11. T.KNIOGALE. 167 



In the ' lUustrations of Indian Zoology ' I figured an animal under 

 the name of Vwerral fusca, from one of General Hardmck's draw- 

 ings In the 'Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist.' 1842, p. 260, I proposed 

 lor It a genus named Osmetectis. As yet I have never seen or heard 

 ot an animal from India that agrees with the figure. It has been 

 supposed that it may be Urva cancnvora of Hodgson ; but it does 

 not well represent that species. 



11. T^NIOGALE. 



Whiskers weak, slender. Nose grooved beneath. Toes 5 . 5. 

 Uaws compressed, rather elongate, very acute. Thumb short ; claw 

 distinct rather elevated. Great toes very short, indistinct, with a 

 small claw ; hinder claws broader. Soles of the hind feet quite bald 

 to the heel. Ears rounded. Skull oval. Teeth 42 ; false grinders 

 t . i , first conical, second and third with tliree unequal tubercles ■ 

 tubercidar grinders f . f, first upper triangular, large, second short, 

 twice as broad as long (Ogilby, /. c). 



Mangos, sp. P, OffMi/, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 103. 

 Tiieniogale, Gra;/, P. Z. 8. 18G4, p. 509. 



Mr. Ogilby described this animal as having 42 teeth, 3 false 

 grinders m the upper, and 4 in the lower jaw. Perhaps one tooth 

 in the lower jaw was clianging. 



Taeniogale vitticollis. B.M. 



Black, red-washed ; hair very long, soft, black, with long red tips ; 



head black, minutely punctulated ; legs and feet black ; taH black ; 



streak on side of throat black ; the front claw elongate, compressed. 



arched. 



ngos vitticollis, &/W/, Cat. Mam. B. 31. p. 50 (not Or//% 



Journ. 



Mangos vitticollis, Gra,/, Cat. Mam. B. 31. p. 50 (not Omlbi/). 

 Herpestes vitticollis, Bennett, P. Z. 8. 183o, p. 67; Madras J 



1839, p. 103, t. 2. > f ' 



MaugustH vitticollis, Ul/iot, Madras Journ. of Lit. Sc Sci. 1840, p. 12, 



t. 1 ; De Blamv. Osteof/r. p. 48, t. 96. ' r > 



Mangos ? vitticollis, Or/i/bi/, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 103. 

 Taeniogale vitticollis, Gra}/, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 569. 



Zfrti. India: Madras, in thick forests (11^. Elliot); Travancore 

 (P. Poole). 



Varies in the greyness of the fur and the extent and darkness of 

 the red-bay on the sides of the neck and body, there being least on 

 the specimens that have the most grey and distinctly white rigid 

 hairs. In some specimens (perhaps in some seasons) the whole 

 animnl has a bright bay tint from the tips of tlie longest hairs. 



The skull is elongate, like that of AtJufhi.c palwJosus; but the 

 bram-case is more ventricose and higher, and the orbit smaUer and 

 complete behind. The zygomiitic arcli is rather short and very 

 nuuh bowed out, the most convex part of the arch being rather be- 

 hind the middle of its length. The contraction of the brain-case is 

 rather behind the back .,f tlie orbit. The teeth are normal nearly 



