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INSECTIVOEA. 



nent canine is only appearing, the skull is considerably larger than that of the latter, 

 and also broader. 



D. frenata, Gray, also differs from D. murina^ M. and S., in its paler colour, 

 which is olive-brown, produced by the annulation of the hair. The under parts, also, 

 instead of being white as in the latter, are pale fawn. The black band from the snout 

 through the eye, behind which it expands backwards to the ear, where it ceases, is 

 less defined than in D. murina. There is a pale whitish, somewhat rufous streak or 

 band above this dark one, extending from the snout over the eye and ear, ceasing 

 behind the latter, but in D. murina the post-ocular portion expands into a large 

 white spot. There is also in both species a similar pale band below the black one, 

 but in neither is it expanded into a white spot, and it is more obscure in JO. murina 

 than in 1). frenata. 



These two species stand as follows : — 



Dendrogale murina, M. & S., Plate VII, figs. 18 and 19, skull. 



Bylogale murina, M. & S., Verhandl. (1839-44), i, p. 167, tab. 26, %. 5; tab. 27, figs. 17 and 18. 

 Cladobates {Dendrogale, Gray) murinus, M. & S., Wagner, Schreber, Saugeth. (1855), vol. v, p. 528. 



Sahitat. — Borneo. 



Dendrogale frenata. Gray, Plate VII, figs. 20 and 21, skuU. 



Tupaia frenata, Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1860, vol, vi, p. 217. 

 Kahitat. — Camboja. 



Measurements of specimens in the British Museum : 



No. 1. No. 2. 

 bnout to root of tail 5-Oq 4.5Q 



Length of tail 3.7O imperfect. 



Skull of Dendrogale frenata. Gray : 



Posterior margin of orbito-parietal ridge to tip of premaxillaries 



Greatest breadth across zygomatic arch 



)5 „ „ pai'ietals 



Breadth at lachrymal notch ^ 



Lachrymal notch to tip of premaxillaries 



Breadth at canines 



„ 2nd incisors ♦........, 



ist „ .....'. ." . ' ' ' \ 



„ orbital angle of frontals 



Least breadth between orbits 



Posterior palatine margin to tip of premaxillaries 



Breatest breadth between alveolar surface (external margin) between 2nd and 3rd molars 



Greadth (external) half-way between posterior incisors and canines 



Length of alveolar border 



Inches. 

 140 

 70 

 63 

 46 

 55 

 23 

 19 

 11 

 •58 

 43 

 72 

 40 

 17 

 70 



