FIFTY-ONE NEW MALAYAN MAMMALS 



By GERRIT S. MILLER, Jr. 



Under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution Mr. H. C. 

 Raven has been engaged, during the past eighteen months, in col- 

 lecting specimens of the vertebrates of Dutch Southeast Borneo. I lis 

 explorations are made possible by the generosity of Dr. \Y. L. Ab- 

 bott. Identification of the mammals included in the first shipment 

 of material has led me to the re-examination of the related parts of 

 the collections previously made by Dr. Abbott himself elsewhere 

 in the Malay region. This work has resulted in the detection of the 

 fifty-one new forms here described. 



PARADOXURUS PARVUS, new species 



1903. Paradoxurus hermaphrodites Miller, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., vol. 26, 

 p. 471. February 3, 1903. (Not of Pallas.) 



Type. — Adult male (skin and skull), No. 114175, United Stales 

 National Museum. Collected on Simalur Island, off coast of west 

 Sumatra, December 15, 1901, by Dr. W. L. Abbott. Original No. 



I385- 



Diagnosis. — Like Paradoxurus hermaphroditus hermaphroditus 

 of the Sumatran mainland, but smaller ; condylobasal length of sknll 

 in male with well developed sagittal crest 100.2 mm., as compared 

 with 106.2 and 106.4 m two males of similar age from Aru Bay; 

 condylobasal length of skull in female with basal suture closed 96.0, 

 as compared with 107.3 an0 " 107.5 m two of similar age from Aru 

 Bay, and 104 and 108.6 in two from Siak River. 



Measurements. — Type: head and body, 485 mm.; tail. 300; hind 

 foot (dry), 71 (70) ; condylobasal length of skull 1 basal suture visi- 

 ble, teeth moderately worn), 100.2 (96.0) ; J zygomatic breadth, 59.6 



(53.8) ; breadth of braincase, 31.6 (32.0) ; interorbital breadth, [6.5 

 (15.2) ; breadth of rostrum over canines. [9.5 1 17.X ) ; mandible. 74.0 



(70.9) ; maxillary toothrow exclusive of incisors, 37.(1 1 37.8 1 : man- 

 dibular toothrow exclusive of incisors, 42.3 ( 42.0). 



Specimens examined. — Six. all from Simalur tsland. 



1 Cranial measurements in parenthesis are those of a female /'. hermaphro- 

 ditus (No. 11417-') of same age as the type. 



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