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Size and fur as in argentescens. General colour above pale 

 ' cream buff' on the flanks, the saddle near ' mars brown' (in- 

 dividual hairs ' cinnamon' with dark bases and tips, mixed with quite 

 a large proportion of longer black hairs), the five longitudinal 

 stripes white, Yevy slightly tinged with buff, the lateral pair scarcely 

 distinguishable on the pale flank. Face drab. Hands and feet buffy 

 white like the dorsal stripes. Below white, the hairs white to their 

 bases. Tail also pale buffy white, each hair with two black rings, 

 the one near the base, the other sabterminal broader. 



Dimensions: — Head and body, 140; tail, 141; hindfoot, 85; 

 ear, 17. Skull : — Greatest length, 38; basilar length, 28; zygo- 

 matic breadth, 21; interorbital breadth, 105; length of nasals, 

 10*5; diastema, 8; length of upper tooth row, 7. 



Habitat. — Deesa, Palanpur. 



%J6.— Adult female. B. M. No. 13.9.18.105. Original num- 

 ber 3138, collected by Mr. C. A. Crump, on the 29th April, 1913. 

 Presented to the National Collection by the Bombay Natural His- 

 tory Society. 



The specimens from Deesa and several other places in the Palan- 

 pur State are all fairly tj^pical, those however from Mt. Abu (4,300 

 feet) are darker and more richly coloured. This form ranges south 

 as far as the northern part of Kathiawar, but thereafter the specimens 

 grow darker in increasingly large numbers, and commence to show 

 a passage to true i^ennanti. 



