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MUSTELIDiE. 



Skull : — Length about 4 inches (back imperfect) ; width at back 

 of zygomatic arch 2 inches 1 line ; length of palate 1 inch 7| lines, 



Fig. 13. 



Liitronectes Wliiteleyi. 



of tooth-line 1 inch 7| lines ; width at the upper tubercular grinder 

 1 inch 5 Knes. 



The two skiills slightly differ in the size of the teeth and in the 

 width of the palate. 



I have great pleasure in naming this species after Mr. Henry 

 Wliiteley, junior, of Woolwich, who brought it from Hakodadi in 

 Japan, with many other interesting animals, and who has become a 

 martyr to science in the course of his labours as a natural-history 

 collector. Some ardent " anthropologists" having requested him to 

 procure them some Ainos' skulls, he tried to procure them, was 

 informed against by a foreign consul who did not appreciate sci- 

 ence, imprisoned in Japan, and then sent home in confinement. 

 When I first saw him on his return he was almost a living skeleton, 

 in a most pitiable state of bodUy and mental prostration. Under 

 good nourishment and nui-sing he has slowly recovered, and is gone 

 to the Peruvian Andes to continue his labours as a zoological 

 collector. 



