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Ami. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 8, vol. vii. p. 635, 1911), but it also 

 exactly resembles externally a specimen from the State of Perils, 

 in the Malay Peninsula, and others from islands north of 

 Penang. The skull is too young for comparison. 



7. Paradoxurus minor kuiensis, subsp. n. 



Type. Adult male (skin and skull), No. 1749/C.B.K. B.M. 

 No. 15.11.4.39. Collected on Koh Kut Id., S.E. Siam, 27th 

 December, 1914. 



Characters. — A race of P. minor Bonhote (' Fasciculi Malay- 

 enses,' Zoology, Part 1, p. 9, 1903), characterised by blacker 

 (less brownish) muzzle, crown, tail, and extremities, less fulvous 

 fur above, paler nape and chest, the latter concolorous with the 

 rest of the buffy abdomen, by the great breadth across the 

 zygomata, and by smaller bullae. 



Colour. — Muzzle, chin and throat, top of head and ears, distal 

 half of fore and hind limbs extending higher on under surfa.ce, 

 and greater part of tail brownish black. Five black stripes or 

 rows of spots on the back and a few on the flanks, the inner 

 three extending on to the base of the tail aiul becoming somewhat 

 broken and irregular on the shoulders, which, with the neck, are 

 somewhat clouded with blackish. A few black spots on sides 

 and thighs. General ground-colour of the body, extending to the 

 throat below and over the neck above, pale smoke-grey, slightly 

 tinged with buff on the rump and thighs. A broad whitish 

 band from above the eyes passes below the ears to the sides of 

 the neck, but is interrupted on the forehead, where the black 

 area of the muzzle is connected with that of the crown. Base of 

 tail pale fulvous clouded with longer black-tipped hairs. 



Skidl and Teeth. — The skull agrees with those of P. minor, 

 from Peninsular Siam, but is rather larger, the zygomatic 

 breadth in particular being greater. The bullae, on the other 

 hand, are considerably smaller. The teeth also are in general 

 agreement, but there is a greater deflection in the maxillaiy row- 

 owing to the fact that the posterior cusp of m^ is placed much 

 nearer the centre of that tooth. 



lUeasurements *. — External measurements, taken in the flesh : 

 total length, 480 (460) mm. ; tail, 420 (450) ; hind foot, 74 (64) ; 

 ear, 40 (39). Skull : greatest length, 101 (96) ; basal length, 90 ; 

 length of palate, 45 (43) : breadth of palate between carnassials, 

 16 (14): greatest breadth of brain-case, 35-5 (32); zygomatic 

 breadth, 58'5 (53); intertemporal constriction, 13; length of 

 maxillary tooth-row, exclusive of incisors, 37. 



Hpechnens examined. — The type and a half-grown female with 

 exactly similar coloration. 



liemarks. — Its rather larger size, paler, less fulvous ground- 

 colour, smaller bullfe, and broader skull serve to distinguish this 

 animal from P. minor of the type-region ; in addition, the tooth- 



* Measnveiiunits in parciitlifses those of the type of P. minor, an adult female 

 from Jalor, I'eniusulav Siam. 



