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of the body, neither of them presenting any worn appearance or bare 

 spot on the hinder part of the back. 



A young female specimen which has a flat forehead is of a nearly 

 uniform dark brown colour ; it has three nearly continuous, pale ash- 

 coloured, longitudinal lines, which are formed of more or less separate, 

 oblong, elongated spots, and has a series of more obscure spots between 

 them, which are larger and more distinct upon the underside of the 

 belly ; the side of the head and upper part of the neck, from the back 

 edge of the eye, including the base of the ear, and the whole of the 

 underside of the head, is ashy white, varied with brown hairs ; the 

 upper edge and the base of the outer edge of ears and lips white. 

 The hinder part of the back in all the specimens is covered with hair 

 like the rest of the animal. 



Hnb. Ecuador, on the Cordilleras at Sunia and Asuay. 



The skull of this species agrees very well with the figures that De 

 Blainville gives of the skulls brought home and presented to the Paris 

 Museum of the Tapir Pinchaque, figured as Tapir us pinchacus in 

 Blainville's 'Osteographie;' but the description given by these authors 

 of the external appearance of the adult and young of that species is so 

 different from the specimens brought from Ecuador by Mr. Buckley 

 that I am induced to regard them as a new species, quite different 

 from the T. pinchacus of Columbia or New Granada. 



The lower jaw of the old and young specimens of T. leucogengs 

 brought by Mr. Buckley differs from the figure of the specimens 

 brought by M. Roulin in the upper part of the hinder edge, which 

 is more prominent than the lower part, which is most produced in 

 Blainville's figure. They much better agree with Blainville's figure 

 of the skull brought by M. Goudot, but have the upper a little more 

 produced. The difference between the two skulls of Blainville may 

 only be that of varieties. 



I may observe the necks of the skins appear to be as much crested 

 as that of Tapirus terrestris, and the brown hairs of the body with 

 minute grey tips ; the whole underside of the head, the cheeks, and 

 sides of the temples are greyish white, which appear to be darker 

 than the rest of the head in M. Roulin' s figure. 



One of the specimens brought by Mr. Buckley from Sunia, a male, 

 had the hair longer and softer than the rest, but did not otherwise 

 differ. 



The adult female said to be the mother of the young specimen 

 called T. cenigmaticus has very distinct white borders to the ends of 

 the ears, and the whole of the hinder part and underside of the head 

 is greyish black, the pale cheeks and throat not being so distinctly 

 marked and defined as in the other specimens. This may be the 

 character of the adult female ; but the grey cheek in the younger 

 female is quite as defined as in the male. The front of the face and 

 the top of the head are considerably darker than the cheeks, very 

 unlike the figure of the Pinchaque. 



In this specimen the hair on the hinder part of the back is shorter 

 and more sparse, and there are two elongated irregular patches, which 

 have the hair more or less worn off, separated from each other by a 



