2 3S Lloyd's natural history. 



larger or smaller admixture of white hairs. Length of head 

 and body, from 24 to 25 inches ; of tail, inclusive of the ter- 

 minal hairs, about the same. 



Distribution. — The Himalaya from Simla to Assam, Arakan, 

 and the Andamans ; possibly also some parts of the plains of 

 India. 



VII. THE CHINESE PALM-CIVET. PARADOXURUS LARVATUS. 



Gulo laruatus, Griffith, Animal Kingdom, vol. ii. p. 281 



(1827; ex Temm. MSS.). 

 Viverra larvata. Gray, Spicil. Zool. p. 9(1830). 

 Paguma larvata i Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1831, p. 95. 

 Paradoxurus larval us, Gray, op. tit. 1832, p. 67 ; Blanford, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 18S5, p. 805. 



Characters. — Very similar to the preceding, but smaller. 

 General colour light brownish-grey ; the terminal portions of 

 the tail and limbs, parts of the head, and the neck and back 

 between the shoulders black or blackish ; a broad white stripe 

 down the middle of the forehead and nose ; a white spot 

 beneath the eye and another behind it (which join to form a 

 streak), sharply defined against the blackness of the rest of the 

 face. 



distribution. — Southern China and Formosa. 



VIII. WHITE-WIIISKERED PALM-CIVET. PARADOXURUS j 



LEUCOMYSTAX. 



Yaradoxurus kucomystax, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 88; 



Blanford, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 805. 

 Paradoxurus jourdam] Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. i. p. 579 



(i837). 

 Paguma Ieucomystax i Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 55 



(1843). 

 Paradoxurus ogilbyi, Frascr, Zool. Typ. pi. x. (1849). 



