36 PARADOXURUS STIGMATICUS. 



viz. from Borneo. Dr. B. Hagen presented a beautiful and 

 fullgrown specimen to our Museum. It bad been collected 

 by him in the vicinity of Tandjong Morawa, Deli, N. E. 

 Sumatra. As the skeleton of this individual has been pre- 

 served and is in our collection, I believe it to be not 

 ■without interest to enter in some details , at the same time 

 completing Temminck's description of the type ^). 



A well marked dark brown line runns from between the 

 shoulders along the middle of the back as far as the base of the 

 long and slender tail : this line is very inconspicuous in the 

 type and perhaps therefore has been overlooked by Tem- 

 minck. A whitish line occupies the middle of the nose. 

 The skull agrees in many parts with that of Paradoxurus 

 trivirgatus, but the bony palate extends still further back- 

 wards than in that species and the first upper premolar is 

 placed close to the canine like in P. musanga and not at 

 a distance like in P. trivirgatus and P. musschenbroekii. 



Length of head and body 470 m.m. 



» » tail 525 » 



The skeleton presents 13 costales, 7 lumbares, 3 sacra- 

 les and 38 caudales. 



Gymnura alba Giebel. 



In a paper on Gymnura ^) I pointed out that the white- 

 colored specimens differ in several characteristics from the 

 dark colored individuals and form a distinct species, 

 which inhabits Borneo. I proposed to call this species Gym- 

 nura Candida^ a name given to this form by Dr. Günther 

 in 1876^); the only difference between Dr. Günther and 

 myself being that he could find no specific characters and 

 distinguished therefore the Borneo-form as a mere local va- 

 riety, under the name Gymnura rafflesii, var. Candida^ 



1) Esquisses zoologiques sur la cote de Guine'. 1853. p. 120. 



2) Notes from the Leyden Museum. 1881. p. 166. 



3) Proc. Zool. Soc. London. 1876. p. 425. 



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