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therefore much lighter coloured than others, as the hrown band succeeding 

 the latter is also much paler in some individuals than in others. 



This species, besides the almost entire absence of the proximal mesial 

 pad of the sole, is at once distinguished by the complete absence of the bare 

 space that occurs in E. pictus, and E. micropus, among the spines of the 

 vertex. From the two last named species which have no large proximal pad 

 on the sole, it is recognised by its large feet, well developed toes, powerful 

 claws, and by the turning in of the hind feet, as well as by its different 

 coloration. There is a considerable naked space over the sacrum, and 

 on the dorsum of the tail as in other species. The snout is seminude? 

 being sparsely covered with very minute hairs. Behind the whiskers, the 

 hairs become much more numerous and longer, and the area below the eye, 

 and the forehead are well clad. The greater part of the front of the ear is 

 nude, but there is a sprinkling of short white hairs internal to and along its 

 margins. The chin and below the lower lips are almost naked, and, immedi- 

 ately behind the chin, the hairs are few. The under parts are well clad, but 

 not densely so, and the limbs are thinly clad, more especially the feet on which 

 the hairs are very few and short. The tail also is only sparsely clothed. 



The general colour of the animal is blackish-brown or brown, the spinous 

 portion of the body being darkest j but the colour is variable owing to the 

 reasons already mentioned. 



The front of the face from the nose backwards to the spines, the limbs 

 and all the under parts with the exception of the chin and a line from it 

 upwards to the ear which are white, are generally dark-brown or f uliginous - 

 brown, blackish on the face, on which there is occasionally a considerable 

 intermixture of white hairs. The hairs which clothe the ears, and a tuft 

 of hairs at the base of the anterior margin of the ears, are white. The 

 white on the chin is more prolonged upwards to the ears in some specimens 

 than in others, giving rise to a kind of white collar which is much exagge- 

 rated in the figure of JE. collaris. The claws are horny yellow. 



The following are the measurements of this species : 



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Length of body and head, 6"85 6"70 6''70 



„ of tail, o''96 rso ro2 



Height of ear, r45 ^52 T'SS 



Breadth of ear, 0"97 0''97 T' 00 



Snouttoeye, TOO 0''49 0" 62 



Eye to ear, 0"52 0"49 0"62 



Length of hind foot without claw, 1"45 1"45 1''50 



Breadth of hind foot, 0"49 0''45 0"38 



