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ifjif).] Robinson: Vertebrates of Pulau Panjang. 63
• and the colour differem - are also of dubious value, so I prefer
not to apply any subspecific name to this monkey. In view of
the genera] oological affinities of the Rhio-Lingga archipelago
it will probably prove to he allied rather to the Sumatran than
to the Peninsulai 1 ice and I have therefore used Raffles name
which was conferred on specimens obtained in the neighbourhood
of Bencoolen.
Measurements in Parentheses are those of the type of
Pithecus bintangeusis as given by Elliot.
Ckociduka maporensis, Robinson & Kloss, sp. nov.
Type. Sub-adult female (skin and skull) collected on the East
side of Pulau Mapor, Rhio-Lingga Archipelago, on 5th June,
1915, by H. C. Robinson.
Diagnosis. In colour closely resembling C. aoris, * but
smaller, about the same size as C. negligens t but colour less
pure grey. Skull rather broader than in the allied forms.
Skull:' Broader relatively than that of C. aoris and rather
more inflated in the anterior portion of the frontal region than
in that species.
Measurements: Greatest length -(23"8)t ; basal length,
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18.5 (21. 1); lachrymal breadth of rostrum, 5 i (4.9); greatest
breadth above molars, 7*3 (7'g); cranial breadth above mastoid,
10 6 (10*5);
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maxillary tooth row, including iucisors, g 3 (iO'O).
Remarks. Though the material is very bad, the only
specimen obtained being much damaged by the trap and brants,
we have little doubt that the Mapor shrew is a fairly
distinct form.
archipelago.
It is the first occurrence of the genus in the
TUPAIA CASTANEA KEDACTA Subsp. HOV.
Type:- Adult male (skin and skull), No. 355/15, Federated
Malay States Museums, collected on East side, Pulau Mapor,
Rhio Archipelago, 7th June 1915, by H. C. Robinson.
Characters .--Extremely close to Tupaia castanea, Miller, 1'
out somewhat smaller, the underparts especially the mesial
streak and the thighs more rusty "'ferruginous" Ridgeway
(PI. XIV) against "ochraceous tawny" (PI. XV). and with the
upper surface more chestnut, less maroon, mingled "Hays
Russet (PL XIV) and 66 Xanthine Orange" (Plate III) against
"Maroon" (Plate I).
Colour:- Top of head and sides of the face, hands and
feet annulated black and buffv ochraceous, a buff ring round
the eye. Rest of the upper surface rusty ferruginous, many of
the hairs with glistening black tips. Tail except at the base
above, where the hairs are tipped with black, almost uniform
* Ann & Mag. Nat. Hist, (8) x, p 589 (1912).
t Ann & Mag. Nat Hist. (8) xiii, p. 232 (1914).
J Measurements in parentheses are those of the type of Ctoctdura aoris.
H Smithsonian Misc Coll. vol. 45, p. 54. 1903): Lyon, Proc. U.S. Nat.
Mus. 4, p. 90, pi. 10, fig. 9 (1913.)