4 HOLLISTER. 



Front teeth not chisel-shaped, tooth row essentially continuous 

 (canine teeth present). 

 Size small; length of head and body (to root of tail) less than 

 215 millimeters (8.5 inches). 

 Total length (nose to end of tail) under 250 millimeters 

 (or 10 inches). 

 Fur short; color uniform unmixed brownish — or blackish- 

 gray (true shrews) Soricidae, p. 5. 



Fur long; color variegated; slate gray mixed with reddish- 

 brown Erinaceidas, p. 4. 



Total length (nose to end of tail) over 250 millimeters (or 

 10 inches). 



Tail well haired (tree shrews) Tnpaiidx, p. 6. 



Tail nearly naked (tarsier) Tarsiidse, p. 36. 



Size large; length of head and body (to root of tail) over 

 215 millimeters (or 8.5 inches). 

 Upper incisors four. 

 No external tail. 



Size small; head and body less than 300 millimeters (or 



1 foot) (slow lemur) Xemuridas, p. 35. 



Size large; head and body over 400 millimeters (or 16 



inches) (gibbon) Hylobatidse, p. 38. 



With external tail, very short or very long (maccaque). 



Cercopitheoidae, p. 36. 

 Upper incisors six. 



Hind foot with four toes (cats) Felldse, p. 23. 



Hind foot with five toes. 



Upper molar-premolar row (all teeth back of the 

 long canine tooth) of six teeth (civets and mon- 

 goose) Viverridse, p. 22. 



Upper molar-premolar row of less than six teeth. 



Upper molar-premolar row of four teeth (otter, 



"skunk," etc.) Mustelidae, p. 20. 



Upper molar-premolar row of five teeth. 



Ears tufted; throat and breast blackish (binturong 



or bear-cat) Viverridae, p. 22. 



Ears not tufted; throat and breast yellowish 

 (marten) MnstelidaB, p. 20. 



Order INSECTIVORA. 

 Family ERINACEID^. 



Genus PODOGYMNURA Mearns. 



1905. Podogymnura Mearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., 28, 436. 

 Type. — Podogymnura truei Meaens. 



A small, rat-like wood-shrew; pelage long, full, and soft. Up- 

 per parts slate-gray mixed with coarse reddish-brown hairs; 

 under parts, hoary, slightly mixed with brown hairs. Head and 

 body, 148 millimeters ; tail, 62 ; hind foot, 36. Only one specimen 

 known. 



