mydaus. 289 



Distribution. — Europe, Northern Asia, Turkestan (Severtzoff), 

 Persia (Blanford), and Asia Minor (Alston). 



[Type of M. canescens, Blanford.] 



Meles leucura. 



Taxidea leucura, Hodgson J. A. S. B., xvi, p. 763, pis. xxix-xxxi (1847) > 

 Blyth Cat. no. 209, p. 70 ; Gray Cat. Hodgs. Coll., 2nd ed., p. 7. 



Meles leucurus, Gray P. Z. S., p. 190 (1853) ; id. Cat. Cam. Mamm., p. 

 126 ; Horsfield Ann. Mag. N. H. (2) xvi, p. 108. 



Tibetan, Tumpha. 

 Distribution. — Thibet. 



a. Skin Thibet A. Campbell, 1853, A.S.B. 



Meles sp. ? 



Meles sp., Blanford Yarkand Mammals, p. 25. 

 a. Skin Kashgar F. Stoliczka. 



Genus MYDAUS. 



Mydaus, F. Cwvier Hist. Nat. Mamm, livr. xxvii (1821). 



Mydaus meliceps. 



Mydaus meliceps, F. Cuvier Hist. Nat. Mamm. livr. xxvii (1821) ; Horsfield 

 Cat. E. I. Mus., p. 109 ; Gray Cat. Cam. Mamm., p. 131 ; Forbes P. Z. S., 

 1879, p. 664. 



Mephitis javanensis, Desmarest Mamm., p. 187 (1820) ; Raffles Linn. 

 Trans-, xiii, p. 251. 



Distribution. — Java (Horsfield), Sumatra (Raffles), Borneo 

 (I.M.) 



a. Skeleton Borneo J. Anderson. 



