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Mr. R. T. Pocock on some of the External 



powerful claws. The claws are retractile in the sense that 

 the terminal phalanx can be withdrawn along the outer side 

 of the penultimate phalanx, but there are no lobes of skin 

 constituting protective sheaths to the claws thus retracted. 

 Although the webs extend at least up to the proximal ends 

 of the digital pads, the digits are capable of considerable 



Fig. 2. 





A B 



A. Left fore font with digits spread, pi., pollical lobe of plantar pad; 



c, double carpal pad ; v., carpal vibrissas. 



B. Left liind foot with digits partially spread, hi,, hallucal lobe of 



plantar pad ; int., double metatarsal pads. 



and subequal distension. The webs are quite naked beneath. 

 Tiie poUex is comparatively long. The plantar pad is 

 (juadrilobate, but the pollical lobe, set behind the postero- 

 internal angle of the internal lateral lobe, is relatively to 



