70 VIVEHRID.E. 



8. Paradoxurus philippensis. Jj.M., type. 



Fur blackish, with a silvery gloss ; spot under eyes distinct ; 

 cheeks dark brown ; head, feet, and the greater part of the tail 

 blacker ; the back with three indistinct narrow black streaks, which 

 converge near the rump, and with a series of very indistinct small 

 ones on the upper part of the sides ; sides of forehead, chest, and 

 beneath whiter ; whiskers white and black : ears hairy. 

 Var. 1. Dorsal stripes none. B.M. 

 Var. 2. ^Ubino, yellowish white. B.M. 



Maites pliilippeusis, Camdhis, Phil. Trans, xxiv. p. 2204. 

 Paradoxurus zeylanicus (partly), Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. p. S-"). 

 Paradoxm-us philippensis, Tenmi. Monogr. ii., Esq. Z. p. 120 (not 



Joardan) ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 537. 

 Paradoxm'us aureus, TVate7-home, Cat. Zool. Soc. 



Hah. Manilla, Philippines : Casmiguind (^Cuming). 



The colours vary much in intensity, and in the lighter and darker 

 specimens the spots and streaks are scarcely visible ; the white on 

 the side of the foreliead in front of the base of the ears also varies 

 in distinctness and extent ; the spot under the eyes is generally 

 distinct. This sjjecics is like P. nigrifro7is and P. mnsanga in many 

 respects ; but it differs from them both in the crown of the head 

 being paler like the back, and from P. nigrifroiis in having three 

 dorsal stripes ; but in one specimen, from the Philippines, these 

 stripes are quite in^-isible ; yet in every other respect this is like the 

 other specimens, and it differs from the specimen of P. nigrifrons in 

 the colour of the crown. 



Third upper false grinder with a well-marked linear tubercle on 

 the hinder inner edge ; the flesh-tooth tuberciilar, the outer edge not 

 longer than the width of the front margin ; front tubercular tooth 

 oblong, the inner and outer edge of about the same width, smaller 

 than in P. zeylanicus. 



9. Paradoxurus macrodus. B.M., tyjje. 



The skull with a rather elongated nose ; the third upper false 



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