465 



(On the skin the length to the root of tail sometimes exceeds 

 450 mm; tail 240 mm ; together a total length of about 700 mm.) 



Head proportionally very small, as well as the ears. 



Tail very short, its length in some specimens not exceeding half 

 the length of the body (head included). 



Fur very thick and \^ oolly, much like that of Ps. Archeri\ the tail 

 thickly clothed on the upper half or two thirds of its length, the thick 

 covering gradually tapering towards the tip, which is almost naked 

 (only a few short adpressed hairs). The lower part of the tail entirely 

 naked for two thirds of its length from the tip. 



Ears short and broad, longhaired on posterior roots, more thinly 

 towards their tips; inside they are well haired along the prominent 

 folds. 



Rhin a ri urn very narrow, the height being nearly double its 

 breadth. 



Pupil vertical. 



Claws short, rather blunt, almost hidden by the hairs. 



Colour. 



General Colouring resembling that of Ps. peregrinus. 



The back is grizzled gray with more or less reddish tune; all the 

 longer hairs having white tips. The rump more rufous. 



Head grey. A whitish spot (sometimes indistinct) above and 

 below the eye; a median dark line, more or less conspicuous, extends 

 from between the eyes to the occi])ut. In some specimens this line is 

 continued (very indistinctly) along the middle of the back. 



Ears with a small patch of white on the lower part of their 

 posterior border. Vibrissa black. 



Tail rufoTis like the rump, the white tipped hairs here being 

 scarcer. The thin hairs on the tip are sometimes blackish. 



Lower parts from chin to tail whitish; a rusty spot on the 

 middle of the chest. Lower part of the tail reddish, like the upper, 

 only a little clearer. 



Legs coloured above like the back, below whitish; hairy covering 

 of the claws in some s])ecimens blackish. 



Rhinarium black. 



A halfgrown specimen is coloured like the adult; the white 

 tips of the hairs less conspicuous , and the rusty spot on the chest 

 hardly visible. 



Skull. 



Skull small in proportion to the body. Its length in the largest 

 specimen 72 mm, the breadth 4 3 mm. 



Muzzle very slend(T and pointed (even narrower than iuDactylo- 

 psile trivirgata), not swollen. 



Nasals narrow, rather flattened above, reaching to about the 

 level of i ', and but little expanded behind; the nasofrontal angle very 



