190 



Remarks. — This species is very different from Tupaia ferrufjinea, 

 Kaff., T. pidonli<, Miller,* and T. sordida, Miller,t all members of the 

 ferr lujin ea group. 



lu some examples the tail is much greyer thau the back but never 

 attains the dark colour of the other Peninsular tree-shrews. The type 

 specimen has almost entirely renewed its coat but traces of the old 

 pelage are to be seen on the back in the form of mingled ochraceous and 

 black patches, contrasting with the buffy annulations of the fresh hairs : 

 the lemon wash on the lower- surface occurs in a few individuals only, 

 the predominating colour below being cream-buff to deep buff. 



The short skull and dull pelage of this animal ally it with the 

 distant T. helaugerl of Burmah and markedly distinguish it from 

 T. ferruginea, its nearest geographical neighbour. 



TUPAIA (rERRIGIXEA) LONGICAVDA. 



Kloss, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vii., p. 117, 1911. 



Type.— Adult female (skin and skull). No. 2296/10, Selangor 

 Museum, collected on East Perhentian Island, oft' Trengganu, east 

 coast of the Malay Peninsula, 8th September, 1910, by C. Boden Kloss. 

 Original No. 3517. 



Charactees. — Resembles T. femiglnea from Singapore and the 

 Malay Peninsula, but has the tail almost always longer than head and 

 body and therefore much longer than the tail of T. femiyinea : further, 

 differs in being lighter and less rufous above and distinctly yellower 

 below, lacking the greyish tone of T. ferruginea, in having the feet 

 and tail paler, the latter l)eing very yellow below and above buff and 

 black, instead of buff-white and black and in the spread of the buffy 

 colom' of the throat up the sides of the neck and Ijehind the ear to 

 meet the shoulder-stripe. 



In the colour of its dorsal pelage it closely resembles T. f. ivilkiti- 

 soni from Trang, but in other respects differs from this as it does from 

 Singapore individuals. 



From T. sordida, Miller, of Tioman Island, it differs in being paler 

 above through possessing less of the black element, in having the 

 under-parts and under-surface of tail l)iiffy instead of greyish and also 

 in longer tail and larger shoulder-stripe. 



Colour. — Top of muzzle and head, fore- and hind-feet, finely 

 speckled black and buff, the fore-feet rather lighter ; remaining upper- 

 parts mingled black and ochraceous bixt paler on the sides, the rump 

 tinged with tawny but Ijecoming blackish above the base of the tail. 

 Below, buff"- white to birff', the margins of the abdomen similar in colour 

 to the sides of the body but much paler and not annidated. I'rom the 

 tliroat the buff colour extends over the sides of the neclv to ])ehiud the 

 ears and forms a well-defined stripe on the upper parts of the shoulders. 

 Tail a grizzle of black and pale butt", nuich paler below, where the short 

 hairs clothing the vertebrae are pure pale buff. 



* " Smithsoiiiaii Miscellaneous Collections," No. 45, Nov. 1903, j), 56. 

 t " Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences," vol. ii, Aug. 1900, 

 p. 231. 



