426 DR. A. GUNTHER ON BORNEAN MAMMALS. [May 16, 



2. Tupaia ELLIOTI (Waterh.). 



This species has always remarkably short and rigid hair * ; and the 

 vacuity in the zygomatic arch is reduced to a small foramen. I have 

 seen three examples of this species, viz. : — the type, from the hills west 

 of Madras ; a second, found by Capt. R. C. Beavan near Maunbhoom 

 (Bengal Pres.) ; and the third, brought by Major Lloyd from the 

 Matheran hills near Bombay, which is the westernmost limit of the 

 genus hitherto ascertained. 



3. Tupaia belangeri (Wagn.). 



Distinguished from the preceding by its much longer and softer 

 fur. The foramen in the zygomatic arch is small, yet larger 

 than in T. ellioti. Hitherto found in Burma, Upper Pegu, and 

 Sikkim. The name given by Wagner is the first technical de- 

 signation of this species, which in Belanger's ' Voyage ' is described 

 and figured as "Tupaia du Pegou." Jerdon (' Mamm. of India,' 

 p. 65) used the name Tupaia peyuana, Lesson ; however, the author 

 of the account of the Mammalia in Belanger's ' Voyage ' was not 

 Lesson, but Is. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire. 



B. Small species. 



4. Tupaia javanica (Horsf.) 



Found in Java and in the Dutch possessions of Sumatra and Bor- 

 neo. Distinct as this species is from T. ferrvyinea, young examples 

 of the latter can hardly be externally distinguished from T. javanica ; 

 and one of the specimens examined and named T. javanica by Hors- 

 field is clearly the young of the larger species, as is proved by its 

 undeveloped dentition. A fully adult example from Java, also named 

 by Horsfield, is 13 inches long, the tail taking very nearly one half. 

 For comparison's sake with the following species, I give the measure- 

 ments of the four posterior molar teeth of this example : 



Length. Width, 



millim. millim. 



a. Molar 2-0 20 



b. Molar 30 30 



e. Molar 25 3-5 



d. Molar 1-5 30 



5. Tupaia minor, sp. n. 



Closely allied to T. javanica, but conspicuously smaller and with 

 much shorter and rather rigid hair. All the hairs of the upper parts 

 are grizzled with grey, brownish grey, and black, a reddish brown 

 tinge prevailing in the middle of the hinder half of the back and on 

 the tail ; extremity of the tail black. Shoulder-stripe distinct. 

 Lower parts yellowish white, of the tail brownish yellow. With the 

 exception of the terminal hairs, the hairs of the tail are rather short. 

 Length of body 5 inches 4 lines, of tail 6 inches 2 lines. 



* To judge from one example, the fur is soft and much longer at ;i veryyoung 

 age. 



