74 VIVERRID.Ti:. 



together at the crease of the neck, and when brushed towards the 

 middle of the back, give the appearance of a dark band or streak ; 

 but there is no real band or streak in this species. 



Skiill swollen. False grindei's moderate, rather compressed, coni- 

 cal, blunt, without any internal process ; the flesh-tooth triangular, 

 rather longer on the outer edge than the width of the front edge ; 

 the internal tubercles triangular, rather behind the front edge, inner 

 side rather angular ; tubercular grinders oblong, transverse, about 

 as wide as the length of the outer edge, inner side narrower and 

 rounded ; hinder tubercular very small, circular. Length of skull 

 4" 6|"', uf nose 1" 5|"' ; width of brain -case 1" G'", of zygoma 

 2" 6'". This skull is much more vontricose, and the head is much 

 shorter and broader, than in P. hondar. 



Paradoxiirus leucopus, Ogilby, Zool. Journ. iv. p. 303, t. 35, 1829, 

 Teram. Esq. Zool. 120, " band round the loins, the feet, and the tip 

 of the tail pure white," is probably, from the description, an accidental 

 variety of the P. Grai/i. The specimen does not appear to have been 

 preserved. 



I believe the specimen which I described in 1837, under the name 

 of P. Jounlanii, ' Mag. of Nat. Hist.' i. p. 579, from a specimen which 

 M. Jourdan purchased in London for the Lyons Museum, is the same 

 as the one here decribed. 



The only character that M. Jourdan gives for Amhhjodon is the 

 following : — " Cette a laquelle il a donne le nom (1' Amhhjodon dare 

 est celle qui oflfre la disposition dentaire la plus omnivore, celle qui, 

 par consequent, rappelle le mieux ce qui a lieu dans les liasores, 

 chez lesquels les deux bords dentaires sent presque egaux en hau- 

 teur et en epaisseur, egalement tuberculeux, et out les deux arriere- 

 molaires approehant le plus d'etre egales et semblables dans lenrs 

 cotes interne et cxterne. V Amhhjodon a un pelage fort grossier, 

 rude, assez long et presque unicolore, seulement ]A\\s fonce en dessus, 

 autour des yeux, avec les extremites noires en dessus, comme la 

 Mtistela." — Ann. Sci. Nat. viii. p. 276, 1837. 



This character suits more than one Indian species ; but fortu- 

 nately M. de Blainville, in his valuable ' Osteographie,' has figured 

 a skull under the name of Paradoxurus aurahis, which is probably 

 the one named by M. Jourdan, and certainly is the same as the 

 Paradoxurus Gray'i of Mr. Bennett. It may be observed that M. 

 Jourdan was in England shortly after I had described the species in 

 the ' Magazine of Natural History' : he saw my specimens, and even 

 referred to my paper in his 'Memoire' (p. 275); but he redescribed 

 my Paradoxurus derhlanus as Hemigale zehre, and P. Jourdan'd as 

 Amhhjodon dore, without reference to their synonyms, though the 

 latter is from the same specimen, I believe, as I described with his 

 permission. 



See Paradoxurus laniger, Hodgson, MS. {Paguma laniger, Gray, 

 Cat. Mamm. B. M. p. 55 ; P. Z. S. 1864, p. 542). 



P. larvahis, var., Temm. Esq. Zool. p. 120(!); Monogr. ii. 

 Rah. Nepal {Hodgson). 



