2 4° LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



X. WOOLLY PALM-CIVET. PARADOXURUS LANIGER. 



Paradoxurus laniger, Hodgson, Asiat. Researches, vol. xix. p 

 79 (1836) ; Blanford, Proc. Zool. Soc. 18S5, p. 807; id., 

 Mamm. Brit. India, p. 114 (1888). 

 Paguma hvn'gcr, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 55 (1843). 



Characters. — An imperfectly known species only provisionally 

 included in the genus. Tail only about half the length of the 

 head and body, very thick at the root, and rapidly tapering ; 

 fur very close and woolly. Toe-pads surrounded by hair ; and 

 the claws short. Colour uniform rufescent brown. 



Distribution. — ? Tibet. Known only by a single badly pre- 

 served skin purchased by Hodgson in Nipal. 



XI. GENUS ARCTICTIS. 



Arctictis, Temminck, Prospcc. Monogr. Mamm. (1824); id., 



Monogr. Mamm. vol. i. p. xxi. vol. ii. p. 308 (1835). 

 ft/fdes, Valenciennes, Ann. Sci. Nat. vol. iv. p. 57 (1824). 



From the whole of the foregoing genera the present one is 

 distinguished by the completely naked tarsus and metatarsus 

 of the plantigrade hind-fe_t, by the presence of long pencils of 

 hairs surmounting the short ears, and by the long tail being 

 thoroughly prehensible. The short, compressed, and slightly- 

 curved claws are only partially retractile ; the coarse fur is 

 long and shaggy ; the pupil of the eye is vertically elongated ; 

 and the large glands in front of the scrotum of the male open 

 into a deep fold. There are generally only three pairs of lower 

 pre-mo'ars, but the number of the teeth is otherwise the same 

 as in Viverm, and in some individuals the missing pair of pre- 

 molars are developed. With the exception of the canines, 

 which are large and curved, with a sharp hinder edge, the 

 teeth are relatively small, both the incisors and molars being 

 separated from one another by gaps. Not unfrequently the 

 last pair of upper molars is wanting. 



