MAMMALIA. 
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Gymnura Rafflesii. — Raffles’s Gymnura. 
Plate VIII. fig. 6. 
Body robust; head large ; muzzle much elongated ; hair on 
the whole body setose, mingled with soft fur; tail naked; 
claws retractile. Length of body upwards of fourteen inches *, 
tail ten inches and a quarter. Inhabits Sumatra. 
Genus 5. — Par ameles. — Geoffroy. 
Generic Character _Incisory teeth ™ or canines J-J, grin¬ 
ders or : total 50. • The last incisors on each side of 
the upper jaw very long ; those of the lower divided by a 
groove; canine teeth long ; grinders acutely tubercular; head 
very long; fore feet with five distinct toes, the three middle 
longest, and the thumb merely rudimentary; hind feet longer 
than the fore, and having four toes only, two of which are in¬ 
ternal, very small, united and enveloped in the skin, the claws 
only being seen; the third very long, with a strong claw, and 
the outer one very small; tail long and pointed, thick at the 
base and naked beneath ; not prehensile. 
Parameles nasuta .— The Long-Nosed Pouched Parameles. 
Plate XIX. fig. 1. 
Fur grayish-brown above, and white beneath; head long; 
muzzle slender and produced. Cutting teeth 1 6 °. Inhabits New 
Holland. 
Division II. — Cutting teeth the lower very long; in the 
under jaw the canines are very small, and in some none. 
Genus 6—Phalangista. — Geoffroy. 
Generic Character.—* Incisors £, canines *—or none, false 
grinders or |~f, grinders or Izi > tota ^ 38 or 40. Fore¬ 
head convex; snout elongated ; feet with five toes, not united 
to the body by the skin of the sides ; anterior toes separate, fur¬ 
nished with strong crooked nails ; hind feet, with a large thumb 
