236 MAMMALIA. 



a^. Tail with light and dark rings incomplete. 



b. Large size ; black rings all complete, light rings just broken 



by the dorsal black band of the tail ; flanks distinctly 



spotted with large spots. 



c. Mane commencing between the ears ; skull with anterior 



upper molars quadrangular as compared with V. 



zibetha. V. civettina, p. 237. 



<^. Mane commencing between the shoulders. 



V. megaspila, p. 237. 



h^. Smaller ; only a few of the posterior black rings of the 

 tail complete, and the dorsal black band broad. 



V. tangalunga, p. 237. 



Viverra zibetha. 



Viverra zibetha, Linnaeus Syst. Nat., i2th ed., i, p. 65 (1766) ; Cray Illustr. 



Ind. ZooL, ii, pi. v ; M'Clelland Calc. Joiirn. N. H., i, p. 56 ; Gray Cat. 



Hodgs. Coll., 1st ed., p. 7 ; Horsfield Cat. E. /, Mus., p. 54 ; Walker Calc. 



Journ. N. H., iii, p. 266 ; Blyth J. A. S. B., xxxi, p. 331 ; id. Cat., p. 45 ; 



Gray P. Z. S., 1864, P'S'2; Jerdon Mamtn., p. 120; Gray Cat. Cam. 



Mamm.,^.46 ■,Swinhoe P. Z.S., 1870, pp. 227,630; Blyth J.A.S.B,, xliv, 



Burma list, p. 25 ; Sterndale Manim. Ind., p. 208 ; Spearman Burma. 



Gazett., p. 547 ; Blanford Mammals, p. 96. 

 Viverra undulata, Gray Spiceleg. Zool., p. 9 (1830). 

 Viverra melanurus, Hodgson jf. A. S, B„ x, p. 909 (1841) ; id. Calc. yourn. 



N. H., ii, p. 47. 

 Viverra civettoides, Hodgson id. ibid. 

 Viverra ashtoni, Swinhoe P. Z. S., p. 379, (1864). 



The Indian Civet Cat; Katas, Hindustani; Machbhondar, 

 Bagdos, and Pudogaula, Bengali ; Bhras, Nepal terai ; Nit biralu, 

 Nepal ; Kung, Bhotea ; Saphiong, Lepcha ; Kyung-myeng, Bur- 

 mese ; Hagah gendrah, Assamese. 



Distrihutio7i. — Bengal, extending northwards to the Nepal Terai 

 and southwards to Cuttack, Assam, Burma, Southern China and 

 Hainan (Swinhoe) ; its occurence in the Malay Peninsula seems 

 doubtful since it has been so often confused with V. megaspila and 

 V. tangalunga. 



