50 <EINAR LÖNNBERG, MAMMALS COLLECTED BY THE SWEDISH ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITION ETC. 
It is quite probable that several of these forms are closely related and only 
ought to be regarded as geographic races or subspecies. Considering my own speci- 
mens I think it most suitable to regard them as a subspecies of £. pulcher with which 
they agree in the general pattern of eye-markings and dimensions of skull. The 
latter fact is fully proven by comparing the measurements of THOMAS” type-specimen, 
which was female, with the corresponding ones of a female skull in my collection 
(conf. below). 
General colour of back rather light brown, produced by buff thinly overlaid 
with black tips to the hairs. HWides of body much paler and more greyish, resembling 
»pale ecru» (Rép. des couleurs 66,4) with scattered black hair which hardly alter the 
colour. Behind the ears a buff-coloured patch without black. Forehead coloured 
like the back but a little paler and more greyish gradually merging into the pale 
yellowish grey of the sides of the snout. A narrow dark mesial streak extends along 
the proboscis where it is blackish, up on the back of the snout, where it is umber 
brown, but disappears before it reaches the level of the eye in the brownish of the 
forehead. A white ring round the eye extending backwards to below the ear. The 
postero-inferior mark, which interrupts the white ring, is fawn-coloured, in some spe- 
cimens a little mixed with black (>nearly black> in £. pulcher). Sometimes this dark 
mark is continued all around the white eye-ring as a fawn-coloured band, sometimes 
this is less sharply pronounced. Below the postero-inferior dark eye-marking the 
colour of the flanks extends nearly to the gape. Lips, chin and the entire 
under side white with sharp line of demarcation. The hairs of the upper parts and 
flanks are dark slaty basally, but the white hairs of the lower parts are entirely 
white, except perhaps those nearest the line of demarcation toward the flanks (conf. 
above). Hands and feet white. Tail brown above, whitish below. 
3 ? 
Greatest length of skull . . . . 35,0 mm. 33,7 MM. 
Condylomeisive sleng these fa 33 SIT 
(Greatest: breadth . 200 20,0 > 
Length Ofrmasalstt ff FERRARIS Toa > 
Interorbital widthyleb Sö OF IE IING6S 6,0 > 
Tengohrot upper: tooth row sera Sj 7520 
Length of head and body about . 12;0 em. 
The maximum length of the tail is 13 em. in a male, but in females it appears 
to be shorter, about 11 cm. Hind foot s. u. about 31,5 mm. in males, a little less 
in some females. The gland in the sternal region is well conspicuous. 
As can be seen from this description the most important differences between 
the typical HH. pulcher and my specimens is that the former has the bases of the 
hairs of the under surface grey and the »>posterio-inferior interruption» of the white 
ring around the eye »nearly black». These differences are evidently only of subspe- 
cific value. Without access to material. I cannot say if or how many of the other 
races in the adjoining countries deserve the rank of species. It appears almost pro- 
