302 Mr. 0. Thomas on Miimmals from 



Dimensions of the type (measure] in the flesh) : — 



Head and body 846 mm. ; hind foot 164 ; ear 34. 



Skull * : greatest length 127 ; basal length 93*5 ; condylo- 

 basal length 103 ; zygomatic breadth 89 ; nasal opening 

 21 X 14 ; external orbital breadth 71*5 ; intertemporal breadth 

 43*5; mastoid breadth 77; front of canine to back of m 3 

 41-2. 



Hab. Malay Peninsula. Type from the Semangko Pass, 

 Selangor-Pahang Boundary ; alt. 3000'. 



Type. Old male. B.M. no. 8. 7. 20. 1. Original number 

 564. Collected 26 January, 1908, by Mr. H. C. Robinson. 



Galeopterus. 



The receipt of a fine series of the Javan Galeopterus 

 presented to the Museum by Mr. W. E. Balston, the loan of 

 the typical skull of G. undatus, Wagner, from the Munich 

 Museum, and the receipt of the Malay Galeopteri from 

 Mr. Robinson have afforded me the opportunity of re-examin- 

 ing the members of this genus occurring in the Malay 

 Peninsula, Java, and Borneo. 



In the first place, I find that the Javan species, which I 

 provisionally called G. undatus in my previous paper, may 

 bear the name of G. variegatus, Geoff., on the ground that 

 although no definite locality was given in the original 

 description, nor in that by Desmarest in 1820, yet the animal 

 was so distinctly stated to be from Java in Geoffroy's 1829 

 paper that, in the absence of any discordant character, this 

 may be accepted as fixing the type locality. The fact that 

 such fixing was done by the original author himself may be 

 taken as indicating that he had received evidence as to the 

 locality of his species, or even that he had found out the true 

 locality of his original type specimen. 



Under these circumstances I propose to accept the name of 

 G. variegatus for the Javan species. 



In a general way this species is characterized by its com- 

 paratively dark colour, large size, large teeth, and the almost 

 entire absence of sexual difference in size. The skulls before 

 me are ten in number, all fully adult, besides some young 

 ones, aud they are all remarkably uniform in size, 75-76 mm. 

 in condylo-basal length, this range including seven males 

 and the largest female ; while one female is only 72 mm. in 



* These measures may be compared with those of an adult male skull 

 of syndactylus given by Mr. xMiller, Smiths. Misc. Coll. xlv. p. 70 (1903), 

 remembering that Mr. Miller's " basal length " is what is now known as 

 condylo-basal length, and his " basilar length " as basal length. 



