MAMMALS OK BOR.VEO. 3I 



TUPAIA SPLENDIDULA. 



Tiipaia splendidida^ Gray, P.Z.S., 1865, p. 322, pi. xii. 



The tail of this animal is less than the length of the body 

 and head, and is blackish chestnut, and in strong contrast to 

 the tail of Tiipaia fcrruginea^ which is, so to speak, of a 

 blackish olive, while the tail of Tupaia tana may either be 

 rich chestnut rump. Dr. Gray describes the species as 

 follows : — 



" Fur, dark brown, blackish washed. Tail, dark red- 

 " brown, pale red beneath, longer than the body and head ; the 

 " shoulder streak yellow ; no bands between the shoulders. 

 " The head conical, about twice as long as wide behind." 



The head is large, compared with th t size of the body ; 

 the ears rounded, with several ridges on the conch, and a well 

 developed convex tragus, not unlike the human ear. 



Hab. (type of species) (Low), Borneo. 



TUPAIA PICTA. 



Tupaia picta, Thomas. Ann. Mag. N.H. (6) ix. p. 251, 

 1892. 



Rather smaller than Tupaia fcrruginea ; more heavily 

 built than T. dorsalis. General colour of back, olive grey, 

 coarsely grizzled with yellowish ; more rufous posteriorly. 

 Centre of back with a distinct dorsal stripe extending from 

 the withers to the rump, the stripe better defined than in 

 Tupaia montana^ but neither so long nor so sharply defined as 

 in Tupaia dorsalis. Head, hands and feet, dull grizzled olive ; 

 sides, dark rufous ; a distinct shoulder stripe present. Under 

 side grey, the hairs washed terminally with yellow ; chin and 

 chest, rich yellow or orange. Tail, broad and bushy, evenly 

 distichous, its hairs above basally mixed red and black, at the 

 tip and below, brilliant chestnut rufous. Skull much as in 

 Tupaia fcmiginea^ but the zygomatic vacuity reduced to a 

 long narrow slit about 4*5 millim. long, and only about i 

 millim. high. Teeth also not materially different from those 

 of Txipaia fcrruginca. 



Dimensions of type. — Head and body, 185 millim ; tail, 

 162 ; hind foot, 42-5. Skull : basal length, 45 ; greatest 

 breadth, 26"3 ; nasal tip to front edge of orbit, 21. 



This handsome species is readil}' distinguished from 

 Tupaia ferruginca and Tupaia splcndidida by its duller body 

 colour, and the presence of a black dorsal stripe ; from Tupaia 

 tana by its smaller size and shorter muzzle ; from Tupaia 

 dorsalis by its less defined line, bushier tail and heavier teeth ; 

 and from Tupaia mnntana^ described above, by its brilliantly 

 riifous tciil and coarsely grizzled back, 



