96 



MirSTELID^. 



Length of skull 



palate 



tooth-line 



zygoma or orbit 



lower jaw 



Width over the ears 



at front of orbits . 



I'3 



in. I. 



2 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 8i 



I 



in. 1. 

 2 4 

 1 



10 



1 OJ 



1 ^ 



1 



7i 



!>■ 



in. 1, 



2 3J 



1 



94 



6i 



> 



in. 1. 

 1 10 

 10 



84 



94 



1 

 104 

 54 



■§■3 



>■ 



in. 1. 

 1 11 



104 

 8 



104 



1 1 

 10 

 6 



5. GYMNOPUS. 



The body elongate, slender. Limbs sbort ; feet large ; toes elon- 

 gate, broadly webbed nearly to the tips, covered -with scattered hair. 

 TaU elongate, slender; covered with long spreading hair. The soles 

 of the hind feet with three oblong pads, and an arched and a bald 

 space behind them; the heel hairy. Teeth 34; premolars §.?-; 

 the upper tubercular grinder small, transverse, the inner half rather 

 larger than the outer one. 



Grymnopus, Gra 

 p. 119. 



List Mamm. B. M. xx. 1842 ; P. Z. S. 1865, 



* Colour uniform cAove and helow ; head pale. 



1. Grymnopus lencocephalus. B.M. 



Golden fulvous, nearly uniform, scarcely paler beneath ; head 

 white ; toes elongate, webbed, rather naked. 

 Putorius nudipea, F. Cm. Mamm. Lith. t. 

 Mustela nudipes, Desm. Mamm. ; Mutter, Vei-hand. : Blaim. Ost^our. 



t. 13 (teeth). •' 



Gymnopua leucocephalus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 119. 



Var. End of tail paler ; feet darker ; front of the back with a 

 pale vertical streak, wider and more distinct between the shoul- 



^^'«- „ B.M. 



Hah. Sumatra and Borneo. 



The tail of the specimen in the Paris Museum is nearly destitute 

 of hair ; the soles of the feet are covered with hair. 



The two stuffed specimens in the British Museum are nearly alike 

 but the skull of one is much larger than that of the other ; one is 

 2 inches 4 lines, and the other 2 inches 2 lines long. 



** Belly pale yelloio. 

 2. Gymnopus kathiah. (Kathiah.) B.M. 



Dark brown ; upper lip, chin, throat, chest, underside of body 

 and front of thighs bright yellow; tail dark brown, shorter than 



