CTXoPTERrs SPHINX srm>'x. 



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conspicuous!)- tinged thronghoiit with tawny-olive, llji>i tinge gradu- 

 ally deepening on anterior portion of back, passing on nape of neck 

 into warm tawny-russet, and this again on sides of neck, forencck, 

 and flanks into tawny cinnamon-rufous (Hanks slightly paler than 

 sides of neck and foreneck) ; the latter colour sharply defined 

 against and contrasting with that of breast and belly. Ercast and 

 belly almost drab, with a faint wash of very light tawny-olivc. 

 Colour of nape of neck passing into dark Prout's brown on occiput 

 and vertex, this again into a paler brown on sides of head and 

 chin. Ears narrowly edged with white ; metacarpals and phalanges 

 (or the latter onl)-) of long digits usually brownish Avhite or whitish 

 brown more or less contrasting with dark membranes. — Two males 

 from IJandra, nr. Bombay (skins, 'J7.1 1.1.1, -i), are practically of the 

 same colour. 



Darker specimens. Three d ad. skins, November, Nan, N. Siam 

 (98.2.8.1-y) : liack mummy-brown (one skin) or almost bistre 

 conspicuously tinged with raw-umber particularly anteriorly (the 

 others). Sides of neck, foreneck, and Hanks deep russet-chestnut 

 (nearly burnt-umber : one skin), or dark mars-brown (another), or 

 ])ale russet (a third), more or less strongly contrasting with colour 

 of breast and belly. lireast and belly drab-grcy, drab, or hair- 

 brown, in any case more or less distinctly tinged with pale tawny- 

 olive. Head similar to back. Ears, metacarpals, and phalanges as 

 in bright-coloured specimens. — Specimens quite similar in colour to 

 these have been examined from Sylhet (2 ad. skin, June) and 

 liombay (two c? ad. skins, January and August). 



Adult females generally differ from adult males in the paler 

 colour of the neck and Hanks and consequently less pronounced 

 contrast of these ];arts of the fur with the centre of the breast 

 and belly. But though the difference is noticeable in any large 

 series of individuals of both sexes, single females are not infre- 

 quently found which are scarcely distinguishable in colour from 

 males (the specimen from Trevaudrura described above, though a 

 female, is one of the most brilliantly-coloured in the whole series 

 examined). 



Young individuals. Different from adults : Back darker or paler 

 slate-brown, sometimes without, more often with, a tinge of 

 tawny-olive or raw-umber; head similar to back or darker; sides 

 of neck, forencck, and flanks drab-grey with or without a tinge of 

 tawny-olivo ; breast and belly paler or darker drab. The baby 

 pelage is retained until the individuals are perfectly full-grown 

 (teeth even showing faint signs of wear), but at that age it is 

 sometimes (by no means always) distinctly mixed with hairs and 

 colours of the adult pelage. 



Meas-uremenis. On pp. 634, 637, 610. 



Sjyecimens e.ramined. Thirty-two, viz., in addition to those cata- 

 logued below and seven duplicates in the collection, four in the 

 Leyden Museum and four from the collection of the Bombay 

 Natural History Society, — from the following localities: — Ceylon 

 (one), Trevandrum (one), Kanara (one), Dharwar (five), Bombay 



