322 DR. J. E. GRAY ON A NEW TUPAIA. (Mar. 28, 
yellow, slender, rounder in front. Unfortunately I have not been 
able to see the skull. 
If this is a true Erethizon, the genus may be divided into two 
sections :— : 
1. Erethizon. The back covered with elongated bristles and 
short spines. . dorsatus and FE. epivanthus. 
2. Echinoprocta. The back covered with one kind of elongated 
slender spines, which become shorter, thicker, and more rigid over 
the rump. J£. rufescens. - 
3. Notice or A Species oF TupaiA FROM BORNEO, IN THE 
CoLLECTION OF THE British Museum. By Dr. Joun 
Epwarp Gray, F.R.S., F.L.S., erc. 
(Plate XII.) 
There has been in the British Museum for some years a specimen 
of a Tupaia in spirits, which was received from Borneo, and also a 
stuffed specimen without a habitat, evidently of the same species. 
These specimens have the general coloration of Tupaia tana, and 
have evidently been regarded as varieties of that species; but they 
are most distinct. The head and skull are short and broad, of about 
the same form and proportion as those of Tupaia ferruginea; the 
fur and tail is of the same bright shining bay as T. tana, but it is 
entirely destitute of the three black streaks between the shoulders, 
which is so well marked in that species. 
The skull shows that the stuffed specimen is that of an adult 
animal not so large as 7’. tana, and more nearly resembling in size 
T. ferruginea. It may be known at once from the latter species by 
the dark red-brown colour of the tail, with its very red underside. 
I propose to call it 
TUPAIA SPLENDIDULA. (PI. XII.) 
Fur dark red-brown, blackish-washed. Tail dark red-brown ; 
pale red beneath; the shoulder-streak yellow. The head conical, 
about twice as long as wide behind. 
Hab. Borneo. 
The head is large compared with the size of the body; the ears 
rounded, with several ridges on the conch, and a well-developed con- 
vex tragus, not unlike the human ear. The palm and soles are bald 
to the wrist and heel. 
I thought at first that this species might be the Tupaca speciosa of 
Wagner; but that animal is stated to have a head as long and as 
tapering as 7’. tana, and, indeed, seems to be only a slight variety of 
that species. 
The figures of the animal hitherto published, having been taken 
chiefly from stuffed specimens, do not show these peculiarities, which 
are to be observed in the specimen from Borneo preserved in spirits. 
