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Blanford observes that in the present species the pale ground- 

 colour prevails much more than in the next ; the upper-parts 

 of the former being marked by irregularly-shaped blackish spots 

 on a pale ground, whereas the upper surface of the latter is 

 dark, with a few white streaks dividing the colour into patches. 

 On the tail of L. gracilis the dark rings, especially towards the 

 tip, are shorter than the white ones, and there is a long white 

 tip, whereas in the next species the dark rings are nearly 

 double the length of the white ones, and the white tip is shorter. 

 Length of head and body, about i$}4 inches; of tail, i2}4 

 inches. 



Distribution. — Java, Borneo, and perhaps Sumatra. 



Nothing has been recorded of the habits of this species. 



II. THE BURMESE LINSANG. LINSANGA MACULOSA. 



Prionodon macu/osus, Blanford, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 



xlvii. p. 152 (1878) ; id., Mamm. Brit. India, p. 104 (1888). 

 Linsang maculosus, Thomas, Ann. Mus. Genova, ser. 2, vol. x. 



p. 9 (1892). 

 Characters.^Size large ; upper-parts covered with large black 

 patches; tail rather shorter than the head and body. Ground- 

 colour of fur grey, marked with about six broad irregular trans- 

 verse brownish-black bands across the back ; the light spaces 

 being thus reduced to narrow stripes. On the sides of the 

 body the dark bands broken up into interrupted longitudinal 

 stripes, one of which passes across the shoulder to the side of 

 the neck, and is continued as a line of spots to the eye. On the 

 upper part of the sides of the neck a broader black stripe passes 

 from a short distance behind the ear across the shoulder, where 

 it merges into the transverse bands. A few spots between the 

 upper stripes on the neck, and likewise on the fore-neck and 

 outer surfaces of the limbs ; but the under-parts and feet uni- 

 formly pale-coloured. Tail with seven complete black rings, 



