490 DR. J. E. GRAY ON A NEW TAPIR. [Mar. 5, 



narrow hairy band, very unlike the round naked spots in the figure 

 of the Pinchaque. 



Tapirus leucogenys, jun., or T. ^enigmaticus. (Plate XXII. 

 fig. I.) 



Fur rather soft, abundant, and rather woolly, dark blackish brown, 

 with grey tips to the hairs, which are more abundant on the sides of 

 the face and front of the body. Back pale-spotted; the spots on 

 the middle of the back small, oblong, forming two interrupted straight 

 lines ; the spots on the upper side of the back more elongate, and 

 forming a rather curved line, terminating before it reaches the 

 haunches. The shoulders, hams, sides of the body, thighs, and rump 

 marked with irregularly disposed white spots, some of which are more 

 or less perpendicular ; those on the hinder part of the body and 

 thighs larger and more elongate, and irregularly disposed ; the lower 

 part of the legs spotless, blackish brown. The upper lip, the gullet, 

 lower part of the cheeks, throat, and chest white, varied with small, 

 darker spots. The upper edge and base of the outer sides of the ears 

 white. 



Hah. Sunia, on the upper parts of the Cordilleras. 



Mr. Buckley declares that this young specimen was obtained along 

 with its mother, an adult female of the Grey-cheeked Tapir, from 

 Sunia. This was secured because it would not leave its young ; and 

 therefore they were more easily caught. If there is not some mistake 

 in this account, which one can hardly doubt, it must be the young of 

 that species ; but it is so exceedingly different that I think it better to 

 give it a provisional name, as the difference between the young and the 

 rather older specimen of this species is so great that I do not believe 

 such has ever been observed in any group of species of Mammalia. 



Thus, for example : — 



1 . The temple and cheeks are brown like the rest of the body ; 

 whereas in the half-grown but spotted specimen they are, including 

 the ears, as in the adult, pale whitish. 



2. The back has two straight lines of spots ; sides with an upper 

 series of spots, forming a rather irregular line from the back of the 

 shoulders to the front of the haunches, and very numerous spots 

 which are placed below the lines in irregular series, and placed in 

 very different directions ; the fore legs have an irregular perpendicular 

 stripe above, and the hind legs are marked with irregularly disposed 

 oblong spots ; whereas in the half-grown grey-cheeked specimen they 

 are brown, with only three series of spots on each side, forming more 

 or less irregular lines, the second one from the top being most irregu- 

 lar, the two upper ones being continued over the thighs towards the 

 rump. 



3. The upper lip, the whole underside of the head and throat, the 

 lower part of the side of the head, and the whole chest white, more 

 or less clouded with brown spots ; whereas in the young with stripes, 

 and the adult T. leucogenys, the white of the cheeks only extends to 

 the back of the under part of the head ; the throat, underside of neck, 

 and the chest are brown like the rest of the animal. 



