On the Palawan Representative ri/'Tupaia femiginea. 367 



XLII. — On the Palairon Representntive of Tu])a\a, femiginea. 

 By Oldfield Tuomas. 



The Britisli i\Iiiscnm lias received from Mr. A. Everett some 

 Tupaia skins from Palawan, and these, although apparently- 

 referable to the species T. ferrugtnea, Raff., are sufficiently 

 different from T . fcrrxiqinea typicaio demand subspecific sepa- 

 ration. The Borneaii representative of T. ferruginea has 

 already * been found to be distinct from the typical Suraatran 

 one ; but, curiously enough, that from Palawan, an island 

 very closely connected faunistically with Borneo, docs not 

 show any special apj)roximation to the peculiar long-footed 

 form there found. 



Tupaia ferruginea palawanensis^ subsp. n. 



Similar in size, proportions, and general characters to the 

 typical variety, not long-footed as in subsp. hngipes. General 

 colour above darker brown (bistre, Ridgioay). Ears, fingers, 

 and toes blackish. Tail bushy, the terminal halves of the 

 hairs deep shining black, which makes the tail when viewed 

 from above appear wholly of this colour ; their basal halves, 

 most visible from below, annulated with black and orange. 

 Under surface yellowish olive (approximately " tawny olive " 

 of Ridgway) , brighter and clearer on the chest. 



Skull very similar to that of Raffles's type specimen of 

 ferruginea, but the muzzle is somewhat narrower, the orbits 

 smaller, and the frontal profile more flattened. 



Dimensions of the type, an adult skin, ^ (B. M. 94. 2. 

 1. .^) :- 



Head and body 208 millim., tail 177, hind foot 43-2. 



Skull : basal length 47 ; greatest breadth 26'6 ; nasals, 

 length 15"6, interorbital breadth 15, intertemporal breadth 16; 

 palate, length 28*7, breadth outside ^ 16*3, inside ^ 8'4; 

 front of Li to back of "^ 28. 



Hob. Palawan. Coll. A. Everett. 



In a young specimen, apparently of the same subspecies, 

 collected in Palawan by ^Ir. E. L. Moseley during the Steere 

 .expedition to the Philijjpines (B. M. 91. 11. 28. 1), the tail, 

 so characteristically black in the adults, is finely freckled 

 with orange above as well as below. There is also a very 

 faint and inconspicuous amount of the same freckling in an 

 adult female example. 



* T. ferruginea longipes, Thos. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, (6) xi. p. 343 

 (1893). 



