50 EINAR LONNBERG, MAMMALS COLLECTED BY THE SWEDISH ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITION ETC. 



It is quite probable that several of these forms are closely related and only 

 ought to be regarded as geographic races or subspecies. Considering my own speci- 

 mens I think it most suitable to regard them as a subspecies of E. pulcher with which 

 they agree in the general pattern of eye-markings and dimensions of skull. The 

 latter fact is fully proven by comparing the measurements of Thomas' type-specimen, 

 which was female, with the corresponding ones of a female skull in my collection 

 (conf. below). 



General colour of back rather light brown, produced by buff thinly overlaid 

 with black tips to the hairs. Sides of body much paler and more greyish, resembling 

 »pa]e ecru» (Rep. des couleurs 66,4) with scattered black hair which hardly alter the 

 colour. Behind the ears a buff-coloured patch without black. Forehead coloured 

 like the back but a little paler and more greyish gradually merging into the pale 

 yellowish grey of the sides of the snout. A narrow dark mesial streak extends along 

 the proboscis where it is blackish, up on the back of the snout, where it is umber 

 brown, but disappears before it reaches the level of the eye in the brownish of the 

 forehead. A white ring round the eye extending backwards to below the ear. The 

 postero-inferior mark, which interrupts the white ring, is fawn-coloured, in some spe- 

 cimens a little mixed with black (»nearly black» in E. pulcher). Sometimes this dark 

 mark is continued all around the white eye-ring as a fawn-coloured band, sometimes 

 this is less sharply pronounced. Below the postero-inferior dark eye-marking the 

 colour of the flanks extends nearly to the gape. Lips, chin and the entire 

 under side white with sharp line of demarcation. The hairs of the upper parts and 

 flanks are dark slaty basally, but the white hairs of the lower parts are entirely 

 white, except perhaps those nearest the line of demarcation toward the flanks (conf. 

 above). Hands and feet white. Tail brown above, whitish below. 



The maximum length of the tail is 13 cm. in a male, but in females it appears 

 to be shorter, about 11 cm. Hind foot s. u. about 31,5 mm. in males, a little less 

 in some females. The gland in the sternal region is well conspicuous. 



As can be seen from this description the most important differences between 

 the typical E. pulcher and my specimens is that the former has the bases of the 

 hairs of the under surface grey and the »posterio-inferior interruption » of the white 

 ring around the eye » nearly black ». These differences are evidently only of subspe- 

 cific value. Without access to material. I cannot say if or how many of the other 

 races in the adjoining countries deserve the rank of species. It appears almost pro- 



