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ON FIVE NEW MAMMALS FROM SIAM. 

 By C. Boden Kloss, f. z. s. 



i. Pachyua malayana, sp. nov. 



Tijpe ( and only specimen examined ). Adult female in alcohol. 

 Obtained at Ban^ Nara, Patani, Peninsular Siam, July 1916, by 

 Messrs. Williamson and Smith's collectors. Author's number 2603/ 

 C. B. K. 



D'lacjnosxs. Colour, as viewed with the head of the specimen 

 pointing to the left and the light falling from the front, above bistre 

 ( Ridgway ), below hair-brown; in some lights distinctly greyish 

 beneath as the hairs have pale glistening tips. 



Scattered over the body and hind limbs are a number of long 

 pale hairs like tliose which occur on the tail; a small patch of adpressed 

 liairs on the sides ; tail regularly tapering, dark above and thick!}' clad 

 with very short hairs, paler below ; hindfeet darker and less naked 

 than the forefeet ; ears scantily clad with veiy short liairs. 



Measurements. Head and body, 43; tail, 25; hind-foot, s. u., 

 7.1; ear, 6. Skull (cranium damaged ) : palatal length, 5.0 ; upper 

 tooth-row from front of incisors, 5.6 ; lachrymal breadth of rostrum, 

 2.4; greatest breadth of rostrum, 1.1 ; tip of incisors to posterior e.\- 

 tremity of mandible, 8.6; mandibular tooth-row, 5.3. 



liemarls. This is one of the smallest of mammals and the first 

 example of a pygmj' shrew of the genus Pachi/ura that has been met 

 with in the Malay I'eiiinsula. 



A female from Amherst, Tenasserim, was described and named 

 by BIyth in 1855 ( Sorex nudipes, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xxiv, p. 

 34) and quite recently Mr. G. C. Shortridge obtained a specimen at 

 Banlavv, north of Mergui ( Wrougliton, Journ. Bombay N. U. Soc, 

 xxiii, p. 708 ; 1915 ) : the present example therefore extends the range 

 some 600 miles down the Peninsula. 



1 have seen no topotypes of P. nudipes and the only obvious 

 justification for separating the Patani specimen rests on the smaller feet 

 of the latter ( 7.1 ai^ainst 8.0 mm.): but it is improbable that »!.i/(?i^5e« 



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