106 Dr. T. Horsfield on some new or little-known 



interrupted band of black spots. Abdomen grey. Tail exceed- 

 ing the body in length ; mixed grey and black at the base, the 

 terminal portion black, the colour increasing in deepness towards 

 the extremity. Legs black. Throat grey, with a medial black 

 stripe. Ears developed. 



Length from the snout to the root of the tail 23 inches, of 

 the tail 25 inches. 



— -This species appears nearly allied to Par. Palassii, described 

 by Dr. Gray in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1832, p. Q7, but it has no 

 resemblance to the figure of that species given in Gray and Hard- 

 wickers Illustrations of Indian Zoology, ii. fig. 8. Its distinctive 

 character requires further examination. 



Five well-defined and regular black lines on the back are the 

 chief characteristic of this species; hence the specific name. 

 Mr. Hodgson considers it to be new ; and from the comparison 

 made by Dr. Gray at the British Museum, it appears to be 

 distinct from Par, Palassii. 



20. Paradoxurus quadriscrtptus, Hodgson. 



General colour grey, with a slight rufous shade extending 

 over the whole of the body, over one-half of the tail, over the 

 forehead and the lower part of the ear. On the back and parts 

 adjoining, four well-defined continuous black stripes pass from 

 the neck to the rump, having a shorter interrupted band on 

 each side ; the bridge of the nose in the middle, a well-defined 

 narrow streak from the canthus of the eye, the neck, the feet, 

 and the terminal part of the tail are black; on the upper part 

 of the neck the hairy covering is slightly variegated black and 

 grey, the separate piles being grey at the base and black at the 

 tip. The fur is soft, lengthened and straggling. 



The entire length of this species is 50 inches ; 26 of which 

 are occupied by the head and body, and 24 by the tail. 



This species resembles the Paradoxurus Bondar in habit and 

 in the softness of its hairy covering, but diff'ers essentially in 

 colour and in the four strongly marked black lines on the back. 

 The Bondar J according to the description of M. de Blainville 

 (Desm. Mamm.), is of a yellowish colour, with one prominent 

 black line on the back : the Par. hirsutus of Hodgson, which 

 is identical with the Bondar of Dr. Buchanan Hamilton, de- 

 scribed in vol. xix. of the ' Asiatic Researches,' is of a yellow 

 colour, and without lines on the body. According to the notice 

 of Dr. Gray, this species is not contained in the British Mu- 

 seum *. 



* Dr. Gray states in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1853, p. 191 : — *' I cannot see any 

 difference between these specimens and the P. musanga." 



