MA.\nfALS FROM K A RIM AT A ISLANDS— MILLER. 61 



Family VIVERRID.E. • 



VIVERRA TANGALUNGA Gray. 



Three specimens from Karimata Island. The}^ are not as dark as 

 usual. The two adults measure as follows: Adult female, No. 125U95, 

 total length 935 mm.; head and bod}' 610; tail 325; hind foot 108; 

 weight 3.17 kg. Adult female, No. 125118, tail 350 mm.; hind foot 

 105; weight 3.63 kg. The second specimen has two well-developed 

 mamma?, both ventral. 



Family TUPAIID.E. 



TUPAIA CARIMATiE, new species 



Tyjje.—AiluM male (skin and skull), No. 125123, United States 

 National Museum. Collected on Karimata Island, Septem])er 2, 190J:, 

 by Dr. W. L. Abbott. Original number, 3716. 



Characters. — Like Tapaia chryHOinalla of the Anambas Islands, but 

 general size less, skull shorter and relatively broader, and teeth 

 much smaller. 



Color. — The color throughout agrees with that of Tiipaia chri/somal- 

 1(1.," though the back averages slightly darker and the ferruginous is 

 perhaps faintly less bright. 



Skull and teeth. — The skull is noticeal)ly smaller than in Tupaia 

 chrysomalla^ that of full-grown males being- exceeded by that of 

 females of the related species. The rostrum is considerably short- 

 ened, giving an outline much like that in Tupiiia malacca,na. Teeth 

 like those of Tujxua chry Somalia., QxcQ^t that they are smaller through 

 out, a difference particularlv noticeable in the first and second upper 

 molars. 



Measurements. — Skull of t3'pe: Greatest length, 46 mm. (51)^, con- 

 dylobasal length, 1:2.2 (47.2); basal length, 39 (44.6); palatal length, 

 23.4 (27.2); least distance from orbit to tip of premaxillary, 18.8 (23); 

 least distance from orbit to posterior point of occiput, 21 (21) ; dias- 

 tema, 3.4 (4.4); width of rostrum at middle of diastema, 6.8 (6.4); 

 width of palate including m^, 15 (15.8); zygomatic breadth, 24.6 (24.8); 

 interorbital constriction, 13.2 (13.8); breadth of braincase, 18.8 (18.4); 

 mandible, 31 (34.4); maxillary toothrow, exclusive of incisors, 20.2 

 (24); mandibular toothrow, exclusive of incisors, 16.8 (19.6). 



« Miller, Proc. Washington Acad. Sci., II, pp. 232-233, August 20, 1900. 

 & Measurements in parenthesis are those of an adult male Tupaia chrysomalla from 

 Pulo Jimaja, Anambas Islands (No. 101,743). 



