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Smith. The Sumatran animal, the Mosehus kanchil of Raffles, 

 seems from specimens before us to be perfectly distinct. It is well 

 described by Raffles* and by Blyth,^ and can always be distin- 

 guished by the fact that the two dark stripes on the throat are 

 joined together anteriorly while in T. pelandoc they are separate, 

 never forming a complete A. The third species which Blanford 

 has apparently failed to recognize as distinct is the Tragulus rufi- 

 venter of Gray® an animal resembling T. kanchil in pattern of 

 markings, but of a very different color, being very bright tawny 

 with nearly the whole of the belly distinctly fulvous. Gray attrib- 

 utes this species with a query to Malacca and the Indian Peninsula, 

 while a specimen. No. 642 Coll. Acad. Nat. Sci., acquired many 

 years ago, is simply labeled " India." 



The following table will give an idea of the relationship of the 

 several species — exclusive of those recently described by Mr. Miller : 



a. — Body spotted, chin and throat hairy, . . . T. vieminna. 

 b. — Body not spotted, chin and longitudinal strip between the rami 

 of the mandible nearly or quite naked. 

 I. — Larger, length 25 ins. or more. 



a'. — Color above brilliant orange-rufous, hairs tipped with 

 black from the shoulders back, a black median lon- 

 gitudinal stripe dowTi the face and a dark line 

 from the eye to the nose. Hair on neck above and 

 below coarse and rough. Diagonal orange lines on 

 lower neck broad and united posteriorly by a trans- 

 verse band, forming a triangle open at the apex, a 

 pale-buff band down centre of belly, branching 

 out to the base of the limbs, . . T. stanleyanus. 

 h'. — Color above blackish with fulvous bases to the hairs. 

 Head and neck mixed with buff, darkest on top of 

 head, down the middle of the face and a band 

 down the nape. Sides of body becoming nearly 

 white at base of hair with dark-brown tips, rest of 

 lower parts white except marks on neck, which are 

 of the same pattern as in the last, but diagonal stripes 



longer and narrower, T. napu. 



Perhaps identical with this is . . . jT. javanicus. 

 II. —Smaller, length 18-21 ins. General color yellowish-brown 

 with black tips to the hair, lighter on sides, imder parts 

 white and forelegs distinctly orange -rufous. 



* Trans. Linn. Soc, XIII, p. 262. 



* Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1858, p. 276. 

 6 P. Z. S., 1836, p. 65. 



