11. PHALANGEE. 



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Size markedly smaller than in the other species. Fur thick and 

 soft. Colour all over a uniform grey, with a certain tinge of 

 coppery. No trace of a dark central line. Top of muzzle naked 

 nearly to the level of the anterior canthus. Ears (PI. XXI. fig. 4) 

 larger than in any of the preceding species ; laid forward (in spirit- 

 specimens) they reach just to the posterior canthus of the eye ; their 

 hacks uniformly covered with soft fawn-grey hairs, their margins 

 and internal surfaces naked. Chin, chest, and helly white or 

 yellowish white, - the anal region and underside of base of tail 

 sometimes deep chestnut. Outsides of limbs like back, but rather 

 paler ; inner sides like belly. Tail furry for about one half above and 

 two fifths below, the difierence in extent of the hair from about one 

 to two inches ; distal part of tail with more fine hairs scattered over 

 its upper and lateral surfaces than usual, and with its lower surface 

 unusually contrasted in colour with the upper". 



SJcull light and delicate. Nasal notch very shallow, the nasals 

 projecting scarcely 2 millim. in front of their junction with tho 

 premaxillae; their posterior portions but little expanded. Inter- 

 orbital region concave, its edges sharply ridged. Anterior palatine 

 foramina extending to the level of the middle of the canines. 



Teeth. Upper i.^ cylindrical, nearly half the size of i.^ in section ; 

 a distinct diastema between it and the canine, so that the two teeth 

 do not touch at all. Canine about as long vertically as i.^ and p.* 

 P.' about halfway between the canine and p.*, and about half their 

 height ; p.^ absent in aU the specimens known ; p.'' very similar to 

 that of Ph. orientalis, var. hreviceps, its oblique diameter about 4 

 millim. Molars small and rounded. Lower intermediate teeth two 

 in number in all the specimens known. 



Dimensions. 



^^^ *_ 



a (in spirit). c (siin). 



Barely adult. Adult, 



millim. millim. 



Head and body 270 390 



Tail 240 



Lower leg 64 (c.) 75 



Hind foot ' 43 48 



Ear 20 15 



Skull, see next page. 



Hah. Celebes and Sanghir Islands. 

 Type in collection. 



a. Ad. al., cJ. Menado, Celebes. Dr. A. B. Meyer [C.]. 



, ( Imm. sk. I J, Macassar. A. R. Wallace, Esq. 



*• I Skull. \°- . [C.]. (Type oi s^^ecies.) 



J Ad. sk. I - Sanghir Isl. Dr. A. B. Meyer [CI. 

 "• I Skull. ( '^• 



d. Yg. sk. Old Collection. 



