miller] seventy new MALAYAN MAMMALS 45 



P. hcrmaphroditns, but not essentially different in form. Nasals flat 

 posteriorly. 



Color. — Entire animal wood-brown, the belly and tail tinged with 

 buff, the back somewhat lightened by the indistinct, grayish, sub- 

 terminal annulations of the hairs. Dorsal line from crown to base 

 of tail clouded by a wash of mummy-brown, most distinct on head 

 and neck. Feet and outer surface of front legs tinged with broccoli- 

 brown. The fur of the upperparts, chin, and throat is drab at base, 

 that of belly and tail buffy throughout. Everywhere the hairs have 

 a distinct silvery gloss, but this is especially noticeable on distal half 

 of tail. Whiskers light wood-brown. 



Skull and teeth. — The skull (pi, iv, fig. i, and pi. v, fig. i) closely 

 resembles that of Paradoxurus hermaphroditus (pi. iv, fig. 2, and pi. 

 V, fig. 2), but the interpterygoid space is narrower and there 

 is scarcely a trace of the longitudinal groove involving the region 

 between upper rims of maxillaries. Teeth essentially as in P. 

 hermaphroditus, but inner lobe of upper sectorial longer, and set at 

 a somewhat different angle, so that the width of the palate is con- 

 siderably reduced. 



Measurements. — External measurements of type : total length, 

 845; head and body, 485; tail vertebras, 360; hind foot, yy (75) ; 

 ear from meatus, 33; ear from head, 19.6; width of ear, 25. 



Cranial measurements of type: greatest length, 104 (112) ;^ basal 

 length, 99 (107) ; basilar length, 94.6 (102) ; median palatal length, 

 47 (50) 5 breadth of palate between sectorials, 14 (18) ; breadth of 

 palate between front molars, 19 (21) ; length of interpterygoid space, 

 20 (24) ; breadth of interpterygoid space at middle, 8.6 (10.2) ; con- 

 striction in front of postorbital processes, 17 (19) ; constriction 

 behind postorbital processes, 10.4 (11) ; zygomatic breadth, 62 

 (58) ; mastoid breadth, 38 (38) ; breadth of braincase above roots of 

 zygomata, 32 (33) ; mandible, 78 (81) ; maxillary toothrow, ex- 

 clusive of incisors (alveoli), 39 (41) ; greatest diameter of upper 

 sectorial, 10.2 (10.2) ; mandibular toothrow exclusive of incisors 

 (alveoH), 44 (41). 



Specimens examined. — Two, the type, and the skull of an adult 

 female, the latter from South Pagi Island. 



Remarks. — This well characterized species is probably most closely 

 allied to Paradoxurus hermaphroditus, though in color it undoubtedly 

 more nearly resembles P. aureus, an animal which I have not seen. 

 It is apparently of about the same size as the Ceylonese musang. 



^ Measurements in parenthesis are those of an adult male Paradoxurus 

 kermaphroditus from Trong, Lower Siam (No. 86,793). 



