay Natural 

 History Societ}'. 



In all 20 specimens obtained. Dv. Anderson in his Anat. and 

 Zool. Besearches records having seen troops of monkeys, which he 

 surmised to be P. barhei, but which were almost certainly these 

 species " in the Valley of the Tapeng, in the centre of the Kakhyen 

 hills " and again " in the defile of the Irrawaddy, above Mandalay, 

 on the left bank of the river." 



These species fall in Blanford's key, into Section .A, on account of 

 the whorl of hair on the forehead, this arrangement though conve- 

 nient is quite artificial, for shanicus is in no way closely i-elated to 

 the true langurs, but, as already stated, to the leaf monkeys such as 

 obscurus, &c. 



(D) PaRADOXURUS NIGER AND HERMAPHRODITUS OF BlANFORD. 



By E. C. Wroughton. 



Of the five species placed by Blanford in his key to the genus 

 Paradoxurns, one he places in a section, " B," by itself. This 

 species is now general!}^ recognised as belonging to a distinct genus, 

 Paguma, mainly on the characters used by Blanford. The two 

 species aureus and jerdoni, from Ceylon and Malabar respectively, 

 are such strongly marked forms that they too may be left out of 

 consideration here. Thus there remain the two names niger and 

 her maphrod.it us, undei' which Blanford has ranged all the true 

 toddy-cats. 



On laying out all the available material for comparison, it at 

 once becomes clear that we have not only two, but five forms, as 

 follows, viz. : — (1) a northern peninsular form, (2) a southern 

 peninsular form, (3) an Assam form, (4) a Burmese form, and 

 finally (5) a northern Malay form, which extends into our limits, 

 at any rate throughout Tenasserim. 



