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Museum , so that we congratulate Mr. Pasteur with the 

 splendid work he has done. 



The color of the fur a. s. o. I described in » Notes from 

 the Leyden Museum, 1890, p. 227"; I only have to add 

 that the red color has not the yellow tinge like in Cuvier's 

 figure , but is of a beautiful chestnut tinged red ; the hairs 

 of the belly are pure white in the young specimen (slightly 

 tinged with reddish in the adult individuals) like in the 

 old Java-specimen in our Museum ; the tail is very hairy 

 towards its root for about 25 Millimeters: for the rest it 

 looks smooth like a snake's skin: the scales (8 to 10 pro 

 Centimeter) are very dark brown colored , so that the spe- 

 cific title melanurus has »raison d'etre" and my hypothe- 

 sis (1. c. p. 227) that in our old dried Museum-specimens 

 the tail had been decolored, was quite right; there are 

 very short dark colored hairs — very difiScultly conspicuous 

 without the aid of a lens — regularly spread between these 

 scales (plate 3, fig. 8): the midmost is slightly longer than the 

 two others, the latter reaching about halfway the height 

 of a scale; towards its tip the tail is about without hairs, 

 the scales of that part are very small and few in number 

 and bear a much lighter brownish white color ; the ex- 

 treme point of the tail is destitute of hairs, very smooth 

 and purslain white. 



Whiskers black throughout, much longer than the head, 

 very numerous; the longest measure about 63 Millimeters. 



The strongly rounded oval ears are sparingly clothed 

 with short hairs; upper margin fringed with rather long 

 hairs. 



Size and shape of hands and feet will be clear from 

 the drawings (plate 3 , fig. 5 and plate 4 , fig. 6) , the nails 

 are short, well arched and very acutely pointed , brownish 

 white ; the nail of the rudimentary thumb of the hand is 

 very small and obtuse like that of the thumb of the hind 

 foot , which nail is however stronger. 



The female has four strongly (their young was suckling) 

 developed inguinal nipples. The clitoris is extraordinarily 



Notes fronT the Leytlen JVIuseutii, Vol. XIV. 



