NO. 1402. NEW PHILIPPINE MAMMALS— MEAENS. 435 



Sj>ecirnens e.mmined. — Three (.skins und skulls), all found clinoinj>- 

 to midrib of cocoanut-tree leaves, on Cagayan Sulu Island, Philippine 

 Islands, near the west side of the Sulu Sea, February 25, 1*J0-I. 



UROGALE, new genus. 



round-tailp:d tupaias. 



Type. — Urogale cylindrui'a., new species. 



Characters. — Size large; feet and claws relatively large; tail short- 

 haired and cylindrical. Braincase narrow and elongate; zygomatic 

 vacuities obsolete; rostrum produced, enlarged, and greatly swollen 

 for the accommodation of enormous second incisors; second upper 

 incisor caniniform; third lower incisor minute and erect; lower canines 

 enormous. 



UROGALE CYLINDRURA, new species. 

 MOUNT APO ROUND-TAILED TUPAIA. 



TaJiv'-rdJi B<th^-boo-e>j (Bagobo name, meaning (iround-Pig). 



Tt/pe.~Adn\t male (skin and skull), Cat. No. 125287, U.S.N.M. 

 Collected on Mount Apo at the Bagobo village of Toda3^a, altitude 

 4,000 feet, southern Mindanao, Philippine Islands, July 12, 1904, by 

 Edgar A. Mearns. (Original number, 5727.) 



Characters. — Those of the genus. Similar to Urogale everetti 

 (Thomas), but slightly larger and darker and diti'erent in color. 



Color. — Entire upperparts blackish seal brown, variegated by mi- 

 nute tawny-ochraceous annuli to the hairs; a very indistinct fer- 

 ruginous stripe over each shoulder; underparts broadly tawny-ochra- 

 ceous in the median line, this color gradually merging into that of the 

 upperparts; feet clove brown; tail colored like the back above, largely 

 mixed with ferruginous l)elow; naked skin of ears, surrounding eyes, 

 snout, and under surface of feet dusk}^ purplish; iris dark brown. 



Sl'uU and teetJi. — Skull flattened above, and straight, backward to 

 the junction of the parietal ridges, then sharply decurved posteriorly; 

 orbital ring slender posteriorly; occipital crest and ridges very prom- 

 inent; l)raincase and postpalatal notch narrow; teeth as in Uroyale 

 everetti (Thomas). 



