106 PROCEEDINGS OP THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 45. 



TUPAIA JAVANICA Horsfield. 



1821. Tupaia javanica Horsfield, Zool. Res. Java, No. 3. Pages not numbered. 

 Plate of entire animal and figures of fore foot and teeth on another unnum- 

 bered plate. Date on title page of entire work, 1824. (In the next reference 

 below the third part of Horsfield 's Researches is referred to. This reference is 

 dated December, 1821.) 



1821. Sorex-Glis Javanica or Tupaya Javanica, Geoffrot and Cuvier, Hist. Nat. 

 Mamm., vol 3, livr. 35, p. 1 and plate, December, 1821. 



1842. Cladobates javanica, Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mamm., vol. 7, Tab. gen. Meth., 

 p. 2, 1842. 



1843. Hylogalea javanica, Schlegel and Muller, Verb. Nat. Gesch. Nederl. 

 Overz. Bezitt., p. 165, pi. 26, fig. 4; pi. 27, figs. 11 to 16. 



1879. Tupaia javanica, Anderson, Zool. Res. West. Yunnan, p. 134, pi. vii, 

 figs. 14 and 15. 



Type-locality. — Java, Province of Blambangan, probably near the 

 present town of Banyu-wangi at extreme eastern end of Java. See 

 Horsfield's Plantae Javanicae Rariores, 1838-1842, map in front, and 

 page V of postcript. 



Type-specimens. — In British Museum. This species was based 

 on two specimens collected by Thomas Horsfield in 1806, in extensive 

 forests in the Province of Blambangan, Java, One of these was sent 

 to the Museum of the Honorable East India Co. in 1812. It is now 

 in the British Museum, Reg. No. 79.11.21.574; it is not mounted, 

 is in poor condition; skull immature with the milk incisors stUl in 

 place, zygomata broken away, as well as occipital bones and anterior 

 third of right half of mandible. The other specimen was brought to 

 England by Horsfield in 1819, and is now in British Museum, No. 

 52a; it is an old specimen, was formerly mounted, and is in poor 

 condition; parts of the cranium posterior to the tooth rows are 

 broken away; mandible perfect. A third specimen marked " cotype " 

 is in the British Museum, No. 52b, Java, "pres. by E. F. Comp"; 

 neither its skin nor skull are in good condition, I do not consider 

 this specimen a cotype and see no reason why it should be so marked. 



Geographic distribution. — Java, western part of Sumatra back from 

 coast, and islandof Nias. See No. 1 on map on page 111. 



Diagnosis. — ^Tail longer than head and body; skull shaped like 

 that of Tupaia nicolarica, but much smaller, condylobasal length not 

 exceeding 41 mm.; central upper incisors and lower canines enlarged 

 in the manner of those of T. nicoharica; general coloration of upper 

 parts and tail olivaceous finely grizzled, under parts moderately 

 dark and grizzled; hind foot about 38 mm.; mammae, 2-2 = 4. 



Color. — Upper parts and sides of head, neck, body, tail, outerside of 

 legs and feet, with the general color effect of something between olive 

 and bister, produced by a fine distmct grizzling of blackish and 

 light tawny olive or raw sienna; the two colors about equally 

 mixed, the grizzling on the tail cop.rser and on the feet finer; 

 underparts of body always rather dark, the bases of the hairs being 



