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almost naked. Body clothed with hair of two kinds, the under- 

 fur soft and woolly, the longer hairs coarse bristles. Claws curved, 

 not retractile. 



ykull very long and narrow, third upper premolar much larger 

 than the second, and hanng three roots. 



Vertebra? : C. 7, D. 15, L. 5, S. 3, C. 28. 



Colour. Partly white, partly black, the distribution of the two 

 colours being somewhat variable ; generally the head and neck are 

 white, with the exception of a black patch above and in front of 

 each eye, and often a variable proportion of black bristles is mixed 

 with the white of the crown. The anterior portion of the back 

 is clad with mixed white and black hairs, the proportion varying, 

 the underfur being blackish. On the hinder back, sides, limbs, and 

 lower parts the longer hairs are generally black, but in one speci- 

 men from Tenasserim there was a line of white, down the middle 

 of the breast and belly. Some Burmese specimens are entirely 

 white. The woolly underfur is dusky olivaceous at the base on 

 the upper parts, ashy on the lower, brownish or sooty black at 

 the tips. Terminal portion of tail usually white. 



Dirnemions of a Tenasserim female. Head and body 12 inches, 

 tail 8*5, ear 1, hhid foot without claws 2-15, extreme length of 

 skull 2*8. But Sumatran, and especially Bornean, specimens are 

 considerably larger, the head and body measuring over 14 inches ; 

 skull 3 to 3*5 in length, and 1*6 across the zygomatic arches. 



DistrUmtion. The Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. 

 Found in the extreme south ot Tenasserim at Bankasun by Mr. 

 Davison. The occurrence of this species in Mergui had already 

 been shown to be probable by Mr. Blyth (see J. A. S. B. xliv, pt. 2, 

 extra number, p. 32). 



Habits. Very little is known. The species is purely nocturnal, 

 and lives under the roots of trees. The contents of the stomach 

 show that the food consists of insects, amongst which BlatUc, ter- 

 mites, and various forms of larva? are especially common. The 

 animal has a peculiar offensive smell, not musky, rather alliaceous, 

 described to me by Mr. Davison as resembling Irish stew that 

 had sone bad. 



110. Gymnura suilla. The smaller Gi/iunura. 



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Fig. 58, — Gijmnui-a sidlla. (Anderson, An. Zool. Kes. pi. vi.) 



Hvlorays suillus, Millie)' Sf Schleg. Verhaiull. Mam. p. lo-'!, pi. xxv, 

 tigs. 4-7, pi. xxvi, fig. 1 (183t)-44) ; Blyth, Mam. Birds Burma, p. 32. 



