1889.] MAMMALS OF KINA BALU. 229 



2. Cynopterus ecaudatxjs, Temm. 



a. 3000 feet. 29/3/88. 



Previously only known from Sumatra. This species may be 

 readily distinguished from the somewhat similar C. lucasi, Dobs. \ 

 by its rather smaller size, by not possessing any trace of a tail, and by 

 the attachment of its wing-membrane to the distal third of the first 

 phalanx of the hallux instead of to its base. 



3. TUPAIA FERRUGINEA, Raffl. 



a-b. 3000 feet. 3/87. 

 c. 8000 feet. 5/2/88. 



4. Hylomys suillus DORSALis, Thos. Ann. Mag. N. H, (6) 

 ii. p. 407(1888). 



a. d . 8000 feet. 2/88. Ti/pe of var. 



b. S . 8000 feet. 9/2/88. 



c. 3000 feet. 21/3/88. 



Essential characters as in the typical variety, but with a more or 

 less distinct black line running from between the eyes down the neck 

 to the middle of the back. 



Dimensions: — Head and body (c.) 116 millim.; tail 16; hind 

 foot 25. 



Since all the five or six specimens of Hylomys obtained on Kina 

 Balu show a black dorsal line, sometimes, it is true, faint and in- 

 distinct, but always present, I believe this to be a valid geographical 

 race, characteristic at least of Mount Kina Balu, if not of the whole 

 of Borneo, whence, up to the present, no other specimens have been 

 obtained. It should be stated, however, that Dr. F. A. Jentink, of 

 the Leyden Museum, where the type of H. suillus is preserved, 

 believes it to be not worthy of separation from that animal ; but as 

 he is inclined to give, in certain other allied groups, rather less im- 

 portance to the presence or absence of a dorsal streak than appears 

 to me correct, I do not as yet feel disposed definitely to withdraw 

 the merely varietal name already given to the Kina Balu Hylomys. 



The true Hylomys suillushas been recorded from Burma, the 

 Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Java. 



5. Chimarrogale himalayica, Gray. 

 a. Ad. sk. 



The occurrence of this fine Water-Shrew on Mount Kina Balu 

 is a most interesting fact, and affords a remarkable instance of the 

 relation that the fauna of the mountainous regions of the INIalay 

 islands bears to that of the Himalayas. The species has previously 

 only been recoi'ded from Sikhim, Assam, and the Katchin Hills iu 

 the North of Burma. The Bornean specimen is rather smaller than 

 the type, its hind foot measuring only 20 millim. in length as against 

 22"5, but is otherwise identical; this difference in size is very 

 probably only sexual. 



1 Anu. Mag. N. H. (5) vi. p. 163 (1880). 

 Proc. Zool. Soc— 1889, No. XVI. 16 



