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premolar is distinctly four-sided in outline, while in Tupaia it is 

 rather triangular. The third premolar in Anathana has a very evi- 

 dent protocone, while in Tupaia and Tana it is quite rudimentary. 

 Corresponding with the conspicuous development of the protocones 

 of the third and fourth premolars the metaconid of the fourth lower 

 premolar is much increased in size as compared with its development 

 in Tupaia. See iig. 7 on page 121. 



A cecum about 25 mm. long is perhaps one of the generic characters. 

 See page 14. 



GeograpMc distribution. — Anathana is confined to the Indian 

 peninsula, south of the River Ganges. The northeastern part of its 

 range almost meets the southwestern limit of Tupaia cMnensis. So 

 far as our present knowledge goes the two genera do not overlap in 

 then- distribution. See map, page 125, Nos. 1, 2, 3. 



Number of forms. — The genus Anathana contains but a single 

 species group, easUy separable into three forms. Perhaps they are 

 nothing more than subspecies, but material is at present lacking to 

 show intergradation. 



Anathana ellioti, eastern India; upper parts and tail reddish 

 brown, feet and hind legs buff or ochraceous, page 122. 



Anathana pallida, northeastern India; upper parts a less conspicu- 

 ous reddish brown, different in color from tail, feet and hind legs 

 grizzled buffy, page 124. 



Anathana wroughtoni, western India; upper parts dull grizzled 

 brownish, tail slightly dissimilar, feet and hind legs grizzled grayish, 

 page 123. 



Eemarks.— Anathana is clearly closely related to Tupaia in 

 most of its characters. In the small size and oval shape of the 

 zygomatic fenestra it resembles Dendrogale, as well as in the barely 

 mdicated face markings, which are even lacking in one species of 

 Demlrogale. In the development of the hypocones of the upper 

 molars and the protocones of the premolars it is approached by 

 VrogaJe and Ptilocercus. It is quite distinct from any of the family 

 in the relatively smaU size of the lower canines, and is the antithesis 

 of Urogale, which has the lower canines exceedmgly weU developed. 



ANATHANA ELLIOTI (Waterhouse). 



1849. Tupaia ellioti Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1849, p. 107, plate, 



mammalia, 13. 

 1879. Tupaia ellioti, Anderson, Zool. Res. West Yunnan, 1879, p. 124, pi. 7, 



figs. 12 and 13. 

 1888. Tupaia ellioti, Blanford, Fauna Brit. Ind. Mamm., p. 209, 1888. 



Type-locality. — Hills between Cuddapah and NeUore, eastern Ghats, 

 India, not far from Madras. 



Type-specimen. — In British Museum, Reg. No. 50.1.21.5, adult 

 male, collected by W. Elliot, who procured specimens "from the hUls 

 between Cuddapah and NeUore in what may be termed the eastern 



