1876.] MR. A. H. GARROD ON LOPHOTKAGUS M ICHIANUS. 759 



The hair is coarse and slightly quill-like. In the Moupin specimens 

 it is of two kinds as regards general coloration — all in front of a ver- 

 tical line drawn through the shoulder-joint, with the exceptions to he 

 mentioned below, being whitish at the base, and gradually becoming 

 dark-brown towards the tip, quite close to which there is a distinctly 

 marked narrow white ring. This white ring near the extremity of 

 each hair gives a speckled appearance to the parts covered with it. 



Over all the body behind the above-mentioned line this white ring- 

 is absent ; and each hair, from being white at the root, gradually 

 darkens to become of a rich brown at the tip, over the sides and 

 back of the animal, more pronounced along the middle line — at the 

 same time that, whilst deepening iu intensity down the legs, below 

 the carpus and tarsus the colour is almost black itself, as are the 

 hoofs. In the female figured by M. Milne-Edwards, which is of a 

 more rufous tint generally than the pair of skins lent by him to me, 

 there is, as is sometimes the case in Cervulus reevesi, a white line just 

 above the hoofs. 



The under surface of the tail is white, as is also the hair in the 

 pudendal region. 



Much resembling, though more developed than in the females 

 and the young males of the genus Cervulus, there is a crest of 

 lengthy deep-brown, almost black hair arranged in a horse-shoe 

 shape in the frontal region. It is anteriorly that the crest is deficient, 

 the short speckled hair of the nose extending backwards, at the same 

 time that it lengthens, to enter the interior of the enclosure thus 

 formed. This crest is slightly prolonged between the ears as a 

 pointed process, with the equally dark hair of the base of the 

 exterior of which it does not blend, a narrow speckled isthmus 

 intervening. M. Milne-Edwards tells us* that the interior of the 

 ears is whitish, and that the tips of these organs, as well as the 

 greater part of their inner edge, are of a nearly pure white. A trans- 

 verse black bar extends across the inner surface of the ear, about 

 three quarters of an inch broad. Along the lateral margin of the 

 outside of the horse-shoe crest the short hair forms a light grey line 

 in front of the eye, becoming reddish brown behind it. The long 

 hair of the crest itself is directed backwards. 



In the young male specimen from the hills near Ningpo which 

 forms the subject of the present paper, the only hair which is ringed 

 is situated in the front of the base of each ear, occupying an 

 extremely small area. Elsewhere the chocolate-brown of the Moupin 

 examples is replaced by greyish-black, each hair being white for a 

 considerable distance from its base. The face and neck are there- 

 fore not speckled or brown, but uniformly dark grey. The head is 

 figured, as it appeared immediately after death, in the accompanying 

 drawing (Plate LXXVL). 



The skull of the Ningpo Elaphodus cannot be said to differ essen- 

 tially from the Moupin specimens. Although there are exquisite 

 figures in the ' Recherches pour servir a l'histoire Naturelle des Mam- 

 miferes' f of the skull of the adult male, M. Milne-Edwards has most 

 * hoc. cit. p. 355. t Alias, pis. iii> & C>7. 



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