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3rd premolar is only a larger repetition of the 2nd. The posterior internal cusp 

 of the 1st and 2nd molars are much larger than in either of the three species 

 enumerated above. The cusps of the lower molars are more slender and pointed, and 

 the canine is not longer nor much stronger than the 1st premolar, and only 

 slightly larger than the 3rd incisor. 



The intestine is 24 in. long, and the csecum long and narrow, and 1*17 in 

 length. The walls of the stomach, as in Urinaceus, are thickened on the pyloric 

 half. One stomach was full of the imperfectly-digested remains of a small yellow 

 lady-hird with a sprinkling of the elytra of small beetles. There were also small 

 masses of a jelly-like substance with very fine fibres. 



The species was originally described from the hills to the west of Madras. It 

 has also lately been obtained by Mr. W. T. Blanford at Gondalpuda in the Godavery 

 valley. Mr. Baker informs me that he has been told that it is also found in Kuttack. 

 It may probably extend to Ceylon, and be the Tupaia referred to by Kelaart. 

 Giinther records it from Bombay, and to the east it extends as far as Monghyr, in 

 the neighbourhood of which it is abundant. 



* Tupaia belangeri, Wagner, Plate VII, figs. 6 and 7. 



Tupaia de Pegou, Is. Geoff. Zool. de Belanger, 1834, p. 105, tab. 4; MuUer und Schlegel, Verhandl. 



1839-44, p. 160. 

 Tupaia of Pegu, Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849, p. 107. 

 Cladohates helangeri, Wagner, Schreber, Siiugeth. Suppl. 1841-42, pi. ii; vol. v. p. 527; 



Giebel, Saugetb. 1859, p. 915; Fitzinger, Sitzgsbr. der K. Akad. Wien. 1870, vol. Ix. 



pp. 276, 277. 

 Tupaia fermginea, Blyth, Cat. As. Soc. Mus. Calcutta, 1863, pp. 81, 82 (in part). 

 Tupaia peguana, Jerdon, Mamm. India, 1867, pp. 65, QQ. 



Basal half of the fur black ; the remaining half banded with yellow and black. 

 The fur is composed of two kinds of hairs ; the first and most prevalent kind forms 

 the bulk of the fur, and is very fine and wavy near its extremity ; it has its terminal 

 half banded with black, yellow and black, the last band forming a narrow black 

 tip. The second kind of hair is rather strong and somewhat bristly, and is longer 

 than the previous kind, beyond which it projects a considerable way and is usually 

 banded in its free half with yellow succeeding the basal black, followed by black, 

 yellow and black : some of the hairs, however, have only a yellow and black terminal 

 band. The black basal half of the fur being hidden, the banding of the hair pro- 

 duces a rufous olive-grey tint over the whole of the upper surface of the animal, 

 including the tail, which is concolorous with the body, the sHght rufous tint being 

 most marked on the hind quarters. There is a short, pale, narrow line before the 

 shoulder— a character common to some of the species. The under surface from 

 the chin to the vent, including the insides of the limbs, is yellowish. The 

 hairs on the feet are olive-greyish or brownish, grizzled with yeUowish. On 

 the under surface of the tail,, on the mesial line, the hairs are very short, adpressed. 



