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The form persicus, Gray, in- 

 cluded in the synonymy of auro- 

 No. 58. auropundatus, punctatus by Blanford^does not, bo 



Hodgs. far as I have been able" to discover, 



No. 59. birmanicus, Thos. occur within our limits, but pal- 



lipes is a well marked form of the 

 Kandahar border. Miss Ryley des- 

 cribed (J. B. N. H. S. xxii., p. 661,1914) another local race, under 

 the name helvns, from Deesa, Gujerath. Quite recently I recorded 

 that the type of nipalensis, Gray, had been found (J. B, N. H. S. 

 XXV., p. 68, 1917). 



I gave a very full synonymy 



of this species, when it was first 



No. 60. mungo, Gmel. obtained by the Survey (J. B.N.H. 



S.xxi.,p. 401, 1912). One name 

 only out of all those recorded, i.e., 

 ferrugineiis, requires to be revived to represent the race of mungo 

 from the extreme north of India. Miss Ryley added the name 

 pallens (J. B. N. H. S. xxii., p. 660 1914) for the Gujerath 

 form. Since then I have had occasion to provide two more Sub- 

 specific names, mcerens and ellioti (for the Nimar and Dharwar forms 

 respectively), and to make a new species, lanha, for the Ceylon form 

 (J. B. N. H. S. xxiv., p. 50, 1915). 



These five species make up the 

 remainder of Blanford's key. 

 No. 61. smithi. Gray. The only change required in 



No. 62.fuscus, Waterh. any of them is pointed out by 



No. 6S. fulvescens, Kel. Miss Ryley in her Report on South 



No. 64. vitticollis, Benn, Ceylon (J. B. N, H. S. xxii., p. 706, 



No. 65. urva, Hodgs. 1914), where she substitutes jiavi- 



dens i'ov fulvescens, Kelaart having 

 used the former name in 1850 

 (J. R. A. S. Ceyl. ii., p. 323), though the reference was overlooked 

 by Blanford. These maj'- be arranged in a key as follows : — 



Key to the species of Mungos. 



A. — No neck-stripe. 

 a. No black tail-tip. 



a\ Fur close and short, longer hairs 

 of back with 4 or 5 rings of 

 colour ; size, small. 

 o'. Hindfoot, without claws, less 

 than two inches long. 

 a^ Pattern very coarse. 



a*. Dai'ker, dark brown ... 1 . auropunctatus 



Hodgs. 



