176 Records of the Indian Museum. [Voi,. XIX, 



Another from Darjiling has the pelage softer and more woolly 

 as might be expected from the climatological conditions : it 

 represents V . undulata, Gray {Spic. Zool. pi. 8, p. 9) which, how- 

 ever, we are not at present prepared to recognize. The same type 

 of animal is found in the Abor Hills. Another specimen without 

 locality (Zool. Survey India No. 10,391 ) is indeterminable sub- 

 specifically : the flanks are distinctly marked, but there is a 

 tendency to interruption of the white tail bands. 



V. z. picta described by Wroughton on the same page, but 

 before V. z. pruinosa (postea), and based on animals from 

 Kharati, Upper Chindwin, Burma, has since been withdrawn by 

 that author {op. cit.^ XXVI, 1918, p. 46). It must, presumably, 

 be regarded as synonymous with V . z. zihetha. 



Viverra zibetha pruinosa, Wroughton. 

 Journ. Bombay, Nat. Hist. Soc. XXIV, 1915, p. 64 (Tenasserim). 

 Mr. Wroughton appears to have inadvertently reversed 

 the characters of this subspecies. So far from being greyer and 

 less yellowish than the typical race, specimens from Tenasserim 

 and neighbouring districts are invariably more yellow and less 

 grey. We are in possession of two paratypes ; also an example 

 from Koh Lak, S.W. Siam, in the same latitude, and another 

 from Sriracha, S.E. Siam, a little to the north on the opposite 

 side of the Gulf of Siam. 



Viverra zibetha sigillata subsp. nov. 



Viverra zibetlia pruinosa, Kloss (iiec Wroughton), Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 Siam, II, 1917, p. 292 



Type. Adult male (skin and skull) : Bang Nara, Patani, 

 Peninsular Siam, collected by Messrs. W. J. F. Williamson and 

 M. A. Smith's native collector. 16th July, 1916. No. 2477/C.B.K. 



Differs from the two other races in having the pattern above 

 clearly defined ; the forelimbs with a distinct tendency to bars 

 and the under s-urface with dark blotches and markings more 

 defined on the flanks. External measurements (taken in the 

 fiesh):"Head and body, 818 ; tail, 435 ; hindfoot (without claw) 

 121 ; ear, 51mm. Skull measurements : — greatest length, 142 ; 

 basal length, 130 ; zygomatic breadth, 67*5 ; breadth of brain 

 case, 39 ; maxillary tooth row exclusive of incisors (alveoli) 53 ; 

 greatest length of uppei sectorial, I4'7 mm. 



Specimens examined. The type ; one from Pelarit, Perils ; 

 two from Perak (Temangoh and Taiping) and two from Selangor 

 (Kuala lyumpur). 



Viverra megaspila megaspila, Blyth. 



Two adults from Taiping and Kuala lyUmpur. The black 

 spots on the sides and haunches stand out with great distinction 



