142 MELINID^. 



nape to middle of the back yellowish white ; eud of tail grey ; feet 

 brown. 



Gulo orientalis, Horsf. Java, t. 

 Mydaus macrurus, Kiihl, Temm. Monogr. pi. 20. 

 Mydaus orientalis, S. Ifiiller. 



Melogale fusca, I. Geoff. Guer. Mag. Zool. 1835, t. 16. 

 Helictis orientalis. Gray, List Matmn. B.M. p. 195j P.Z.S.lQQb, 

 p. 152. 

 Hab. Java {Horsjleld, called " Nyentek "). 



2. Helictis nipalensis. (The Oker.) B.M. 



Grey-brown ; forehead and nape darker ; cheek, band between 

 orbits, chin, throat, sides of neck, chest beneath, and a streak from 

 nape to loins white ; end of tail greyish. Teeth large. 



Gulo nipalensis, Hodgson, J. A. S. B. 1836, p. 237. 

 Helictis nepaulensis. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1853, p. 191. 

 Helictis nipalensis, Gerrard, Cat. Bones B. M. p. 98 ; Gray, P. Z. S. 

 1865, p. 153. 

 Hab. Nipal (Hodgson) ; Tibet. 



** Flesh-tooth small; aperture in front of orbits very large. Helictis. 



3. Helictis moschata. B.M. 



Brown ; spot on crown, temples, broad band across forehead, a 

 small spot on cheek and on side of nose, the chin, throat, chest, and 

 beneath white. Teeth small ; upper tubercular grinder transverse, 

 narrow, oblong. 



Helictis moschata. Gray, P. Z. S. ii. p. 94 ; 1865, p. 153. 



Melogale personata, /. Geoff. Voy. de Belanger, t. 5. 



Mustela personata, Blainv. Osteogr. Mustela, t. 13. f. 



Hab. China {John Reeve) ; Pegu (/. Geoff.). 



4. Helictis subaurantiaca. B.M. 



Brown ; face white-varied ; with a white streak from the crown 

 to the middle of the back. Upper tubercular grinder transverse, 

 broadly oblong in shape. 



Helictis subaurantiaca, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862, p. 365, pi. 44; 

 Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 153. 



Hab. Formosa. 



This species is nearly identical in external appearance and colouring 

 with the H. orientalis ; but it has the small tooth, elongate nose, the 

 large suborbital aperture, and narrow hinder opening to the palate of 

 H. moschata. It differs from H. moschata in its teeth — the flesh- 

 tooth and the tubercular tooth being relatively rather larger — and 

 especially in the tubercular tooth being longer and more massive, 

 being a broad oblong instead of a narrow one. 



