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only slightly differing from typical derbianus, Thomas has supplied 

 the subspecific name (1. c. p. 613) incursor. 



Distribution : — 



//. derbianus incursor, ^'i/i^« locality : — Bankachon, S. 



Thomas. Tenasserim. (B. N. H. S.- -Short- 



ridge.) 



Other localities : — None. 

 ""nve-.—B. M. No. 14.12.8.115. 



Gen. VIII. — Arctictis. 



Thomas has named a new species 



No 57 binturona Eaff ^"'^^ ^- ^- ^^^^ ^^' ^' ^- ^- (^>>' 



xvii, p. 270, 1916), under the name 



(jairdyieri, which will very probably 

 be found to extend into our limits. These two forms may be dis- 

 tinguished as follows :- — 



Key to the sjjecies of Arctictis. 



A. — Size large, greatest length of skull, 153 



mm. ... ... ... ... ... 1, gairdneri^ Thos. 



B. — Size small, greatest length of skull, 136 



mm. ... ... ... ... ... 2. hiniurong. Raff. 



Distribution : — 



1. A. gairdneri, Thomas. ^V/'e locality: — Sai Yoke, S. W. 



Siam. (Gairdner.) 



Other localities : — S. W. Siam 

 (B. M.) 



Type :— B. M. No. 15.12.1.26. 



2. A. binturong, Raffles. Type locality : — Sumatra. 



(Raffles.) 



Other localities : — Upper Burma 

 (B. M.) Tenasserim (M. S. I.) 



Type : — Unknown. 



Subfamily II. — MuNGOTiNiG. 



Gen. — MuNGOS. 



The name used by Blanford, Herpestes, for thiis genus 

 dates only from 1811, whereas Geoffroy and Cuvier used the 

 name MuNGOS fifteen years earlier (Mag. Encycl. ii., p. 184, 

 1795). 



