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Tail distinctly different in color from lower back. 

 Tail more grayish than back. 



Culion Island, T. mollendorffi, p. 81. 

 Tail more blackish than back. 



Palawan Island, T. palaivanensis, p. 78. 

 Tail approximately of the same general color as lower back. 

 Rostmm rather short and heavy with an abrupt origin from 



rest of skull Cuyo Island, T. cuyonis, p. 82. 



Rostrum not imusually short and heavy nor with an abrupt 

 origin from rest of skull. 



Great Redang Island, T. lacernata obscura, p. 55. 

 Hind foot and condj'lobasal length of skull usually exceeding 45 

 mm. and tail more or less darker than lower back. 

 Tail conspicuously darker than rest of upper parts. 

 Size slightly larger, condylobasal length about 47 mm., max- 

 illary tooth row 19 mm. Middle third of Malay Penin- 

 sula, T. lacernata ivilhinsoni, p. 52. 



Size slightly larger, condylobasal length short, 45 mm., max- 

 illary tooth row 18 mm. 



Lankawi and Terutau Islands, T. lacernata lacernata, p. 53. 



Tail darker than rest of upper parts, but not conspicuously so. 



Skull relatively short and wide, general color more olivaceous. 



Butang Islands, T. lacernata raviana, p. 54. 



Skull relatively not so short and wide, general color more 



ochraceous, 



Perhentian Islands, T. lacernata longicauda, p. 5G. 



TUPAIA GLIS (Dlard). 

 (Synonymy, type specimens, etc., under the subspecies.) 



Geograjyliic distribution. — Southern third of the Malay Peninsula, 

 and various adjacent islands, and Sumatra. 



Diagnosis. — Upper parts a grizzle of a color between ferruginous 

 and chestnut, and blackish, tail a grizzle of buffy and blackish; 

 mammse, 2-2 = 4. 



Color. — Upper parts of head, neck, and body, and outer side of legs 

 a grizzle of ferrugmous or chestnut and blackish, tail both above and 

 below a grizzle of buffy and blackish, the black in excess above and 

 the buff below, especially along the middle line ; underparts including 

 inner side of legs various shades of buff, often with dark bases of the 

 haii-s showing through; feet a fine grizzle of buffy and blackish, the 

 latter color in excess; shoulder stripe of average development, vary- 

 ing from yellow to buff yellow. Often around base of tail and thighs 

 the ferruginous or chestnut color is replaced by an ochraceous tint. 



SlcuU and teeth. — These show no special distmguishing character- 

 istics. The rostrum is relatively long, and the distance from the 

 front of the premaxilla to the lachrymal pit is generally greater than 



