9. BAEANGIA. 



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bones produced to a line even with the middle of the orbit ; inter- 

 maxillary very slender. The flesh-tooth acutely tubercular, -with 

 the internal lobes on the front part of the inner edge, rounded, 

 sUghtly more than half the length of the outer edge of the tooth. 

 Tubercular grinder much broader than long. 



Barangia, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 123. 



1. Barangia snmatrana. (Barang.) B.M. 



Chestnut-brown, scarcely paler below ; upper lip, chin, and upper 

 part of the throat pale yeUow— 



Lutra barang, F. Cuvier, Diet. S. Nat. xxvii. p. 246 ; Oerrard, Cat. 



Boms B. M. p. 101. 

 Barang, Buffies, lAnn. Trans, xiii. p. 254. 

 Barangia sumatrana, Ch-ay, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 123. 



Hal). Sumatra {Baffles) ; Malacca (B.M.). 



Known from Jyatra leptonyx (Horsfleld) by the hairy nose, the 

 larger claws, and the more equal toes ; the upper surface of the web 

 of the hind feet covered with close hair, the lower surface bald ; the 

 fur short, with numerous polished flattened bristles ; the under-fur 

 short, close, pale brown. 



Skull somewhat like that of Hydrogale; but the nose is more 

 produced, and narrower, only as wide as the distance from the front 



Fig. 12. 



Barangia sumatrana. 



orbit to the intermaxillary suture. The suborbital foramen is not 

 so large, but oblong, transverse, wider at the outer end. 



2. Barangia? nepalensis. (Nepal Barang.) SkuU, B.M. 



The nose of the skuU is considerably longer and wider, the part 

 between the front of the orbits and the suture of the intermaxillary 

 bones being considerably longer than its width in front of the orbits ; 



