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Measurements of speeimens of Paradoxurus, Virerra, and Arctor/alidia from Banka and 



Billilon. 



" Type. 



TUPAIA INFLATA, new species. 



1888. Tupaia javanica 3 ENTi^K, Mas. d'Hist. Nat. Pays-Bas, XII, 1888, p. 117. 



1890. Tupala javanica. Jentink, Notes from Leyden Museum, XXII, p. 152, 

 March, 1890. 



1905. Tupaia javinica Willink, Natuurkundig Tijdschrift Nederlandsch-Indie, 

 LXV, p. 298. 



Type.— Aduh male, skin and skull, Cat. No. 124709, U.S.N.M., col- 

 lected at Tanjong- Rengsam, island of Banka, east of Sumatra, May 

 2(», 1904, by Dr. W. L. Abbott. Original number, 3241. 



Diagnostic characters. — A small member of the genus related to 

 Tnalaccana., javanica.^ and minor. It is larger than malaccana (hind 

 foot 38 against 34) with a darker belly and obscured shoulder stripe. 

 It is about the same size as javanica., but much lighter both above 

 and below, and with longer tail. The skull is slightl}^ larger than that 

 of malaccana., decidedly shorter than that of javanica., and has the 

 brain case more inflated than in either of them. In comparing in-flata 

 with minor in the British Museum, Mr. Miller noted that the skull of 

 inilata is slightly greater in size, and has the brain case conspicuously 

 deeper and more inflated than it is in minor. 



Color.— Ty-^Q,: Upper surface of head and body a fine grizzle of 

 black and a color between russet and tawn}^ olive, the russet being 

 more conspicuous anteriorly and the tawii}^ olive posteriorl3^ Sides of 

 body, outer surfaces of legs and feet similar in color to the back, but 

 the black of the hairs not so much in evidence. Cheeks and sides of 

 neck almost pure light russet with a slight grizzling of black. Chin, 

 throat, anterior part of chest, inner side of forelegs and posterior part of 

 belly, a light dull ochraceous or ochraceous-buff, darkest in the throat. 

 Middle of the underparts has a suffused patch 25 or 30 mm. in width 



