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row is a little more detlected. This latter character, apart from 

 smaller size, may serve to separate the minor from the herma- 

 phroditus section, in which the maxillary tooth-row is less bent, 

 since the outer lobes of m* are more in line. In the Koh Kut 

 animal the great breadth of the skull near the posterior roots of 

 the zygomata causes it to have a very heart- or pear-shaped 

 outline. 



The only examples of P. minor hitherto recorded from Indo- 

 China are two young individuals collected by Dr. Yassal in 

 Annam (Bonhote, P. Z. S. 1907, vol. i. p. 6). 



8. Martes flavigula indochinensis, subsp. n. 



Maries flavigula de Pousargues, Mission Pavie, Indo-Chine, 

 Etudes DiVerses, iii. p. 521 (1904) ? 



Ty2)e. Adult female (skin and skull), JNTo. 1860/C.B.K. B.M. 

 15.11.4.40. Collected- at Klong Menao, S.E. Siam, on 9th 

 January, 1915. 



Characters.— C\o%h\y resembling in colour Martes flavigula 

 flavtgida, but considei-ably smaller, with naked soles, harsh fur, 

 and brofid-lobed posterior molar, agreeing in these respects with 

 the equatorial members of the gioup. 



Colour. — Entire upper surface of head and neck to shoulders, 

 including ears, hind feet, and tail, deep brownish black; distal 

 half of fore legs, rump, base of tail, and hind limbs blackish 

 brown, these colours gTadually chaugiug into honey-yellow be- 

 tween the shoulders and hind quarters, the median dorsal line 

 being washed throughout with mummj'-brown, most strongly 

 posteriori}^ Sides of neck between ears and shouldeis bright 

 buff-yellow ; sides of upper lip, chin, and throat white ; under- 

 side of neck and fore-chest dirty white tinged with yellow ; chest 

 and abdomen cartridge-buft". Inner sides of ears nnimmy-brown 

 edged with whitish and with an indistinct central patch of the 

 same colour. 



Skull and Teeth. — Do not appear to difier from those of M.f. 

 peninsidaris Bonhote (8 specimens examined), except that the 

 skull is a trifle larger and the bullje a little larger and more 

 dilated. 



Measurements *. — External measui-ements, taken in the flesh : 

 head and body, 480 (430) mm. ; tail, 385 (383) ; hind foot, 96 (85) ; 

 ear, 38 (32). Skull: greatest length, 91 (90); basal length, 

 85-5 (83-5); length of jDalate from henselion, 42 (41); least 

 palatal bi'eadth between carnassials, 13*5 (15) ; breadth at post- 

 orbital constriction, 24-5 (21-5); zygomatic breadth, 51 (49-5). 



Specwtens examined.- — One, the type. 



Memarks.'—ln colour thivS animal seems closely to resemble 

 M. f. flavigida, ranging from ISTepal to Burma, but its naked 

 soles, short harsh fur, small size, and broad inner lobe of the 

 posterior molar place it in the equatorial section of the group 



* Measurements. in parentheses those of an adult female 3£.f. peninmlaris from 

 TraiJg, Peninsular Siam : F. ^r. S. Mus. No. 1142/10. 



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