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2. The Oriental Species. 

 In Funamhulus palmarum the glans is long, subcylinclrical 

 proximally, swollen and spongy in texture distally, and terminates 

 in a longish, narrow, attenuated process, slightly or considerably 

 inclined upwards and rising from the dorsal extremity of the 

 swollen portion. The orifice lies at the base of this process at 

 the right side. The baculum is a simple curved rod, concave on its 

 upper side, convex below and tolerably gradually attenuated from 

 the thick base to the narrow apex, which reaches to the extremity 

 of the above-described terminal process of the glans. The 



Text-fiffure 19. 



A. Baculum of Sciurus (Parasciurus) nic/er, from the left side. 



B. Apex of the same from the right side. 



C. Baculum of Pt-otoxevus stangeri, from the left side. 



D. Baculum of Funisoiuriis congicus, from below, with the soft dried 



shrivelled tip of glans adherent. 



E. The same of Paraxerus eepapi, with the tip of glans removed. 



F. The same from the left side. 



<3urvature varies apparently individually. The bone measures 

 10*5 mm. — that is to say, it is actually as long in this small 

 Squirrel as in the giant Ratufa. (Text-figs. 18, C ; 20, D.) 



In Tamiodes (gen, no v.) tristriatus, regarded by Blanford as 

 possibly nothing but a local race of palmantm, the glans is very 

 different. It is relatively shorter and thicker, and ends in 

 two well-marked subequal labia, one above and one below the 

 terminal orifice. The upper labium is unmodified ; but the lower 

 which has its inferior edge inclined upwards, is subdivided into a 

 number of subordinate labia by deep lateral clefts, which are 



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