5. LIXSANG. 53 



a broad black streak coutinued along the sides of the body, con- 

 fluent with the bands of the back ; back of neck with five parallel 

 black streaks. Tail with seven black and white streaks ; a second 

 streak, broken into spots, from the side of the neck to the haunches. 

 Legs Av^th smaK black spots. 



Linsang gracilis, MilUer, Zoog. ind. Arch. i. p. 28, t. 



Viverra? linsang, Harclw. Linn. Trans, xiii. p. 256, t. 24; DeBluiiiv. 



Osteogr. t. 12 (teeth). 

 Felis (Prionodou) gi-acilis, Horsf. Zool. Java, t. 

 Viverra Hardwickii, Lesson, Man. p. 172 (not Gray). 

 \'\\ erra genetta, Descharnps, JIS. B. 31. 

 Paradoxurus prehensilis, !Schinz, Cuv. Thierr. iv. p. 349. 

 ViveiTa gracilis, Desm. Mamm. p. 539. 

 I'aradoxurus linsang, Fischer, Syn. Mamm. p. 159, 1829. 

 Prionodon gTacilis, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 519. 



Mab. Asia: Malacca?, Siam ?, Sumatra?, Ja.\a? (Horsjicld). 



2. Linsang pardicolor. (Nepal Linsang.) B.il. 



Pale whitish grey ; back of neck and shoulders with three streaks 

 diverging from the vertebral line ; back with two series of large 

 square spots ; the shoulders, sides, and legs with round black spots ; 

 an elongated spot on the middle of the front part of the back, between 

 the square spots on the sides of the body. 



Prionodon pardicolor, Hodgson, Calcutta Journ. N. H. ii. p. 37, t. 1. 



f. 3 & 6, 1841 ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 519. 

 Linsang pardicolor, Gray, Cat. Mamm. P.M. p. 49. 

 Viverra perdicator, Schitiz, Syn. Mamm. i. p. 366 (misprint). 



Hah. Nepal. 



The sktdl elongate ; nose rather short, compressed ; brain -case 

 narrow in front, swollen over the ears, and contracted and produced 

 behind. Orbits not defined behind, confluent Avith the temporal 

 cavity ; zygomatic arch slender. Palate contracted behind. Teeth 

 38 ; upper false grinders compressed ; flesh-tooth narrow, much 

 longer than Avide in front, the outer edge three-lobed, inner tubercle 

 on the front edge; tubercular grinders transversely trigonal, much 

 wider than long, the outer edge sloped, and the hinder lobes in 

 the middle of the hinder edge. There is no hinder tubercular ; 

 but the one present is quite like the front tubercular in the t}'pical 

 Viverridae. 



The skulls of Z.r/crtc/7('s and L. pardicolor are very similar ; but 

 the skull is rather larger, the palate narrower in front and behind, 

 and the bullai of the ears are narrower and less ventricose in L, 

 (/racilis than in L. pardicolor. 



The following are the measurements in inches and twelfths in L. 

 gracilis: — length of skull 1" 7'", width at brain-case 11'", width of 

 zygomatic arch 1" 3|"', length of nose 9'". L. pardicolor : — length 

 of skull 2" 6"', width of brain-case 10|"', width of zygomatic arch 

 1" 2k'", length of nose 84"'. 



