2go . MAMMAl.iA. 



Genus ARCTONYX. 



Arctonyx, F. Cuvier Hist. Nat. Mamm. livr. li (1825). 



Besides the two Indian species mentioned below, Milne Edwards 

 (Recherches Mamm., p. 195) has described two other species : 

 Arctonyx leucolaemus from the neighbourhood of Pekin, and A. 

 obscurus from Thibet. 



Key of the Indian Species. 



a. Skull about 6 in, in length; 4th upper premolar with two internal 

 cusps and with the larger external cusp about equidistant 

 from the anterior and posterior ends of the tooth, which 

 is of a distinctly triangular shape. A. collaris, p. 290. 



fl2. Skull about 4 in. in length ; size about half that of A. collaris ; 

 4th upper premolar with no internal cusps, the large external 

 cusp being at the anterior end of the tooth, and the tooth 

 itself approaching a quadrangular form. 



A. taxoides, p. 291, 



Arctonyx collaris. 



Arctonyx collaris, F. Cuvier Hist. Nat. Mamm. livr. li (1825) ; Evans J. A. S. 

 B., vii, p. 732; id. ibid, viii, p. 408; Horsfield Cat. E. I. Mus., p. 114; 

 Gray. Cat. Hodgs. Coll., 2nd ed., p. 7 ; Walker Calc. Journ. N. H., 

 iii, p. 265 ; Blyth Cat. no. 212, p. 71 ; Jerdon Mamm., p. 77; Gray Cat. 

 Cam. Matnm., p. 122; McMaster Notes on Jerdon, p. 15; Anderson 

 Anat. Zool. Res., p. 196 ; Blyth J. A. S. B., xliv, Burma List, p. 29; Blau' 

 ford Mammals, p. ij8. 



Mydaus collaris, Gray Illustr. Ind. Zool., i, pis. vi and vii (1830). 



Mephitis assamensis, McClelland Ind. Rev., ii p. 509 (1S38). 



Arctonyx isonyx, Horsfield P. Z. S., p. 398, pi. 1 (1856). 



The Hog Badger; Bhalu sur (= bear pig), Hind.; Hunteree 

 bora, Assamese ; Khway-htoo-wet-htoo, Arakan ; Khwe-ta-wek- 

 wek-ta-wek, Burmese. 



Distribution. — Lower ranges and bases of the Himalayas, from 

 Nepal to Assam, Sylhet, Arakan, both Upper and Lower Burma, 

 not apparently found south of Tenasserim. 



