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Arctogale. 



Arctogale leucotis (Blyth). 

 N°. 86. 



Kopflange 13.5 cm. 



Halslange 9.5 » 



Rumpflange 33. — » 



Schwanzlange .... 58. — » 



Farbe der Iris sepiabraun ; Farbe der Pupille schwarz ; 

 Farbe des inneren Irisringes licht sepia; Form der Pupille 

 rund ; Form der Augen stark gewölbt. 



Mageninhalt : Ueberreste von Früchten. 



Geschossen am Fruchtbaume Vorabend am 9. X. 1896. 

 Dingai. 



Nomen indigenorum : Boessan. 



Hemlgalus. 



Hemigalus derby anus (Gray). 



Nos. 82 and 83. 



In his »Spicilegia Zoologica", Part II, 1830, p. 9, Dr. 

 J. E. Gray described the drawing of an animal under the 

 name Viverra Hardioickii. The author stated: »the animal 

 is only known by the drawing of Major Farquhar, which 

 is now (1830) in the collection of the Asiatic Society". 

 All subsequent writers dealing with the subject , Gray 

 himself too , mention , that Lesson described another ani- 

 mal under the very name ; this alone — if it were true — 

 would sufiBce to reject the name (I cannot make out it , 

 as I nowhere can find where Lesson used that name). The 

 principal reason however why I reject the name is that 

 it has been given to a draioing and not to an animal. It 

 seems that all authors — and Gray himself too — believe 

 that in the »Spicilegia" there has been figured the animal 

 on tab. I ; the fact is that such a figure is not to be 

 detected in Gray's book at all, and that on tabula I have 



Notes from the Leyden. IMuseum , Vol. XX. 



