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cutting away the hair at the tips of the digits. The inter- 

 digital web extends up to the proximal ends of the digital 

 pads and, like the underside of the digit, is clothed with short 

 hair except close to the pad, where the skin is nearly naked 

 and gives off short streaks along the proximal portion of the 

 four main digits. The pollex and hallux are short, their small 

 digital pad being set almost on a level with the posterior 

 angle of the internal lateral lobe of the plantar pad. 

 Attached to this posterior angle in the fore foot is a large 

 ovate pollical lobe (pL). The main portion of the carpal 

 pad (c.) is large, cordate or ovate. On its inner side is a 

 small supplementary lobe, from which a naked strip of skin 

 extends up to the pollical lobe. The hallucal lobe (hi.) on the 

 hind foot is much smaller than the pollical lobe, and is separated 

 by a space at least equalling its own diameter from the 

 nearest point of the plantar pad, a narrow strip of naked 

 skin passing between the two. 



The feet of the example of L. maculosus, from Tenasserim, 

 differ in one or two small particulars from those described 

 above. In the fore foot the points of contact between the 

 lateral and median lobes of the plantar pad are a little 

 shorter, the internal lateral lobe is longer and is separated by 

 a deeper constriction from the smaller pollical lobe, and 

 the carpal pad is not connected with the pollical lobe by a 

 naked strip of skin. In the hind foot, on the other hand, the 

 hallucal lobe is closer to the posterior angle of the internal 

 lateral lobe of the plantar pad, and the median lobe of this 

 pad projects nearly as far backwards as the posterior angle 

 of the external lateral lobe. 



The feet of an unnamed species, figured by Mivart 

 (P. Z. S. 1882, p. 158), agree on the whole with those of 

 L. maculosus above described ; but those of L. pirdicolor, 

 depicted by Hodgson (Calc. Journ. Sci. viii. pi. i. 1847), are 

 distinguished by having both the pollical and hallucal lobes 

 quite small (no larger, indeed, than the digital lobes of those 

 digits), and separated by a space about equalling their own 

 diameter from the plantar pad, and this space appears to be 

 entirely overgrown with hair. Blanford, indeed (Mamm. 

 Brit. India, p. 102, 1888), mentions this as a feature dis- 

 tinguishing L. pardicolvr from L. inaculosus. Hodgson, 

 however, had previously given a figure of the hind foot of 

 L. pardicoJor (Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. ii. pi. i. 1842) ; and 

 this differs from the later illustration, taken from a different 

 specimen, not only in the shape of the plantar pad, but in 

 the greater proximity of the hallucal lobe to the nearest point 

 of the plantar pad. These differences may be due to errors 



