142 PHAiAN&EtllDA 



rooted, not minute in proportion. No 



squamosal inflation 1. D. lepida, p. 142. 



6'. Size large, ms.'-'' more than 4 miUim. . . 2. D. caudata, p. 143. 



6. Molars |. 



c*. Size large, ms.^"° atout 3 J to 4 millim. 

 Anterior premolars cylindrical, single- 

 rooted, minute, close together near p.* 

 Squamosal root of zygoma inflated . . , , S. D. nana, p. 144. 

 B. Lower p.* minute, no larger than p.^ and p.' 

 c. Molars |. Size small, ms.^"' less than 3 

 nullim. Upper p.^ and p.' cylindrical, 

 single-rooted. Squamosal root of zygoma 

 inflated 4. JD. coneinna, p. 146. 



1. Dromicia lepida. 



Size small ; form, as usual, slender and graceful. Fur fine, soft 

 and silky. General colour pale bright fawn. Ehinarium finely 

 granulated, sharply defined. Face pale fawn, the usual darker 

 mark through eye inconspicuous and vaguely defined. Whiskers 

 numerous, long and slender ; no prominent hair-tufts round base of 

 or inside ear. Ears (PI. XV. fig. 8) large, broad, thin, laid forward 

 they reach slightly beyond the tip of the muzzle ; middle third of 

 their outer margins slightly concave, lower third markedly convex ; 

 very finely hairy, almost naked. Palate-ridges 8, evenly convex 

 forwards. Whole of back uniform bright fawn, the tips of the 

 hairs, however, only this colour, their bases dark slaty grey. Hairs 

 of chin white, of chest and belly dark slaty for three fourths of 

 their length, their tips white; line of demarcation on sides not 

 sharply defined. Mammae 4. Palms and soles naked, finely granu- 

 lated, each with five low striated pads. TaU rather longer than the 

 head and body, its basal half-inch furry like the body, the remainder 

 finely haired, with ill-defined minute scales. 



Stsidl (PI. XVI. figs. 2 & 3) broad, smoothly rounded. Supra- 

 orbital edges not ridged. Zygomatic part of squamosal quite with- 

 out inflation. Palatine foramina extending back to the level of the 

 canines. Larger posterior palatal vacuities reaching forwards to 

 the level of the middle of m.^ ; a smaller pair just in front of the 

 back edge of the bony palate. Bullse prominent, rounded, trans- 

 parent. 



Teeth (PL XVI. figs. 4 & 5). Upper incisors and canine as usual. 

 P.' and p.' two-rooted, triangular in side view, each with a long 

 central and a minute backwardly projecting basal cusp; a diastema 

 of about equal length between the canine and p.', p.' and p.^ and 

 p.^ and p.*, the latter slightly the shortest ; p.* projectirig slightly 

 lower than the tips of the molars, without a large posterior cusp, 

 but with its main cusp slightly bifid at its tip, the anterior point 

 the shortest. Molars four in number, rather squarer than in the other 

 species, and rapidly decreasing in size backwards ; m.' quite minute, 

 moreor less triangular in section. Lower i.^ as usual. Intermediate 

 teeth three in number, apparently representing i.^ p.', and p.°, not 



