18/4.] SIR V. BROOKE ON THE GENUS CERVULUS. 41 



Cervulus reevesi. (Plate IX.) 



1838. Cervus reevesi, Ogilby, P. Z. S. p. 105. 



18G2. Cervulus reevesi, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. p. 361. 



1870. Cervulus reevesi, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. p. 644. 



1873. Cervulus reevesi, Gray, Hand-list Rum. Mamm. p. 165. 



Anterior parts of the face below the eyes brown ; between the eyes 

 the hair becomes more scanty, strong black lines running from each 

 frontal gland up the inside of the horn-pedestals. Upper parts of 

 the forehead become gradually rufous from the mixture of red hairs, 

 the rufous becoming more intense on the occiput and ending in a 

 strongly denned line between the ears. Posterior of neck, back, 

 and sides grizzly rufous, a line running down the centre of the neck 

 and back aud forearms bluish brown. Cheeks, throat, belly, and 

 upper surface of tail rufous. Chin and under surface of tail "white. 

 Fawn without spots. 



Fig. 5. 



Skull of Cervulus reevesi. 



Skull. Depression for the reception of the suborbital gland, of 

 immense size, modifying all the surrounding bones, and giving the 

 parts of the skull anterior to the orbits a compressed appearance 

 from above downwards, the floor of the suborbital fossa being much 

 flattened and pulled out laterally. The pedestals of the frontal 

 bones, in all the specimens examined by me, much more parallel 

 than in the two other species. Frontal supraorbital ridges very 

 strongly developed. Parts anterior to the suborbital gland com- 

 pressed from side to side and very short, 



Height scarcely 13" at the shoulder. 



Hab. Southern China, from the latitude of Canton, as far north 

 as Ningpo ; Formosa. 



Females hornless. Canines in the males long, pulp-cavity non-per- 

 sistent. Suborbital fossa deep, anteorbital vacuity small. Tarsus with 

 the navicular, cuboid, external, and middle cuneiform bones united. 

 Phalanges of second and fifth metacarpals and metatarsals absent. 



The figure (Plate IX.) is taken from a specimen living in the So- 

 ciety's Gardens since August 1867. See Rev. Cat. Vert. p. 109. 



P.S. (Feb. 27). — Since reading this paper I have seen the type of 

 Cervulus lacrymans, figured and described by M. Alphonse Milne- 

 Edwards in his ' Recherches pour servir a l'Histoire Naturelle des 



