Mr. F. P. Pascoe on new CurcuUonidce. 409 



gradual passage of the upper into the lower colour, and by 

 its larger size. 



4. Mus infraluteus^ sp. n. 



Size large. Fur coarse and harsh, but not spinous. 

 General colour dark greyish brown, the tips of the shorter 

 hairs with a silvery lustre. The longer straighter hairs 

 numerous, not markedly lengthened on the rump, uniformly 

 black. Under surface a dirty yellowish brown, the tips of 

 the straighter hairs dull orange, their bases and the whole of 

 the underfur slaty grey. Hands and feet brown. Tail 

 rather shorter than the head and body, thinly haired, dark 

 brown or black above and below ; rings of scales averaging 

 about eight or nine to the centimetre. Skull and teeth large 

 and powerful. 



Dimensions : — Head and body (c.) 285 millira. ; tail (ex- 

 treme tip wanting) 235 ; hind foot 51. 



Skull : tip of nasals to lambda 51 ; nasals, length 21*8 ; 

 interorbital breadth 8'8 ; infraorbital foramen, length of outer 

 wall 7 ; palate, length 32 ; anterior palatine foramen 8*4 ; 

 length of upper molar series 10"7. 



Hob. Mount Kina Balu, North Borneo [Mr. J. White- 

 head). 



LV. — Descriptions of some new Genera and Species of Cur- 

 cuUonidm^ mostly Asiatic. — Part V. By Fkancis P. 

 Pascoe, F.L.S. &c. 



BBACHYDEKINiE. ? MeTATYGIN^. 



Eupholus cinnamomeus. Zantes, n. g. 



limbatus. 



HyLOBIINJE. 



Ithypobin^. 



Hylobius Pipitzii, 



distinctus. Misynus, n. g. 



dissimiUs. 



Balaninin^. Desmidophorus lauosus. 



maculatus. 



Pimelata, n. g. funebris. 



maculata. morbosus. 



Alcidinje. Tylodin^. 



)onariua. Poropterus a: 



s. basilisci 



gallarius. irritus. 



Alcides carbonariua. Poropterus afHictus. 

 obtusus. basiliscus. 



