158 HBRPESTIB^. 



than broad, with inner tubercles on front edge; tubercular grinders 

 ^ . f, transverse, hinder very small. 



Calogale, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 560. 



* Tail like back, rather thick. Pupil ohlong, horizmdal. 



1. Calogale nyxda. B.M. 



Pale grey, very closely and minutely black- and white-punctulated ; 

 tail elongate, rather tapering, coloured like the back. 



' Ilerpestes nyiila, Hodffsoti, J. A. S. Beny. 1836, p. 236. 

 Herpestes pallidus (partly), Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. p. 373. 

 Herpestes nigula, Hodgson, Calcutta Journ. N. H. iv. p. 287. 

 Calogale nyula, Gray,' P. Z. S. 1864, p. 560. 



Hah. India: Nepal, Open Tarai (Hodgson); Salt Eange {Old- 

 ham). 



Length of head and body 15 inches, tail 12 inches. 



The largest species of the genus, but much smaller than Her- 

 pestes griseus, which it somewhat resembles. 



Skull very like H. griseus, but nose longer ; orbit complete, and 

 more compressed and tapering ; the flesh- tooth and the front tuber- 

 cular grinder rather larger and more massive. Skull — length 

 2| inches; width at brain-case 1 inch, at zygomatic arch 1^ inch. 



These animals have the tail rather more bushy than the more 

 typical Calogale ; but they have the narrow skull and longer narrow 

 brain-case and slender narrow flesh-tooth of the genus. 



2. Calogale nepalensis. B.M. 

 Dark grey, very minutely and closely punctulated, with black and 



pale-whitish hairs, with a broad subterminal pale band ; tail subcy- 

 lindrical, pencOled at the end, coloured Hke the back. 

 Length 13 inches, tail 11 inches. 



Herpestes nepalensis. Gray, Mag. N. JB. p. 578, 1836; Hodgson, 



J. A. S. Peng. p. 235. 

 Herpestes auropiuictatus, Hodgson, J. A. Soc. Peng. i. p. 578. 

 Hei-pestes javauicus, Hodgson. 



Herpestes griseus, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xiv. p. 346. 

 Herpestes pallipes, Blyth, J. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xiv. p. 346. 

 Calogale nepalensis. Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 560. 



Hah. India: Nepal, hill regions (jyoc^^rson) ; A.mam {M'Clelland); 

 Affghanistan {Griffith). 



Skull — orbit complete, like C. grisea. and C. nyida, but smaller ; 

 the nose short, like C. grisea, but more compressed ; teeth normal, 

 very like C. nyxda, the hinder tubercular being larger than in C. 

 grisea. Skull — length 1^^ inch ; width at brain-case A inch, at zy- 

 goma I5 inch. 



3. Calogale rutUa. B.M. 



Grizzled chestnut-brown, variegated with black and white rings 

 on the hairs ; head and limbs darker chestnut, with scarcelj' any, 



