20 ZOOLOGY OF THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. SAMAEANG. 



1. Ptilocercus Loivii, Gray, Pro. Zool. Soc, 1848, 24. (Plate V.) 



Blackish brown, very minutely grizzled with the yellowish tips of the hairs ; lips, lower 

 part of cheeks, chin and beneath yellowish : sides of the face, inclosing the eyes, black. Tail 

 black ; barbs white, except a few hairs near the scaly part, which are black. 



Length 5& inches ; tail 6^; hind foot 1. Skull: length 1" 4'" tooth line, 7|"'; of 

 face 5'" ; of zygomatic arch 7f, width at zygomatic arch 9^'", at temples 6^"', between 

 orbits 3f". 



Hab. Borneo (Sarawak) ; J. Brooke, Esq. B. M. 



I have named this species after my friend Mr. Hugh Low, who has much enriched our 

 knowledge of the natural productions of Borneo. 



4. HYLOMYS. 



1. Hylomys suillus, Muller, Verh. 50. 153. t. 25, 26. 

 Hab. Java and Sumatra. B. M. 



5. SOREX. 



1. Sokex myosurus, Pallas. S. cserulescens var., Raffles. S. murinus, Linn.; Cantor, Mamm. 

 Malay. 21. 



Hab. Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Amboina, Penang ; called chinchorot ; Cantor. B. M. 



2. Sorex tenuis, Muller, Verh. 50. 

 Hab. Timor. 



6. GYMNURA. 



1. Gymnura Rafflesii, Lesson ; Vigors and Horsfield ; Cantor, Mamm. Malay. 26. Viverra ? Rafflesii, 

 Raffles. 



Hab. Malacca; Farquhar; Cantor. Sumatra. B. M. 



Yar. Bomeensis. G. Rafflesii var., Waterhouse, Pro. Zool. Soc., 1842, 114. 



Hab. Borneo. /. Brooke, Esq. 



Tarn. 8. MACROPOD^E. 



1. CURSUS. 



1. Curstts orientalis, Gray, List. Mamm. Brit. Mus. 84. Phalangista cavifrons, Temm. Mon. i. 1. 1. 

 Didelphis orientalis, Linn. Ph. rufa and Ph. alba, Geoff. 



Hab. Amboina, Timor. B. M. 



Capt. Sir Edward Belcher brought home a female specimen of this species which is now 

 in the British Museum. 



