J 878.] W. T. Blarford — Nrw Ifammah from Tenasserim. 71 



4. Descri])tion of tivo apparently new Mammals from Tenasserim. — By 



W. T. BLANroED, F. E. S. 



Peiottodot^ MACULosrs, sp. nov. 



Allied to P. gracilis, but much larger, and much darker in coloration, 



the upper parts being blackish brown, broken up into large spots and bands 



by greyish white lines, whereas in P. gracilis the upper parts are pale with 



black patches. In the latter too the j^ale rings on the tail are broader than 



the dark rings, and there is a long white tip, longer than the last dark ring, 



whereas in P. maculosus the reverse is the case, the dark rings being nearly 



twice as broad as the light. The only other species, P. pardicolor of the 



Himalayas, is much smaller than P. maculosus, it has more numerous rings 



on the tail, and the upper parts are marked with more or less rounded 



spots. 



In P. maculosus there are two broad dark stripes down the back of 

 the neck, divided by a narrow white band, with a faint mesial streak, which 

 becomes a double line of elongate spots between the shoulders. The two 

 dark bands pass into the dark patches of the back ; on each side of these 

 bands is a white, rather wavy stripe, commencing at the ear and continued 

 along the neck, over the shoulder, and down the side to the thigh, becoming 

 more irregular behind, beneath this again is a dark band somewhat broken 

 up into spots in front and on the sides. The back is crossed by six tran- 

 verse white bands, the first five equidistant, the first joining the central 

 neck streak, the hinder all connected with the lateral white band. There 

 are small dark spots on the fore neck forming an imperfect gorget, also 

 spots on the lower portion of the sides and outside of the limbs. On the 

 tail are seven white rings and a very short white tip. Nose and crown dark 

 brown, forehead between the eyes and cheeks light brown, a dark ring 

 round the orbit, with a streak running back to below the eye and another 

 passing up to the crown. Ears rounded, blackish brown outside and near the 

 margin inside, a few long pale hairs on the inner surface of the ear conch ; 

 whiskers long, extending to behind the ear, the upper brown, the lower en- 

 tirely white. Soles, except the pads, covered with fine hair. 



Fur soft and short, not more than half an inch long on the back, ash 

 grey at the base, black or white at the tip on the upper parts, white 

 throughout below. The following dimensions were taken on an adult 

 male preserved in spirit : — 



inches. 



Length from nose to rump over curve of back, 18*25 



Ditto of tail without the hairs at the end, 16* 



Ditto of hairs at end, , 075 



Total, 35- 



