TRAGTTLID^. 



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Var. 4. Grej'-browu ; ears, throat, and chest bright yellow. 



Moschu8 chrysogaster, Gray, Cat. Ungul. B. M. p. 245, t. 25. fig. 1 

 (skull). 



Hab. Nepaul. 



Fam. 23. TRAGULID^. 



Throat and hinder edge of the tarsus bald and callous. Fur 

 close-pressed, soft. Throat white-streaked. Young coloured lilce 

 the adult. The median metacarpal bones united into a cannon. 

 Skull : intermaxillary broad, reaching to the nasals. Placenta dif- 

 fused. Stomachs three. Cutting-teeth in an interrupted series, the 

 middle broadest. Stomach quadripartite, and divided into a great 

 number of cotyledons. 



Moschina II. (Pigmy Musks), Gray, Cat. Ungul. B. M. p. 246. 

 Tragulidse (part.), A. 31. -Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat. 18G4, ii. p. 121 ; 

 Sclater, Ann. Sf Mag. N. H. 1866, xviii. p. 403. 



1. MEMINNA. 



Chin entirely covered with hair. Hinder edge of the metatarsus 

 covered with hair, with a large, smooth, naked prominence on the 

 outer side rather below the hock. Fur white, striped, and spotted. 

 Legs shoit. (Gray, Cat. Ungul. B. M. p. 246, t. 24. f. 2, skull ; 

 A. M,-Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat. 1864, tab. 3. f. 2.) 



1. Memiima iudica. 



Meminna indica, Gray, Cat. Ungtd. B. M. p. 246, t. 24. f. 3 (skull). 

 Tragulus meminna, A. 3I.-Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat. 1864, ii. p. 125, 

 t. 3. f. 2, t. 10 (osteoL). 



Hab. India, Ceylon. 



2. TRAGULUS. 



Throat and chin nakedish, subglandular, with a callous disk 

 between the rami of the lower jaw, from which a baud extends 

 to the fore part of the chin ; hinder edge of the metatarsus naked 

 and callous. Fur soft, not spotted. (Gray, Cat. Ungul. B. il. p. 248, 

 t. 25. f. 3, skull: A. M.-Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat. 1864, tab. 7-9.) 



The male has the hinder part of the vertebral column and pelvis 

 covered with an expanded bony disk, formed by the ossified dorsal 

 fascia (Gray, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 226, fig.). M. A. M.-Edwards figures 

 it as only covering the 2)elvis(Ann. Sci. Nat. 1864, tab. 4. f. 2). It 

 has not been observed in the female specimen. M. A. M.-Edwards 



