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4. Markings about as in decoratus, but less conspicuously con- 

 trasted, owing to the general body colour being darker and duller, 

 more olive brown, undersurface and tips of tail hairs yellowish. 

 Size rather larger than in other forms. Muzzle of skull unusually 

 slender. M. h. moerescens, subsp. n. 



Annam. — Type from Bali near Nha-trang. 



5. No median dorsal stripes or iipper dark lateral ones, the only 

 dark streak being that between the light lateral streaks and even 

 this is absent in January and February. Undersurface yellowish 

 white. M. h. consularis, subsp. n. 



Siam north of Bangkok. Type from Nan. 200 m. 

 Three specimens from Myawadi and Kaukaryit, E. of Moulmein, 

 seem also to belong here, but as they were killed in January and 

 February, and might possibly represent an " eclipse pelage " of M. 

 h. herdmorei, their determination must still remain a little doubtful. 

 These are the specimens referred to by Blanford (J. A. S. B., 

 XLVII, p. 162, 1878) who recorded their differences from, herdmorei, 

 but assigned them to mouhoti, to which they do not seem to have 

 any greater resemblance. 



Measurements and other details of types of new subspecies : — 

 Menetes herdmorei decoratus. 



Head and body, 188 mm; tail 175 ; hindfoot 43*5 ; ear 21. 

 SJcull. — Greatest length 49; zygomatic breadth 26-3; palatilar 

 length 23 ; front of p* to back of m' 9. 

 Hah.— Mt. Popa, up to about 4,000'. 



Type. — Adult female. B. M. No. 14.4.3.4. . Original number 

 3844. Collected, 20th September 1913, by G. 0. Shortridge. 

 Presented by the Bombay Natural History Society. Thirty speci- 

 mens obtained. 

 M. h. consularis. 



Head and body 179 mm ; tail 151 ; hindfoot 40 ; ear 21. Skull, 

 greatest length (c) 49 ; zygomatic breadth 25*5 ; palatilar length 

 23 ; mp* and three molars 8-4. 



Type. — Immature female, B.M. No. 2.6.6.6. Original number 

 159. Collected, 6th October 1901, and presented by Th. H. Lyle, 

 Esq. About a dozen specimens examined, mostly presented by Mr. 

 Lyle. 



M. h. moerescens. 

 Hindfoot 41 mm. 



Skull. — (Immature) greatest length 51 ; zygomatic breadth 28, 

 palatilar length 22-2 ; mp* and three molars 9-6. 



Type. — Immature female. B. M. No. 6.11.6.32. Original number 

 38. Collected at Bali near Nha-trang, Annam, by Dr. J. Vassal. 



This animal may hereafter prove to be specifically distinct from 

 the other forms by its large skull and long narrow muzzle, but 

 without fully adult specimens this point cannot be finally settled. 



