3rd premolar is only a larger repetition of the 2nd. The posterior internal cusp
of the 1 st and 2nd molars are much larger than in either of the three species
enumerated ahoye. The cusps of the lower molars are more slender and pointed, and
the canine is not longer nor much stronger than the 1 st premolar, and only
slightly larger than the 3rd incisor.
•The intestine is 24 in. long, and the caecum long and narrow, and 1-17 in
length. The walls of the stomach, as in JErmacem, are thickened on the pyloric
half. One stomach was full of the imperfectly-digested remains of a small yellow
lady-bvrd with a sprinkling of the elytra of small beetles. There were also small
masses of a jelly-like substance with very fine fibres.
The species was originally described from the hills to the west of Madras. It
has also lately been obtained by Mr. W. T. Blanford at Gondalpuda in the Godavery
valley. Mr. Baker informs me that he has been told that it is also found in Kuttack.
I t may probably extend to Ceylon, and he the T-wpaia referred to by Kdaart.
Gunther records it from Bombay, and to the east it extends as far as Monghyr,.in
the neighbourhood of which it is abundant.
* T t t t a t a b e l a n g e s t , Wagner, Plate VII, figs. 6 and 7 .
Tufaia i e Pig/m, Is. Geoff. Zool. de Bélanger, 18S4, p. lOS, tab. 4 ; Müller und SpUegel, Verhandl.
1889-44, p. 160.
T-upaia o f Pegu, Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849, p. 107.
Cladobales belangen, Wagner, Schreber, Säugeth. Suppl. 1841-42, pi. iij vol. v. p. 527 ;
Griebel, Säugeth. 1859, p. 915 ; Eitzinger, Sitzgsbr. der K. Akad. Wien. 1870, vol. lx.
p p . 2 7 6 , 2 7 7 .
Tupaia fermginea, Blyth, Gat. As. Soc. Mus. Calcutta, 1868, pp. 81, 82 (in part).
Tupaiapeguana, Jerdon, Mamm. India, 1867, pp. 65, 66.
Basal half of the fur Black ; the remaining half handed with yellow and hlack.
The fur is composed of two kinds of hairs ; the first and most prevalent kind forms
the hulk of the fur, and is very fine and wavy near its extremity ; it has its terminal
h a lf handed with hlack, yellow and hlack, the last hand forming a narrow hlack
tip. The second kind of hair is rather strong and somewhat bristly, and is longer
than the previous kind, beyond which it projects a considerable way and is usually
handed in its free half with yellow succeeding the basal hlack, followed by black,
yellow and hlack : some of the hairs, however, have only a yellow and black terminal
hand. The hlack basal half of the fur being hidden, the banding of the hair produces
a rufous olive-grey tint over the whole of the upper surface of the animal,
including the tail, which is concolorous with the body, the slight rufous tint being
most* marked on the hind quarters. There is a short, pale, narrow line before the
shoulder—a character common to some of the species. The under surface from
the «hin to the vent, including the insides of the limbs, is yellowish. The
hairs on the feet are olive-greyish or brownish, grizzled with yellowish. On
the under surface of the tail, on the mesial line, the hairs are very short, adpressed,
yellowish, and unbanded. Although the tail is concolorous with the body, the colours
are very differently arranged. The basal fifth of the hair is yellow, and is succeeded
by a black followed by a yellow band, succeeded in its turn by a black, terminating
in a yellow hand which may or may not have a yellow tip. The fur on the body
averages 0’50 in length, but the longest hairs, which occur chiefly on the hind
quarters, are as much as 0’80. The hair on the head from between the ears
forwards is dense and about 0‘33 in length. The moustachial hairs, black and not
very numerous, are rather short, hut some of them reach tò the posterior angle of
the eye. There are a few long bristly hairs in groups on the throat and behind the
angle of the mouth.
The head is considerably shorter than the head of T. tema, slightly shorter than
T. ferruginea, and the muzzle fuller and much shorter than in the first-mentioned
species, the distance between the eye and the snout being 090, from the posterior
angle of the eye to the hinder margin of the tragus being 0*68 ; the nostrils are
crescentic slits directed obliquely backwards, the concavity being turned upwards and
forwards; they measure 0'20 in extreme length, and a groove from their posterior
margin runs downwards to the lip, as in all thè other species of Tupaiæ. The ear is
moderately large. The upper anterior angle of the helix is folded on itself till it
reaches the vertex of the ear, behind and below which the margin of the helix is
simple, concave in its upper half and rounded below. The anti-helix is very distinct,
and the anti-tragus is prominent and projecting above the tragus. The general form
of the ear and its external appearance in T. ellioti may he taken as characteristic
of the other species of the genus. The hinder surface of the ear is sparsely clad with
hairs similar to those on the front parts. Thè toes are of moderate length ; thé 1st
the shortest, and the tip of its claw is on a line with the base of the 3rd and 4th
toes ; the 2nd is shorter than the 4th, and the latter is slightly shorter than the 3rd,
which is the longest ; and the 5th reaches only to about the middle of the 4th.
Pour pads, as in the other species, occur between the bases of the four toes, and a
very large one behind the pad between the 4th and 5th toes, and a much smaller,
partially-divided pad behind the cushion at the bases of the 1st and 2nd toes. The
claws are strong, much laterally compressed, deep at the base, yellowish, «.nd of
moderate length.
In the hind foot, the 3rd and 4th toes are of equal length ; the dimensions
of the other toes are the same as in the fore foot. The cushion between the 1st and
2nd toes has no pad behind it, hut is continued backwards along the margin of
the sole as a long, narrow, linear pad. The cushion between the 4th and 5th
toes has another behind it, also linear in its character and distribution. The claws
are stronger than on the front toes, but of the same description. The halls of the
toes are prominent and laterally compressed.
The young are dark ferruginous, above finely speckled ; the tail the same colour
as the body ; the under surface rather lightly ferruginous than yellowish, and the
outside of the limbs darker than in the adults.