THE AXNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL UISTORY. 



[SIXTH SERIES.] 

 No. 65. MAY 1893. 



LVI. — On some new Bornean Mammalia. 

 By Oldfield Thomas. 



The British Museum has recently received from Mr. Alfred 

 Everett a further considerable consignment of small mammals 

 from Sarawak and North Borneo, and in working- them out 

 in conjunction with others received of late years from the 

 same region the following species prove to need description : — 



Cynopterus viaculatus^ sp. n. 



Size very small, the smallest of the genus. Muzzle with 

 its central groove almost obsolete. Ears small, oval, laid 

 forward they barely reach to the posterior corner of the eye ; 

 their tip rounded ; their outer base with a distinct rounded 

 lobe, as in C. hrachysoma ; their colour black, but with a 

 distinct white or yellowish spot on the centre of their inner 

 margin. Thumb involved in membrane for half its length. 

 Calcar and interfemoral membrane fairly well developed. 

 Tail wholly absent. Palate with about twelve simple ridges, 

 the anterior ones much curved, the posterior two or three 

 directly transverse. 



Fur above thinly covering the membranes near the body 

 and the base of the forearm, but not extending on the tibiae, 

 although the backs of the feet are fairly well clothed. 

 Colour of fur above sooty grey, paler, with a tinge of 

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