11. I'ARADOXUKUS. 63 



Paradoxurus Ilamiltonii, Gratj, P. Z. S. 1832, p. G7 ; llhtst. Ind. 



Zool. t. ; Tvmrn. Motwijr. ii. p. 336, t. (55. f. 1 . 

 Paradoxurus ? binotatus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1832, p. QS ; Temm. Munoyr. 

 ii. p. 336, t. 65. f. 7-9 (skull). 

 Hah. AVest Africa: Fernando Po (^Oross); Ashantee (3/ms. Lnj- 

 den) ; Guinea (J/»s. Lcyden). 



Varies in the brightness and rufous tint of the fur, and also in 

 the size of the spots ; in some they are much larger, and apparently 

 fewer, than in others. 



Orbit of skull not defined behind, confluent with the zygomatic 

 cavity. Upper false grinders 3, compressed, first small, third with- 

 out any distinct inner lobes ; flesh-tooth elongate, outer edge con- 

 siderably longer than the width of the front edge, inner tubercle on 

 the front edge ; tubercular grinders two, front triangular, lather 

 wider than the length of the outer edge, hinder small, circular. 

 Length of skull 3" 4'", of nose 1" 1'" ; width of brain-case 1" 2|"', 

 of zygoma 1" 10'". 



11. PARADOXUKUS. 



Head conical. Nose flat, and with a central groove beneath. 

 Whiskers numerous, strong, elongate. Pujnl linear, erect. Toes 

 5/5. Frenum bald,_glandiilar. The skull with the brain-case 

 strongly an(ri5turdeiny constricted in front ; forehead small, trans- 

 verse, truncated behind. The orbit very incomplete, with only a 

 short conical prominence above behind, and none on the zygomatic 

 arch below ; hinder part of the palate moderate, with only a very 

 slight notch at each side on its front edge. Teeth 40, large ; false 

 grinders f • f ; the flesh-tooth triangular or subelongate ; the tuber- 

 cular oblong, transverse. 



Paradoxurus, F. Cuv. Mamm. Lithof/r. ii. t. 1821 ; Gray, P. Z. S. 



1864, p. 530. 

 Platyschista, Offo, Nov. Act. Acad. Leop. xvii. p. 1090, 1835. 

 Viven'a berniaphrodita, Pallas. 



M. Temminck, in his ' Monographies de Mammalogie,' vol. ii. 

 p. 312 (published in 1855), has given a monograph of this genus ; 

 the synonjnns are very incorrect. 



* The skull elo)if/afc ; the nose slender ; the width of the head at the last 

 tooth two-thirds the length of the palate ; the Jlesh-tooth elongate, 

 rather narrow, tcith a small internal lobe on the front edge. Boudar. 

 —Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 531. 



1. Paradoxurus bondar. B.M. 



Fur veiy long, hairy, rather rigid, dirty yellowish white varied 

 with the long black tips of the longer and more rigid hairs ; end of 

 nose brown, generally with a white central streak. The feet, outer 

 side of fore legs, and end of the tail blackish. 



Ichneumon bondar, Bi/rhanan, ^fS'. 



Viverra bondar, I)e lilaiinille, Journ. de Phj/s. 



Patrunin bondar, Jforstirld, Cat. Mas. E. Ind. C'oiitp. p. 68. 



