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DASYUKUS MACUI.ATUS. 
given by Mr. Gray to this animal at once draws attention 
to its most striking characteristic. Its muzzle is proper 
tionately shorter, and more obtuse, than in most of the 
preceding species; the ears are also shorter; and the tail 
is longer. The superior size and more robust form will also 
help to distinguish the L). maculatus from other species in 
Which the hind foot is furnished with a rudimentary inner 
toe. 
The fur in the present animal is harsh to die touch, and 
rather short; its colour varies from a very deep brown to a 
rich red-brown : the head is always paler than the back, and 
sometimes assumes a yellowish hue, being much pencilled 
with this pale tint; other parts of die body are more or less 
pencilled with yellowish, and the whole under parts of the 
body, as well as die fore legs and leet, are of a dirty yellow; 
the upper lip, chin, and throat, are of a more pure yellow 
tint: the toes of die fore feet are yellowish. The hind legs 
externally, and the hind feet, scarcely ditfer in uut from the 
upper parts of the body. The tail is nearly equul in length 
to the head and body taken together; cylindrical, and clothed 
with tolerably long and harsh hairs; its general colour is the 
same as that of the body, or very nearly so. The ears arc 
short, clothed internally for the most part with small yellowish 
hairs, but at the margin the hairs are longer, and near the 
anterior angle diey are tolerably long; on the outer side the 
ears are of the same colour as the crown of the head. With 
regard to the white spots with which this animal is adorned, 
they vary considerably in different individuals, and are very 
irregular in size and form ; they are observed on the whole 
ol the upper parts and sides of die body; some few are also 
visible on the under parts and on the legs; the head is usually 
immaculate, or presents but two or three very small spots 
The spots on the tail are often large, and never numerous. 
