NO. lOSO. INSIECTIVOREf^ OF THE GEl^US GYMNURA—LYON. 45^ 



b. Co]oi' black with some white on head and shoulders, size medium or small, 

 hindfoot GS-iJS mm., basal length of skull (ii-lS—Gymnura gymnura, p. 4r,i 

 «/ Size medium ; hindfoot, 61-68 mm. ; basal length of skull 71-78. 



G. g. gymnura, ]>. 4.51 

 &." Size small ; hindfoot 58-5!) mm. ; basal length of skull 67-71. 



G. g. minor, \). 4.53 

 GYMNURA GYMNURA (Raffles). 



Diag)u>stic characters. — Size small or inediuin; hindfoot r)8-()8 

 mm. ; basal length of skull Gl-78 ; color generally black, with white 

 markings on head. See fig. 3, Plate 34. 



Color. — Cieneral color black or blackish, except lips, chin, cheeks, 

 an irregidar V-shaped patch on top of head, and terminal fourth 

 or more of tail white or whitish. About the shoulders and on 

 upper back are numerous long hairs with long white or whitish 

 tips. Similar hairs, but much shorter, occur on the throat. 



Pelage. — The pelage is composed of two kinds of hairs, short 

 (10-15 nun.) soft underfur of a dull blackish, brownish or dark 

 drab-gray color, except about lips and cheeks, where it is white or 

 Avhitish ; and long, coarse, bristly hair, 50-GO mm. in length uniformly 

 black in color, except in the region of the light markings about head 

 and shoulders, where the long hairs are white throughout their 

 extent or else have long white tips. About the head the long hairs 

 are much shorter than over the rest of the body. On the under- 

 parts the long hairs are relatively few, soft, and short. 



Tail. — The tail is covered with small scales about 10 to the centi- 

 meter, each scale subtended by about 3 hairs. On the dorsal surface 

 of the tail the hairs are inconspicuous and a little longer than a 

 scale in length; on the underside they are more conspicuous and 

 equal 3 or 4 scales in length. 



Distribution. — Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra. 



Remarlcs. — This species is separable into two distinct races, a 

 smaller one from Tenasserim, and Trong, Lower Siam, described 

 below as new, and the typical race found on the lower end of the 

 Malay Peninsula and on Sumatra. 



GYMNURA GYMNURA GYMNURA (Raffles). 



1822. Viverra gymnura Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, XIII, p. 272. (Type- 

 locality, probably Bencoolen, Sumatra.) 



1827. Gymnura rafflesU Lesson, Man. Mamm., p. 171. (May 1827. See Pal- 

 mer, North Amer. Fauna, no. 23, 1904, p. 304.) 



1827. Gymnura rafflcffii, Horsfield and Vigors, Zool. Journ.. Ill, p. 248, pi. yiii. 

 (October, 1827. See Palmer, North Amer. Fauna, no. 23, 1904, p. 304.) 



Diagnostic characters. — A large race of Gijmnura gymnura., hind 

 foot, 61-68 ; basal length of skull, 71-78. 



Color. — As described above under G. gymnura. 



