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164 Mr. O. Thomas on a new Species of Ehurus. 
parietal bones not expanded. Zygomatic plate not projected 
forwards. Bullee small. 
Molars complex, cuspidate, quite unlike the simply lami- 
nate molars of Phleomys and more like those of a gigantic 
Mus. 
Type Phlaomys Schadenbergi, Meyer, of which Mr. White- 
head has sent several specimens. 
Dr. Meyer had for description only a skin without skull 
from Mount Data, and it speaks much for his acuteness that 
the skulls sent by Mr. Whitehead so fully bear out his sugges- 
tion as to the probable generic distinction of “Phlaomys , 
Schadenbergi from P. Cumingii. | 
That the animals sent by Dr. Schadenberg and Mr, White- 
head are the same is shown conclusively by some photographs 
of the type and its feet kindly prepared and sent to me by 
Dr. Meyer. 
tf XXIIT.—On a new Species of Kliurus. 
: By OLpFIELD ‘THOMAS. 
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AMONG a collection of Madagascar animals received from 
Dr. C. I. Forsyth Major, the eminent paleontologist, there 
occurs a specimen belonging to the interesting genus Liiurus, 
but representing a second species of it. It may be called 
Eliurus Majort, sp. n. 
Size about as in FZ. myoxinus, but the tail is decidedly 
longer and much less bushy. Instead of being clothed with 
hairs comparable to those of Platacanthomys *, this organ is 
scarcely more long-haired than in Rhipidomys and many other 
climbing rats, nor is there the least trace of a distichous 
arrangement of the hairs. Fur very soft. General colour 
grey; an indistinct ring round the eyes, the ears, meta- 
podials, and the whole of the tail, including the terminal 
pencil, blackish brown. Under surface dirty whitish, the 
bases of the hairs slate-coloured ; line of demarcation on sides 
not sharply marked. Fifth hind toe reaching to end of 
second phalanx of fourth. 
Dimensions of the type, an adult male in skin :— 
Head and body (c.) 155 millim.; tail (vertebra cn sdtu) 
153 ; hind foot (moistened) 27; ear from notch 16°6. 
Skull: basal length 30:6; greatest length 362; greatest 
* See Milne-Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat. (6) xx., article 1 bis (1885). 
