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breadth 5*7 ; interparietal, length 5"2, breadth 9'6 ; length of 

 anterior zjgoma-root 4; palate length 17'8; diastema 9"8; 

 length of upper molar-series 4-7 ; breadth of "hJ: 1*4 ; breadth 

 of palate inside --i (c.) 3'3. 



Hah. Ankober River, Wasa, Ashantee. 



The type specimen (B. M. 82. 6. 12. 5) of this beautiful 

 and interesting little species was obtained by the well-known 

 explorers Capt. (later Sir Eiciiard) Burton (after whom 1 have 

 named it) and Lieut. V. Lovett Cameron, during an expe- 

 dition to the Gold Coast in 1882, 



The only species with which the present one could be con- 

 founded is Miis evT/throleucus, Temm., and that only because 

 its mamn)ary formula and detailed characters have not hitherto 

 been published. Thanks, however, to the kindness of 

 Dr. Jentink, of the Leyden Museum, I have had the oppor- 

 tunity of examining the type and of directly comparing its 

 skull with some of the Museum specimens. This type I have 

 been able to match in every respect with some spirit speci- 

 mens from Akropong, on the Gold Goast, presented to us by 

 Prof. Kutimeyer in 1886. These show that M. erythroleucus 

 is one of the multimammate species allied to M. natalensis, 

 coucha, &c., and that it has, as is indeed shown by the type 

 itself, a hallux which falls far short of the base of the second 

 toe and a fifth hind toe that only just attains to the base of 

 the fourth ; the tail also is slightly shorter than the head and 

 body. 



XX. — On the Japanese Cleridce. 

 By G. Lewis, F.L.S. 



The list of species in the family Cleridge I am able to give 

 from Japan is not a long one, and it seems probable that my 

 acquisitions in the family exhibit my collection in its weakest 

 part. Some of the species obtained were apparently very 

 local, and only three of the genera, leaving out Necrohia^ con- 

 tain more than one species; and this is a condition of things not 

 likely to be maintained in any tropical or subtropical fauna. 

 There is evidence also that the abodes of some of the species 

 are in the highest branches of the decaying forest-trees, wiiose 

 leafless and partly barkless limbs stretch out above the foliage 

 of the accessible brushwood. These of course are diflicult to 

 obtain, and it is only the detached single examples froui such 

 places that the collector fortuitously sweeps into a net from 

 the lower foliage. 



