286 MAMMALIA. 



The following key is adopted from Blanford : — 



Key of the Indian Species. 



a. Forms with large teeth. 



b. Colour brown or yellowish brown, not gray. 



H. orientalis, p. 286. 



^2. Colour brownish gray. H. personata, p. 286. 



a^. Formslwith small teeth, H. moschata, p. 286. 



Helictis orientalis. 



Gulo orientalis, Horsfield Zool. Res. with plate (1824). 



Gulo nipalensis, Hodgson J. A. S. B., v, p. 237 (1836) ; id. J. A. S. B., vi, p. 560. 



Helictis nipalensis, Gray Cat. Hodgs. Coll., ist ed., p. 14 (1846) ; Horsfield 



Cat. E. I. Mus., p. 108; Gray P.Z. S., 1853, p. 191 ; Jerdon Mamm.,p. 80. 

 Helictis orientalis, Horsfield Cat. E. I. Mus., p. 106 (1851) ; Blanford 



Mammals, p. 173. 



Oker, Nepal. 



Disirihiition. — Nepal, Sikkim and Java. 



a. Skin, skull juv. nr. Darjeeling, 9-65 J. Anderson. 



Helictis personata. 



Melogale personata, Is. Geoff. St. Hil. Voy. aux Indes Orient. Belanger, 



P- 137. P'- V (i834)' 

 Mustela personata, Blainville Osteog., u, Mustela, p. 16; Atlas, \\,Mustela, 



pi. xiii (1839-64). , , o^ X 



Helictis orientalis, apud Blyth J. A. S. B., xxxi, p. 352 (1862). 

 Helictis nipalensis, apud Blyth Cat. no, 208, p. 70 (1863) ; id. J. A. S. B., 



xliv, Burma List, p. 29. 

 Helictis personata, Thomas P. Z. S., p. 59 (1886) ; Blanford Mammals, p. 174. 



Distribution.— h.ss,dixa, Manipur (Thomas) ; Tippera, Arakan 

 and Lower Burma. 



a. Skin Arakan Sir A. Phayre, 1843, 



A.S.B. 



b Stuffed, skull Arakan Sir A. Phayre, 1843, 



A.S.B. 



c. Stuffed Tippera dlst., Beng. F, Skipwith, 1845, A.S.B. 



d. Skeleton Rangoon, Burma Sir A. Phayre, 1843, 



A.S.B. 



e. Skin, skull Shillong, Assam T. laTouche. 



Helictis moschata. 



Helictis moschata, Gray P. Z.S., p. 94 (1831) ; Swinhoe P. Z. S., 1870, pp. 

 228 and 623 ; Anderson Anat. Zool. Res., p. 193. 



