210 HERPESTES SEMITORQUATUS. 



NOTE XXII. 



ON A SPECIMEN OE 



HERPESTES SEMITORQUATUS GRAY 



EROM SUMATRA 



BI 



Dr. P. A. JENTINK. 



December 1894. 



In the year 1883 the Museum procured some animals 

 from Soekadana, collected by Mr. J. C. van Hasselt. Among 

 them was a specimen of the rare Herpestes semitorgiiatus , 

 recorded in the Catalogue du Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, 

 T. XI, p. 125. 



Gray's type-specimen (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1846, p. 

 211) being sent by Lowe from Borneo, I was convinced 

 that my specimen too came from Borneo : Soekadana lies 

 in Southwestern-Borneo. There is , however, an other loca- 

 lity called Soekadana and lying in the Lampongs, Southern 

 Sumatra. And now I discover by an accident that Mr. v. 

 Hasselt in 1883 dwelled in Soekadana, Southern-Sumatra, 

 so that our specimen of H. semitorquatus is from the latter 

 locality and not from Borneo. Sumatra therefore — and 

 that is the reason why I publish this observation — is a 

 new locality for that species. 



It is a very important fact, that Herpestes brachyurus 

 and H. semitorquatus are living in Sumatra as well as in 

 Borneo. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XVI. 



