330 PBOF. R. COLLETT 0>' MAMMALS [Mar. 16, 



lihinarium very narrow, the height beiug nearly double its 

 breadth. 



Pupil vertical. 



Claws short, rather blimt, almost hidden by the hairs. 



COLOUE, 



General colouring resembling that of P. pererjrinus. 



The hack is grizzled grey with more or less reddish hue, all the 

 longer hairs having white tips. The rump more rufous. 



Head grey. A whitish spot (sometimes indistinct) above and 

 below the eye. A median dark line, more or less conspicuous, 

 extends from between the eyes to the occiput ; in some specimens 

 this line is continued (very indistinctly) along the middle of the 

 back. 



Ears with a small patch of white on the lower part of their 

 posterior border. Yibrissse black. 



Tail rufous like the rump, the white-tipped hairs here being 

 scarcer. The thin hairs on the tip are sometimes blackish. 



Lower parts from chin to tail whitish ; a rust}^ spot on the 

 middle of the chest. Lower part of the tail reddish, like the upper, 

 only a little clearer. 



Legs coloured above like the back, below whitish ; hairy covering 

 of the claws in some specimens blackish. 



A half-c/rown specimen is coloured like the adult ; the white tips 

 of the hairs less conspicuous, and the rusty spot on the chest 

 hardly visible. 



SSELETON. 



Limbs short and strong. 



Femur broadly expanded in its iipper part ; its length not ex- 

 ceeding that of the pelvis, or even shorter. 



Fibula also broadly expanded above, its greatest breadth at its 

 upper extremity being more than that of tibia. 



Tibia and Jibula greatly bowed and diverging. 



Humeni.s also comparatively broad at its upper and lower 

 extremities ; ulna and radius rather diverging in the middle. 



Os sacrum formed by three vertebrae, the transverse processes of 

 which are all coalescent. 



Caudal vertebra-. The number is in one specimen 23, in another 

 24, besides a rudimentarj^ one in the tip, together 24-25. 



!Sk;vll. 



Small in proportion to the body. Its length in the largest 

 specimen 72 mm., the breadth 43 mm. 



Muzzle very slender and pointed (even narrower than in Bactylo- 

 jysila trivirgata), not swollen. 



Kasals narrow, rather flattened above, reaching to about the 

 level of t\ and but little expanded behind ; the naso-frontal angle 

 ^■e^y deep, bifid, the points reaching the vertical from the middle 

 of m^. Length of the suture from maxillan to sutura frontalis 



