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Viverra civettina. 



Viverra civettina, Blyth J. A. S. B., xxxi, p. 332 (1862) ; id. P. Z. S., 1864, 

 p. 484 ; id. Cat. no. 140 p. 44; Jerdon Mamm., p. 121 ; Blanford Mam- 

 mals, p. 98. 



Distribution. — Malabar Coast, Wynaad and Coorg. 



This species, described first by.Blyth from Southern India, seems 

 to differ in several respects from V. zibetha; instead of the indefi- 

 nite stripy markings of V. zibetha, the hinder part of the body of 

 V. civettina is covered with distinct large black spots and the 

 ground colour is distinctly yellow; the yellow rings on the tail are 

 broken by the longitudinal dorsal black band down the tail, where- 

 as in V. zibetha the yellow rings completely surround the tail. 



The skulls too, differ in several respects ; the large upper molar 

 of V. civettina is much more quadrangular and its length bears a 

 much greater ratio to its breadth than in V. zibetha, in which the 

 tooth is almost triangular ; the postorbital processes of the frontal 

 bones are almost absent in V. civettina, whereas in V. zibetha they 

 are quite distinct. 



a. Skin, skeleton W. Rutledge. 



b. Skin, skull South India Lord A. Hay, 1845, A.S.B. 



[Type of V. civettina of Blyth.j 



c. Skin Purchased. 



d. Skin Purchased. 



Viverra megaspila. 



Viverra tangalanga, apud Cantor J. A. S. B., xv, p. 197 (1846). 



Viverra megaspila, Blyth J. A. S, B,, xxxi, p. 331 (1862) ; id. y. A. S. B. 



xliv, Burma List, p. 25 ; Spearman Burma Gazetf., p. 548, Gunther P. 



Z. S., 1876, p. 428, pi. xxxvii ; Blanford Mammals, p. 99. 



Distrihiition. — Burma and the Malay Peninsula, Cochin China 

 and Sumatra. 



[No specimens in Indian Museum.] 



Viverra tangalanga. 



Viverra tangalanga, Gray P. Z. S., p. 6^ (1832) ; 'Horsfield Cat. E. I. Mus., 



p. 57 ; Blyth J. A. S. B., xxxi, p. 332 ; id. Cat. no. 142, p. 45; Gray Cat. 



Cam. Mamm., p. 47, Gunther, P. Z. S., 1876, pp. 427 and 735. 

 Viverra zibetha, apud F. Cuvier Hist. Nat. Mamm., livr xxi, with plate (1820); 



Raffles Linn. Trans., xiii, p. 251 ; Miiller Over de Zoogdieren in Tem. 



Verhandl., p. 30 ; Cantor J. A. S. B., xv, p. 197. 



Distribution. — Malay Peninsula, Sumatra (Raffles), Borneo 

 Celebes and Amboyna (Miiller), Philippines (Gunther). 



