134. INSECTIVORA. 



TrPAiA JAVANICA, Horsfield, Plate VII, figs. 14 and 15, skull. 



Tupaia javanica, Horsfd. Zool. Resch. in Java, 1832, fig.; Desmarest, Mamm. 1822, pp. 536, 



825; Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 1829, p. 260 ; Gray, Griffith's An. Kingd. vol. v. (1827), p. 306; 



Reichenbach, Natur. Raubth. 1834-36, p. 321, fig. 451. 

 Cladohates javanicus, Lesson, Man. de Mamm. 1827, p. 122; Wagner, Schreber, Saugeth. Suppl. vol. 



V. 1855, p. 527; Fitzinger, Sitzgsbr. der k. Akad. Wieu, vol. Ix. 1870, pp. 282, 283. 

 ' Hylogale javanica, Midler und Schlegel, Verhandl. 1839-44, pp. 165, 166, j)l. xxvi. fig. 3; pi. xxvii. 



figs. 7 to 10. 



The skulls of the specimens referred by Blyth to T. javanica are totally 

 different from the skull of that species as depicted by Miiller and Schlegel, and must 

 be regarded as belonging to a hitherto unrecognised form, T. malaccana. T. javanica 

 is distributed over Java, Borneo, and Sumatra, according to Miiller and Schlegel. 

 Externally, T. javanica and T. malaccana appear to be much alike, and it may be 

 that the small Tupaia from Sumatra, referred by other authors to this species, is the 

 Malayan form T. malaccana. 



Tupaia malaccana, n. s., Plate VII, figs. 16 and 17, skull. 



Sorex-glis press, F. Cuv. Mammif. vol. ii. Livr. xxxv. Dee. 182 J . 

 Tupaia javanica, Blyth, Cat. Mamm. Mus. As. Soc. Beng. 1863, p. 82. 



About the same colour as T. belangeri. Eur short and fine, and measures 

 on an average 0-38 inch long, the more rigid and longer hairs being 0*58 or 0*55 

 inch in length. The basal black region measures 0*19 in extent, and the annula- 

 tion is the same as in the other species, only the bands are not so broad. The 

 pale bands are rich yellow. The tail above is concolorous with the body. The 

 shoulder stripe is yellowish or nearly pure white. The feet are rufous-yellowish. 

 The under surface is white, richly washed with rufous-yellow : the under surface 

 of tail is richer and darker rufous-yellow. 



Bather smaller, or of the size of T. javanica. Muzzle short ; tail longer than 

 the body. Length of the body and head 5*40, tail 6*70, hind foot 1-25. 



The characters of this species are best seen in its skull, of which there are two 

 in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, agreeing in all essential particulars with each other. 

 One was removed by Blyth from an adult of this species from Malacca, and the 

 other from a younger animal with milk dentition. 



The most striking features of the skull are its small size, its breadth, and the 

 shortness of the facial portion as compared with the figure of T. javanica given 

 by Miiller and Schlegel. Its orbito-parietal ridges form a broad, rounded arch, 

 quite different from what occurs in the skull of any of the other species of Tupaia ; 

 and hence we find associated with the same portion of the skull a breadth and 

 flatness which is also specific and characteristic of this form. The muzzle rapidly 

 contracts from the orbit to its middle, beyond which it maintains an almost equal 



