42 MYDAUS MELTCEPS. 



former fauna , by submersion of the land perhaps , pushed 

 towards the elevated countries, the mountains. 



Since more than seventy years the Teledoe , Seng-goeng or 

 Teleggo, indigenous names for the animal , has been knovs^n 

 from Java and Sumatra ; the first specimen from Borneo , 

 hovrever, has been procured — as far as I am aware — 

 by Mr. C. Bock from East-South-East-Borneo, and is in 

 the Leyden Museum since 1879 (see my Catalogue Syste- 

 matique des Mammifères, 1892, T. XI, p. 134), mean- 

 while some years ago Mr. Everett has met with it in 

 North Borneo. 



According to Mr. Everett's paper in the P. Z. S. L. 1889, 

 »on the Zoogeographical relationships of the Island of 

 Palawan and some adjacent Islands", a Mydaus-STp. (?) is 

 known to exist in the Palawan-group ; Mr. Everett however 

 observes: »this animal has never been actually obtained, 

 I believe , by any collector, but it has frequently been 

 described to me by Europeans as well as by natives." 



The evidence that a J^cZaus-species actually is living 

 in the Palawan-island grows, as I at present have to record 

 a new and very interesting locality where the Teledoe 

 occurs, namely the Calamianes-islands, lying between 

 Palawan and Mindoro, in the Philippine-Archipelago. 

 One specimen, a male, has been presented by Dr. Schaden- 

 berg to our Museum. It induced me to review our mate- 

 rial and to study what has been published relating Mydaus 

 meliceps. 



It seems that the white line along the middle of the 

 back is subject to rather great variation : from our large 

 series of Java-specimens I conclude that the typical mode 

 of coloration is , in young ones , an uninterrupted white 

 band from the large white spot on the crown of the head 

 to the root of the tail ; this white band grows more or 

 less inconspicuous in elder individuals and disappears in 

 very adult ones entirely, merely leaving on the haunches 

 a narrow white line. In some halfgrown individuals the 

 white back-band is once or repeatedly broken off, mean- 

 Notes from, the Leyden IMuseuni , "Vol. X.VII. 



