124 JIELINID.'E. 



on each side of the head black; tail elongate; cars very short, 

 white-edged. 



Males taxus, Harcho. MS. B. M. (!) 



Arctonyx collaris, F. Cuv. Mamm. Lith. t. 51 (from Hardivicke' s 



Draicing) ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, pp. 138, G81 (fig. skull). 

 Arctonyx taxoides (Balisoar), Bhjth, Journ. Adat. Soc. Beny. p. 689. 

 Arctonix, Evans, J. A. S. B. vii. t. 43. 

 Mephitis assameusis, M' Clelland, Ind. Rev. 1858, p. 309. 

 Meles collaris, OijUby, Penny Encyc. iii. p. 264. 

 Mvdaus collaris. Gray, Illust. Lid. Zool. X. 

 Arctonyx isonyx, Hodys. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 398, t. 50. 

 Sand-Bear, Bewick's Quad. p. 257. 



Hah. Assam and Arakan. 



I can find no diifereuce between the specimen of A. isomjx (Hodg- 

 son, P. Z. S. 1856, t. 50) and A. collaris. 



b. Palate moderately lirodticed behind; hinder ojjeniny on a line level loith 

 the middle of the zygomatic arch. 



2. MELES. 



Head pointed ; nose prominent ; ears rounded. Body thick, 

 heavy. Limbs short ; front claws elongate, for digging. Tail short. 

 Skull elongate, rounded behind ; orbits incomplete, only contracted 

 above. Teeth 36 ; false grinders f . f . Flesh-tooth moderate-sized, 

 triangular. Tubercular grinder very large, four-sided, oblong, rather 

 longer than broad. 



Meles, Gesner, Quad. ; Briss. R. A. ; Nilsson, Skand. Faun. p. 182 ; 



Gray, List Mamm. B. 31. xxi. p. 70 ; P. Z. S. 1865, p. 138. 

 Taxus, Cuvier.f. 



The bald soles of the hind feet of Taxidea Jeucurus are oblong, 

 occupying about two-thirds of the length of the foot, hairy behind, 

 with four pads in front ; the front and outer one smaller, triangular. 

 The sole of the fore foot is oblong, with four unequal-sized pads in 

 front and one oblong transverse one on the hinder margin (Hodgson, 

 J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 2, t. 31. f. 4). 



* Skull ovate, sicollen behind; the forehead and tipper paH of the nose 

 broad, flat above, and rounded on the sides ; the face short, thick ; the 

 Jlesh-tooth of the loioerjaiv moderate, shorter than the tooth-line occupied 

 by the three premolars. 



Taxus, Eumeles, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, pp. 139, 140. 

 Meles, Gray, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 206. 



1. Meles taxus. (Badger.) —^m^ B.M.. 



Yellowish grey, black-washed ; Umbs and beneath black ; face 

 white, with a streak enclosing the eyes and ears black. 



Ursus taxus, Blumenb. Handl. p. 10. 



Ursus meles, Liim. Syst. Nat. i. p. 70; Sehreb. Siliiydh. p. 516. 



