508 MU. "W. H. DE WINTON ON SOME C-A-pr. 21, 



1. PuDTTA MEPflisTOPniLEs, sp. n. (Plate XIX.) 



The hair of the body is long and coarse, its basal portion 

 peculiarly brittle and pitb-like ; the terminal half is black with 

 ferruginous tips, producing a rich brown colour. The dorsal 

 region is darker than the flanks, owing to the hairs having broader 

 black bands with correspondingly reduced coloured tips; on the 

 neck the tips are paler and longer, the black being much reduced, 

 which gives a tawny appearance; towards the head the black 

 again increases, tiU the shorter hairs of the ears, face, and chin 

 are almost black. The ears are thickly covered inside and out 

 with hair, that on the inside being broadly tipped with white. 

 The fore and hind-feet are black, most of the hairs being 

 minutely tipped with buff ; the inner sides of the legs and the 

 abdomen are clotlied with long yellowish hair of a liner and more 

 ordinary character. There is no turn in the hair of the face, the 

 hair growing upwards from the nose. The ears are very short 

 and partially concealed by the rough hair. The rhinarium from 

 the nostrils down is deep. Tail entirely wanting. 



Measurements from skin (type § juv. no. 96, i. 28. 3, in 

 Brit. Mus.) : — 



Height at withers, about 320 millim. 



Length of hind foot (without hoof) . . 130 „ 

 „ ear 63 „ 



With the measurements of the skull 1 give tliose of the adult 

 female described by Bennelt, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 27, lor comparison, 

 so far as it is possible, the basal portion of the skull being 

 unfortunately damaged. 



Table of Measurements. 



P. mephido. p ^,^^.;^ 

 p/iues. 



Greatest length, in straight line [points of millim. millim. 



p.mx. to base] ". 160 — 



Greatest breadth [across zygomatic process 



of squamosal] 75 61 



Nasals, greatest length 41 40 



breadth 22 16-5 



Points of premaxillae to end of nasals .... 27 28 



Bre:idth of autenarial opening 16 14 



Point of premaxilla to imterior rim of orbit 72 64 



Autorbital fossa, breadth 10 8 



„ „ length 15 14 



Basifacial length 102 — 



Basicranial „ 39 — 



Length of molar series 50 45 



Distance between p.ms.^ 23 19-5 



ms.i 29 28-5 



ms.a 34 27 



Front of molar series to point of premaxilla 46-5 38-5 



Palatal incisive foramina, length 19 20 



„ „ „ breadth 12 10 



Mandibles missing. 



