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XXIX. ON THE SOUTHERN MALAYAN RACE OF
THE WHITE-WHISKERED PALM-CIVET.
By II. C. Robinson and C. B. Kloss.
We have long thought that the Southern Malayan Race
ol Paguma leucomystax originally described by J. E. Gray from
Sumatra was subspecifically distinct, but in the absence of
fully adult specimens of the adjacent races have hitherto
refrained from describing it.
We are now, however, in possession of fine adults of the
true P. leucomystax from West Sumatra, 7'. robusta, (Miller), from
the north of the Peninsula and of the Southern Malayan form
which we propose to describe as
Paguma larvata annectens, subsp. nov.
Type:—Adult male (skin and skull), F. M. S. Mus. No.
191/09, collected at Bukit Gantang, Larut, Perak, November
1908, by Museum Collector.
Diagnosis:— Intermediate between the colder, greyer race
from Trang and the deep maroon-black form, /'. leucomystax,
from Sumatra.
Colour .-—Nape, mantle, upper and lower extremities
brownish black, the nape and mantle having the under fur
tipped with buffy; posterior parts of the body more yellow
tipped and annulated with black, the general orange effect
being richest on the rump; Hanks slightly duller; tail like the
rump, basally, becoming blackish on the distal half. Undersurface
dull buffy. Top of muzzle slightly grizzled buff. A
broad area extending from the eye to the car and more
narrowly down the sides of the neck, buff. Crown grizzled
brown and buff. Sides of muzzle, chin and throat brownish ;
ears brownish black. Vibrissae white.
Dimensions :— (External dimensions oi the type, taken in
the flesh):— Head and body, 635; tail, 610 ; hindfoot, 102 mm.
Cranial measurements: greatest length. 127 (126 1
); upper
length, 112 (116); condylo-basilar length 120 (121); basilai
length, T15 1 1 ib..}): palatilar length. 57 (57); width of palate,
including molars, 42.8(41); interpterygoid space 25 by 13.2
127 by !(•: breadth of rostrum across the roots of canines,
breadth, 71 (69); anteorbital cm strict ion,
24.7 1241 ; zygomatic
26.2 (25.4) ; postorbital constriction. 25 (22.4) ; breadth of brain
case above roots of. zygomata 4 1 (41.4); mastoid breadth,
48(45); occipital depth, 30.2 (30.4); mandible 94 (94); maxilarv
tooth row exclusive 1 of incisors |? (4) : mandibulary tooth
row, exclusive of incisors 48.3 mm. (50).
' Measurements in parentheses are tlm .< > '""is robustus
Miller. Proc. Biol. Sor Washington, XIX. p 26 (1006).