5V)0 PROCEEDINGH OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxxir. 



1839-1864. H{ystrix'\ macroura, Blainville, Osteog. Mamm., IV, pi. ir. 



1841. Acanthion macroura III, Gervais, Voyage autour du IMonde sur la Bonite, 



pp. 60-63, Atlas, pi. xi. 

 1848. AtJierura fasdculata, Waterhouse, Nat. Hist. Mamm., II, p. 470. 

 1854. Allierurus macrouriis, Gervais, Hist. Nat. Mamm., p. 333. 

 1876. Altherura'] fasciculata, Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1876, p. 742. 

 1879. II[ystrix'] fasciculata, Jentink, Notes, Leyden Museum, I, 1879, p. 87. 

 1894. Tridtys fasciculata, Jentink, Notes, Leyden Museum, XVI, 1894, p. 205. 

 1900. TricJiyii lipura, Bonhote, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1900, p. 881. 



Distribution. — Malay Peninsula. 



Reinarl's. — I have seen no specimens of this species which has usu- 

 ally ])ecn considered synonymous with the Bornean TricJii/s lipurd. 

 Because of the general distinctness of mannnals of the Malay Peninsula 

 and those from Borneo, that view does not appear prol)abIe, and, 

 both animals having" l)een named, those names are here retained. It 

 is possil)le, on the other hand, that the Sumatran TrichyH rnacrotis 

 may be very close to the Mala}' Peninsula animal. 



TRICHYS LIPURA Gunther. 



1876. Trirltys Upura (tunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1876, p. 739; fig. 2, p. 



740; fig. 2a, p. 741; pi. lxxi. Type-locality: Borneo, opposite Island of 



Labuan, see p. 424 of the foregoing reference. 

 1889. Triclii/s Upura, Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1889, p. 75. 

 1889. TricJiys guentheri Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1889, p. 235. A new 



name proposed for T. Upura, because the animal normally possesses a tail. 



1893. Trichyn Upura, Hose, Mammals of Borneo, p. 61. 



1894. TricJii/s fasciculata, Jentink, Notes, Leyden Museum, XVI, 1894, p. 20S. 

 1903. Trirhys fasciculata. Miller, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXVI, p. 469. 



1905. IVichys fasciculata, Willink, Natuurkundig Tijdschrift Nederlandsch- 

 Indie, LXV,.p. 267. 



Distrih ution . — Borneo. 



Color. — General color above a sort of drab-brown. The bases of 

 the spines are whitish, which is the general color of the underparts 

 owing to absence of drab-brown tips of th(! spines. On the sides the 

 color gradually passes from the almost complete dra])-brown of the 

 upper parts to the whitish of the Ijelly. 



Skull and teeth.. — These are well figured by (xiinther," and need no 

 detailed description here. 



Buff on' s Pore-epic de Malaca, I think he is in error in saying that the genus Trichys 

 is not known in Malacca, for it seems to have been clearly recorded from the Malay 

 Peninsula by Bonhote (Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1900, p. 881) and by Jentink (Notes 

 Leyden Museum, XVI, 1894, p. 207). If Ili/stri.v fasciculata Shaw is a synonym of 

 Ihjstrix iiKtcronra Linna-us, the S{)ecies of Trichys on the Malay Peninsula (if it is 

 distinct from the Horncan and Sumatran animals, as is probable) has not yet received 

 a valid name. Having seen no sjiecimens of Trichyi^ from the Malay Peninsula, I 

 cun not venture to state whether it is distinct from the two species already named or 

 with which one it should be associated. Accordingly 1 have left the matter standing 

 as oriainally written, but with this explanation. 

 «Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1876, pp. 740 and 741. 



