NEW PHILirPINE MAMMALS— MEARNS. 



457 



(Cat. No. 125243, U. S. N. M., from the same locality, June 26, 1904), 

 just emerged from the gray juvenile pelage, has the uppcrparts sepia 

 brown, much mixed with black, and the underparts smoke gray with 

 a cinnamon-white area in the middle of the chest. The tail to the 

 unaided e3'e appears naked, l)ut is covered throughout with dow^ny 

 hairs. This, like the remaining specimens of this species, has the tip 

 of the tail white. 



Skull and teeth. — Braincase inflated; upper profile of skull straight 

 and slightly declining anteriorly, ver}^ strongly arched posteriorly; 

 audital bullae rounded and very high; rostrum slender, elongate; nasals 

 greatly expanded anteriorly, sharply compressed in the middle, thence 

 tapering to a slender point ending, at base, opposite the fronto- 

 maxillary suture. 



Cranial measuremenls of the tape, (in adult funale, from Mount Apo, Mindanao. 



Measurement. 



Basilar length ( Honscl ) 



Occipito-nasal leiiKth 



Int(_Tfiariftal tireadth 



Iiiterorliital lireadth , 



Length of internasal suture , 



Length of upper molar. series 



Antero-pcsterior diameter of aiirlital bulla 



No. 125246, 



U.S.N.M., 



type. 



22.3 



31 



14 



5 

 11.5 



5.9 



4 



Measureriunitii of five specimens from Mount Apo, Mindanao. 



a Adult female. 



li Adult male. 



' Knd of tail gone. 



Sj^ecunens e.mmhwd. — Eight, 2 skins with skulls and (3 males 

 and 3 females) in alcohol, all from Mount Apo, .southern Mindanao. 

 Four came from the altitude of 6,000 feet and 4 from 6,750 feet. 



Reriim'Ji's. — Paler-colored feet and ears distinguish this species from 

 the largest Ap<>iiiy.'<. The soles of the feet are flesh colored instead of 

 purplish slate. The feet are broader, with larger tubercles, espe- 

 cially as to the two postero-internal ones. 



