new Asiatic Maridje. 207 



length of nasals 11; interorbital breadth 5'5 ; breadth of 

 brain-case 14-8 ; palatilar length 15; diastema 9*8; palatal 

 foramina 5 ; length of upper molar series 4"9. 



ffab. Mt. Kina Balu, N. Borneo. Type from "above 

 Pinokok." 



T^pe. Adult male. B.M. no. 93. 4. 1. 21. Collected 

 October 1892 by A. Everett. 



This is the largest Chiropodomys yet discovered. It 

 differs from its ally Ch, major by its larger size, longer 

 tail, and longer palatal foratnina. The abbreviation of the 

 nasals anteriorly is also worthy of note, the same character 

 occurring in the next species, while the nasals of Ch. major 

 are as in ordinary Murines. 



Chiropodomys pictor, sp. n. 



Rather smaller than Ch. major. 



Size about as much smaller than in Ch. major as it is 

 larger in Ch. legatus. Fur soft and close; hairs of back 

 about 6 mm. in length. General colour above greyish fawn, 

 rather paler on tiie sides. Under surface pure sharply defined 

 creamy white. Eyes with dark rings. Ears brown. Hands 

 and feet silvery whitish, a narrow dark patch along the 

 middle of the metatarsals. Tail uniformly dark brown as 

 usual; heavily tufted terminally. 



Skull with broad rounded brain-case, much bowed in upper 

 profile. Nasals not reaching forward to the level of gnathion. 

 Palatal foramina short. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in skin) : — 



Head and body (c.) 120 mm.; tail 120; hind foot (wet) 

 20-5; ear (wet) 16. 



Skull : tip of nasals to front corner of interparietal 24*5 ; 

 henselion to basilar suture I8'6 ; zygomatic breadth 16*5; 

 length of nasals 8*8 ; interorbital breadth 5"3 ; breadth of 

 brain-case ]4; palatilar length 12'8 ; diastema 8'2 ; palatine 

 foramina 3"7 ; upper molar series 4. 



A perfect skull taken trom a spirit-specimen is 27*6 mm. 

 in total length; basilar length 21*7. 



Hab. Mt. Kina Balu, N. Borneo. 



Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 94, 7. 2. 43. Collected 

 January 1894 by A. Everett. 



HiEEOMYS, gen. nov. 



Like Chiropodomys in shape of skull and prehensile 

 character of feet, but the molars of the general Mus-Epimys 



