1905. ] MAMMALS AND BIRDS FROM JAPAN. =). 
MUusTELA MELAMPUS BEDFORDI Thos.* 
Thos. Abstr. P. Z. 8S. No. 21, p. 10, June 13, 1905. 
Size as in true melampus, or slightly larger. General colour 
above, in winter pelage, near “ isabella,” but rather darker and with 
an olivaceous tone, nearer to the yellowish brown of MM. m. 
isuensis * than to the golden yellow of melampus. Wool-hairs 
of back brown at base, then dark yellowish. Long hairs brown. 
Muzzle dark chocolate-brown, passing backwards, on the crown, 
into silvery greyish. Ears whitish both externally and internally. 
Nape more yellow than back. Sides of neck brilliantly yellow 
(* deep chrome ”), sharply contrasted with the upper colour along 
a line halfway up the neck, and in continuation with the deep 
orange ochraceous of the chest-patch. Lips pale brown, lighter 
than the top of the muzzle; sharply defined from the whitish 
interramia, which in turn passes without line of demarcation 
into the orange of the throat and chest. Belly brown, not unlike 
back, the throat-patch extending to the sternum and continued in 
some specimens as an irregular line of spots to the inguinal region. 
Limbs deep brownish black from halfway down the forearms and 
on the hind feet. Tail pale brown for the greater part of its 
length, the wnderfur dull yellowish as on the body ; tip sharply 
contrasted yellowish or cream-colour, forming a conspicuous 
terminal tuft. 
Skull as in ésuensis, slightly larger than in melampus so far as 
material for comparison existed, 
Dimensions of the type, measured in the flesh :—Head and body 
425 mm.; tail 220; hind foot 87; ear 40. 
Skull—greatest length 84; basal length 75; zygomatic breadth 
48; interorbital breadth 20; mastoid breadth 37°5; palatal length 
42; length of upper p* on outer edge 9°5, 
Hab. Washikaguchi, Nava District, E. of Osaka, Southern 
Central Hondo, Japan. 
Type. Adult male. B.M. No, 5.5.30.3. Original number 123. 
Collected 13 January 1905 by Malcolm P. Anderson, and pre- 
sented by the Duke of Bedford. Four specimens. 
This very handsome Marten is conspicuously different from 
the yellowish M. melampus, and is curiously more similar in 
general colour to the I. m. tswensis of the Tsu-shima Islands. 
From both, however, it is readily distinguished by its brilliant 
yellowish throat and neck patches and its contrasted tail-tip. 
Mr. R. I. Pocock, F.L.S., the Superintendent of the Gardens, 
exhibited a female specimen of the Jamaican Scorpion, Cenirurus 
* [The complete account of the new species described’ in this communication 
appears here ; but since the name and preliminary diagnosis were published in the 
‘ Abstract,’ the species is distinguished by the name being underlined.—EpD1To0R. | 
+ Thos, Ann. Mag. N. H. (6) xix. p. 161 (1897). 
