2. VIVKRRICULA. 47 



Hah. Asia : Bengal {Ilorxjield) ; India (Hanhvicl-) ; Calcutta 

 (Oldham) ; Nepal {Hodgson) ; China (./. lleeve) ; Formosa (Sivinhoe) ; 

 ? Isle of Negros (Cuminy) (skuU B.M.) ; ? Malay peninsula (Hors- 

 field). 



Skull elongate, narrow. Nose compressed. Orbit incomplete 

 behind. Teeth very like Genetta \ upper hinder tubercular small, 

 oblong, transverse, with two outer and one large inner tubercle. 

 Lower jaw shelving in front ; lower edge rather arched, without any 

 tubercles below the end of the tooth-line ; the tubercular grinders 

 subcircular, with three lobes on the crown. 



3, Viverra tangalunga. B.M. 



Tail black above, and ringed on the lower side. 



Viverra tangalunga, Grai), P. Z. S. 1832, p. 63 ; 18G4, p. 512 ; Cat. 



Mamm. B. M. p. 48 ; Cantor, Mamm. ; Horsfield, Cat. 3'his. India 



House, p. 57. 

 Viverra zibetha, Raffles, Linn. Trans, xiii. p. 231 ; F, Cuvier, Mamm. 



Lithog. t. 



Hah. Sumatra (called " Tangalung ") (Raffles) ; Borneo, Celebes, 

 Amboyna (Midler) ; Malayan peninsula (Cantor). 



WTiat is Viverra mee/aspila, Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1862, 

 p. 321 ? 



2, VIVERRICULA. 



Head tapering. Throat with luuate dark bands. Bod)- elongate ; 

 back not crested. Legs moderate, equal. Tail almost as long as 

 the body, tapering, dark-ringed. Toes 5/5 ; claws acute, com- 

 pressed. Pupil oblong, vertical. Teeth 40 ; false grinders f . 3 ; 

 flesh-tooth longer than broad in front, inner lobe on the front mar- 

 gin ; tubercular grinders % . |. 



Viven'icula, Hodqson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. x. p. 909 ; Gray, 

 P.Z.S. 1804, p. 51.3. 



Hah. Asia. 



Like a Genet, but with hairy soles to the feet, a shorter tail, and 

 no crest. Foot with a small bald spot on the side of the palm-pad 

 (see Hodgson, J. A. S. B. t. 31. f. 8). 



Viverricula malaccensis. (Malacca "Weasel.) B.M. 



Grey ; back with seven black or dark streaks more or less broken 

 up into spots : shovdders, sides, and legs spotted ; feet deep brown 

 and black ; tail vrith. seven or eight black rings, 



Viven'icula malaccensis. Cantor, Cat. Mamm. Malm/, p. 29 ; Grarj, 

 P. Z. 6'. 1804, p. 513. ■ . 



Viverra nialacconsis, Gmelin, S. X. p. 02 (from Sonn.) ; Gray, Cat. 

 Mamm. B. M. p. 48; Gerrard, Cat. Od. B. 31. p. 70. 



Viven-a gunda, Hamilton Buchanan, Icon. 



Vivm-a r.isse, Horsf. Zool. Java, t.; P. Z. S. ii. (1832) p. 2S;Schinz, 

 Syn. Mamm. i. p. 362. 



