MYDAUS MELICEPS. 



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measures about 37 cm. (it was a skin without bony spine) 

 that is of the same size as our Borneo-specimen ; its skull 

 has been smashed and was for the rest in a very bad 

 state of conserva- 

 tion as it evidently 

 has been preserved 

 in a liquid which 

 attacked and soften- 

 ed the bones. 



The fur is much 

 longer than that of 

 the Borneo-Mydaus 

 and, contrary to 

 the harsh fur of the 

 latter, very soft to 

 the touch. The color 

 of the back is black, 



only a very few here and there scattered white hairs are 

 to be detected where in all the specimens from the above 

 named localities the large crown-spot adorns the head; no 

 trace of white line along the middle of the back , no 

 white tip to the tail , all those parts being of a uniform 

 black like the rest of the back. 



As I observed above , the skull has been smashed , the 

 unbroken anterior part however leaves not in doubt, the 

 dentition moreover can prove it , that the animal is a full 

 grown one. And now it appears , that the skull is much 

 smaller in all dimensions , nay still smaller than the above 

 discussed Borneo-skull. The 

 lower jaw (see the figure) 

 measures not more than 46 

 mm.; its basal part describes 

 a curved line such like in 

 the lower jaw of the Borneo- 

 skull, indeed a striking difference between these skulls and 

 the Java-one , of which a figure of the lower jaw above. 

 Compared with the other ones the Calamiaues-skull has 



!Notes from the Leyden Museum, "Vol. XVII, 



