HYPER ACRItrS 337 



Type locality. — Murree, Punjab. Altitude 7000 feet. 



Range. — Apparently restricted to the Rawal Pindi district 

 of the Punjab and the adjoining portion of Western Kashmir. 

 Known from the vicinity of the type locality at an altitude of 

 about 7000 feet; and from Sardalla, Kashmir at an altitude 

 of 8700 feet. 



Characters. — Size large (hind-foot 18-19 mm. ; condylo-basal 

 length 28-29 mm.). Fur highly modified; moderately long, 

 very soft and velvety, dense and mole-like. Vibrissse short and 

 weak. Ears small, concealed in the fur, hairy externally, naked 

 within. Palms and soles each with five tubercles ; sole hairy 

 from heel to posterior pad and thence naked; pollex well de- 

 veloped, with a small, short and stout claw. Claws of digits 

 II-IV, and particularly that of digit III, of the hand consider- 

 ably longer than those of the corresponding digits of the foot. 

 Mamma?, 1 — 2 = 6. 



Two well-marked colour phases occur. 



Light colour phase. — Upper parts yellowish-brown, varying 

 in different individuals between " cinnamon brown " and " Prout's 

 brown " (Ridgway), more or less darkened by the slaty bases of 

 the hairs; in some individuals the backs are greyish-brown 

 rather than yellowish-brown. Under parts greyish, with a well- 

 marked wood-brown or dirty whitish suffusion produced by the 

 light hair-tips, more or less darkened and mottled irregularly by 

 the slaty ground-colour. Feet and hands greyish-brown above. 

 Tail obscurely bicoloured, dark greyish-brown above, paler grey 

 below. 



Dark colour phase. — Upper parts ranging between a lustrous 

 seal-brown and a glossy blackish-brown. Under parts duller 

 and paler, lightened by the very short whitish or yellowish tips 

 of the ventral hairs. Hands and feet dark grey above. Tail 

 dusky grey, its bicoloration less noticeable than in the light 

 phase. 



In both phases the dorsal colour merges insensibly on the 

 flanks into that of the ventral surface ; some specimens are 

 decidedly grey above and more or less intermediate between the 

 hght and dark phases. 



Skull large and robust; in some respects rather less modified 

 than in the smaller species of the genus. Temporal ridges 

 diverging posteriorly more rapidly from the interorbital crest, 

 so that the interstephanic portion of the frontals is never so 

 reduced as it often is in skulls of H. fertilis. Anterior portions 

 of zygomatic arches descending more steeply from before back- 

 wards below the orbit. These characters indicate less power- 

 fully developed temporal and masseter muscles and less reduced 

 eyes than in the smaller species. Anterior palatal foramina 

 very small, usually much narrowed posteriorly. Posterior median 

 sloping septum of palate represented by a small median spinous 

 process which has a dorsal and posterior inclination; lateral 



