M0SCHIDJ5. 05 



tt Antlers none. Canines well developed, often Ion (). The tarsi sometimes 

 naked on the hinder side. — Moschina, Grm/, Cat. TJngxd. B. M. 

 p. 241. 



Fam. 22. MOSCHIDtE. 



Throat and hinder edge of the tarsus covered with hair. The 

 median metacarpal bones united into a single cannon. Intermaxil- 

 laries reaching the nasals. The placenta divided into a great num- 

 ber of cotyledons. Stomach quadripartite. 



Moschidse, Sclater, Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. 1866, xviii. p. 403 ; A. M.- 

 Edicards, Ann. Soc. Nat. xviii. p. 120. 



1. HYDROPOTES. 



Male -wdthout any odoriferous gland on the abdomen. Crumen 

 modei'ate. Fur very thick, formed of thick, erect, bristle-, prickle- 

 like hairs, aiiuulated at the tip : hinder part of tarsus covered closely 

 with hair. Skull with a deep triangular pit before the orbit; nose- 

 hole oval, contracted above and below ; intermaxiUaries reaching 

 the nasals. 



Hydropotes, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 90. 



1. Hydropotes inermis. B.M. 



Hydropotes inermis, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 90, t. 6, »& t. 7 (skull). 

 Hyelaphus porcinus, Sioinhoe, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 510. 



Hah. China : Port Chingkiang. Sold in Shanghai market. 



" Measurements taken from the stuffed skin of an animal about 

 three-quarters gro^vn : — Length from nose to rump 29 inches, of tail 

 3, of fore leg from shoulder 18, of hind leg 20, across the eye -7, 

 across the nose -7; length of head 6-75, of ear 3^, of canine 

 tooth 1-1. 



" General colour light chestnut, stippled with black, redder on the 

 head and back of ears. Eound the nose, eyebrow, chin, and throat 

 pure white. Inside of ear light buff, whiter near base, its outer 

 edge, at tip, black. Neck paler, its under portion plain-coloured. 

 Shoiilder, fore and hind legs, and tail light brownish chestnut. 

 Belly pale buff-white. The chestnut colouring of the upper parts 

 deepens along the back, and pales downwards on the sides. 



" The hair of the nasal I'egion very short. At the corner of the 

 lower lip springs a tuft of stiff white hairs. Bristles about the muzzle 

 short and few. Eye small. Ears well clothed inside. Hair coarse 

 and stiff, of the neck and rump longest. Each hair of the upper 

 body is flattened, and undulates from side to side, or is zigzag in 

 its length, giving it in some views quite a spiral appearance. I 

 notice the same peculiarity in the corresponding hair of the Moschus. 

 Each of these hairs in our animal is white frpm its base for the 

 greater part of its length, then blackish brown, ending with a light 



