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Measurements of the genus Anathana. 



iType. 



2 Slaill only. 



3 Preserved in alcohol. 



4 Genitalia weU developed. 



6 One inguinal, one axUlary, one ventral nearer the inguinal one. 

 6 pm ■» just appearing. 



Genus DENDROGALE Gray. 



Type. — Hylogalea murina Schlegel and Miiller.^ 



Diagnostic characters. — A small member of the family Tupaiidse 

 with a skull closely resembling that of Tupaia, but fenestra in zj^goma 

 reduced to a minute foramen; externally characterized by a close- 

 haired rounded tail and by absence of shoulder stripe, and usually by 

 presence of conspicuous face markings. Mammse probably, 1-1 = 2. 



External characters. — Dendrogale is one of the smallest members of 

 the family; its head and body measurements are about the same as 

 those of Ptilocercus; its tail is decidedly sliortcr. It is the only small 

 member of the family with a round, uniformly close-haired tail. 

 Urogale has a somewhat similar tail, but is one of the largest members 

 of the family and has a much lengthened snout. The hairs of the tail 

 are comparatively short and appressed, producing a small, incon- 

 spicuous terminal pencil. The base of tail is clothed with relatively 

 long hairs, like those of the adjacent parts of body, but they rap- 

 idly diminish in size to become the short appressed form. The 

 naked area of the nose is cut squarely across as in Tupaia. The fifth 

 digit on the hind foot is relatively longer than it is in Tupaia and the 

 first relatively smaller. The ears are relatively larger than they are 

 in Tupaia, due to increase in size of upper and posterior portions; 

 they are also better haired. In the genus Anathana, which also has 

 larger ears than Tupaia, the increase in size takes place in the lower 



J-Vech. Nat. Gesch. Nederl. Overz. Bezitt., 1843, p. 160. 



