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Prochilus malayanus, Gray, Ann. PM. 1825, p. 61. 



Helarctos malayanus, Horsf. Zool. Joum. ii. p. 221, t. 7; Gray, Cat. 



Mamm. B. M. p. 73 ; P. Z. 8. 1864, p. 697. 

 Helarctos euiyspilua, Sorsf. Zool. Jmim. ii. p. 221, t. 7: Gray, Cat. 



Mamm. B. M. p. 73. 

 Malay Bear, Griffith, A. K. t. 



Hab. Malayan islands — Sumatra, Borneo, Java; Malay penin- 

 Bula. Called " Bruang " by Malays. 



The skull of a very old animal, labelled U. malayanus, received 

 from tte Zoological Society's Museum, has a much shorter tuber- 

 cular grinder than any of the others in the Museum, which are called 

 U. euryspilus ; but the teeth of the specimen rather differ in size, 

 and the figure that Cuvier"aiid De BlainviUe give of the skull of the 

 specimen of U. malayanus which we sent to Paris by Dr. Leach, 

 ftom the species that was first described, appears to be intermediate 

 in size and form between the skulls in the British Museum. But 

 perhaps the Bomean specimen may be found to have a rather larger 

 tubercular grinder which is more contracted behind than in the 

 Javan specimens. 



Bknll short, swollen. Nose very short, broad ; end as broad as 

 the forehead between the orbits ; nose-opening elongate, higher than 

 broad. Orbits small, ovate. Forehead broad, convex, arched on 

 the sides and extended far back between the temporal muscles. The 

 palate broad, short, concave, with parallel sides, contracted behind ; 

 the opening of the hinder nostrils broad, equal, the sides about 

 as long as the width of the front edge. The last tubercular grinder 

 moderate, broad, as broad and rather longer than the flesh-tooth, 

 obliquely truncated on the hinder half of the outer margin. The 

 side cutting- teeth larger-lobed. False grinders close together, form- 

 ing a crowded series : the first oblong, longer ; the second small, on 

 the outer side of the series; the third longer, three-lobed. The 

 lower jaw short, stout, with a rather long chin and straight lower 

 edge. The nasals are short, and broad at the end, reaching to a 

 line level with the middle of the orbit. 



b. European. Claws ? 



2. Helarctos enryrhinus. 



Fur dark brown. 



