132 CATALOGUE. 



On the continent of Asia one species has been discovered during 

 Belanger's Voyage, &c., the Tupaia du Pegou of M. Is. Geoffroy ; the 

 T. peguana, Lesson ; T. Belangeri, Wagner. The T. (Cladobates) 

 speciosa of Wagner, is, according to the statements of MM. Miiller 

 and Schlegel, a mere variety of Tupaia tana. 



This interesting genus of Sorecine mammalia has been discovered 

 since the commencement of the present century. The first public 

 notice of it is due to the zeal of Sir T. S. Raffles, who, soon after 

 assuming the government of Fort Maryborough, in Sumatra, commenced 

 a general research into the natural history of the Indian Archipelago, 

 embracing all departments. In the class of mammalia he engaged the 

 assistance of MM. Diard and Duvaucel, who accompanied him, during 

 part of the years 1819 and 1820, in his official voyages, during one of 

 which the Tupaia ferruginea was discovered, respecting which SirT. S. 

 Raffles states : " This singular little animal was first observed tame in 

 the house of a gentleman at Penang, and afterwards found wild at 

 Singapore and in the woods near Bencoolen, where it lives on the fruit 

 of the Kayo gadis, &c." (Descriptive Catalogue of a Zoological Col- 

 lection made on account of the Hon. East- India Company, in the 

 island of Sumatra and its vicinity, under the direction of Sir Thomas 

 Stamford Raffles, Lieut. -Gov. of Fort Marlborough. Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. XIII. p. 239, &c. Read December 5th, 1820.) 



By desire of Sir T. S. Raffles, a description of this animal was 

 prepared, early in the year 1820, by MM. Diard and Duvaucel, which 

 he presented to his friend Major- General Thomas Hardwicke, to be 

 disposed of at the pleasure of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and which 

 was published in the fourteenth volume of the Asiatic Researches, 

 p. 471, &c. Fort William, February, 1820.* 



The Tupaia javanica was discovered some years before the T. ferru- 

 ginea, but no public notice was given of it until the publication 

 of the Zoological Researches in Java, in 1821, where it is stated : 

 " The Bangsring (Tupaia javanica) fell under my observation during 

 an early period of my researches in Java. In traversing the province 

 of Blambangan, in the year 1806, 1 discovered it in the extensive forests 

 which cover almost entirely the eastern extremity of the island. 



* This description is entitled, " Notice. Sur une nouvelle espece de Sorex 

 Sorex Glis (D.D.). (Asiatic Researches, XIV. p. 473.) " Pendant la duree de 

 nos sejours a Pulo Penang et Sincapore, nous avons plusieurs fois tue dans les bois 

 un petit quadrujiede, que nous primes d'abord pour un ecureuil, mais que nous 

 reconnumes bientot, en 1'examwant, appartenir a la famille des Insectivores," &c. 



