5. GYMNOPtrS. 



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tho body and head, tapering, and of the same colour to the tip. 

 Length of body and head 10, tail 4 inches; the soles of the hind 

 feet bald, pads well developed, exposed. 



Mustek (Putoriiis) kathiali, Ilodi/son, J. A. S. B. iv. p. 702, 1835. 

 Mustela (Kathiali) auriventer, Hodgson, J. A. S. B. x. p. 909. 

 Gymnopus kathiali, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 119. 

 Hab. India, Nepal. 



Length of skull 



palate 



tooth-line 



zygoma and orbit 



Width over ears 



in front of orbit 



Length of lower jaw 



3. Gymnopus strigidorsus. B.M. 



Fur dark chestnut-brown, with a very narrow streak of a few 

 longer yellow hairs down the centre of the back ; edge of upper lip, 

 the chin, throat, chest, and a narrow streak down the centre of the 

 belly (wider hindwards) yeUow, becoming whiter in the older speci- 

 mens ; tail slender, about half the length of the body, dark brown. 



Mustela strigidorsa, Hodgson, P. Z. S. 1856, p. .398. 



Mustela strigodorsa, Hodgson, MS. ; Gray, P. Z. S. 18*53, p. 181, 



t. 491. 

 Gymnopus strigidorsus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 119. 



Hab. India, Sikim. 



Very like AI. l-athiah, but with a yellow dorsal streak, and the 

 yellow on the belly much narrower. The soles of the hind feet 

 bald ; the pads exposed, distinct, developed. 



4. Gymnopus africanus. 



Keddish brown ; beneath pale yellow, with a narrow central lon- 

 gitudinal reddish-brown ventral streak ; tail reddish brown ; hairs 

 long. 



Mustela africana, Desm. N. lyict. H. N. xix. p. 876 ; Desm. Mamm. 



p. 179. 

 Putorius africanus, A. Smith, South Afr. Jorn-n. ii. p. 36. 

 Mustela (Gale) afticana, Schinz, Si/n. Mamm. p. 345. 

 Gymnopus africanus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 120. 



The specimen of M. africana in the Paris Museum is like M. er- 

 minea, but lighter, larger, and the beUy with only a broad j-ellow 

 streak on each side, leaving the middle brown ; tail uniform reddish 

 brown, like the back, to the end. 



