On new Miunniala front llie Malaij Peninsula. 223 



inner margin lobed before middle and excised towards 

 toruus, witli scale-teetli before middle and at tornus ; 

 veins 3 and 5 Irom near angle of cell ; 6 from below upper 

 angle ; 7 iiom augle ; 8,9, 10 stalked from before angle; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins '6, 4 sliortl}' stalked; 

 5 fully developed from just above angle of cell ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



XIX. — On new Mammals, mainly from Bandon and the 

 adjacent Islands, East Coast of the Malay Peninsula. 

 By Herbert C. Robinson, C.M.Z.S., and C. Boden 

 Kloss, F.Z.S. 



The following new races of mammals were obtained in the 

 course of a collecting-expedition to the N.E. coast of the 

 JNIalay Peninsula in the Siamese province of Bandon and 

 the neighbouring islands of the Koh Samui and Koh Pennan, 

 lying between latitude 9°N. and 10° N., roughly ,'iOO miles 

 south of Bangkok, Those not actually obtained in these 

 localities have come to light in the course of working out 

 the collections. 



Petaurista nitida cicur, subsp. n. 



Tijpe. — Adult male (skin and skull), No. 58/13, Federated 

 Malay States Museum, collected at Ban Kok Klap, Bandon, 

 N E. Malay Peninsula, 2nd July, 1913, by H. C. Bobiuson 

 and E. Seimund. Original no. ;")(>] 4. 



Characters. — A member of the Petaurista nitida ''^ section, 

 more closely allied to the islaiul forms of the species (P. n. 

 nilida from Java, P. n. rajah from Borneo, and P. n. marcfiio 

 from Sumatra) than to the South Malayan race {P. n. mela- 

 notus), from wliieh it dill'ers in its chestnut, not bay, pelage 

 and the marked dark ti].'S to the hairs of the back. 



Colour. — Above rich (;hestuut, the head considerably i)aler, 

 all the hairs of the upper surface, except those of the head, 

 tipped with blaek ; muzzle, a broad orbital ring, entire 

 inner surface and })ostcrior half of outer surface of ears, and 

 a large patch behind them black. Black of hands and feet 

 extending beyond the wrists and ankles. Margin of ante- 

 brachial nieuibiane broadly black, this colour extending, to 

 a diminishing extent, halfway up the tail. Distal half of 



* ThuniJi.s Ann. .^ Mag. Xiil. Hist. (Sj i. pp. 200-2 (1906;. 



