CARNIVORA. 



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tubercles passing* down on tlieir sides almost into the hollow of the 

 furrows. The animal is black when the spines lie flat, but when they 

 are pai^tially erected the white bands show, and a variegated appearance 

 is produced. lu the adult, with the spines 2*15* in length, there are two 

 white and three dark bands. The apical band is broad and deep shining 

 black, and it is succeeded by a white band nearly of the same breadth, 

 which is followed by a brown band with a white band below it, and 

 then a dusky basal band. These are the characters of two females 

 from Kurrachee. 



The hair generally is dusky-brown, with an intermixture of grey 

 hairs on the head and on the chin and throat ; the fur behind the latter 

 area and on the sides being paler brown than on the limbs, and on the 

 sides. A patch of white hairs occurs at the base of the anterior angle 

 of the ear; the inner surface of the ear is clad with short white hairs, 

 and the apical third of th0 back of the organ with similar hairs. The 

 moustaches are brown and reach behind the ear. The claws are yellow. 



Female. Male. 



Length of head and body 7'45" 5*85* 



„ tail ]-2f/ 0-91" 



,, ,, hind foot without claws 1"4&* I'^O* 



Height of ear- 1-40" ISb" 



Breadth of ear 0-76" 0-80" 



The skull (figs, c f g Vl.) is markedly distinct from the short and 

 especially broad skull of E. Grayi, and it has much smaller teeth than 

 that species. The very prominent characters of the mesial pad on the 

 hind foot, its larger ears and the presence of a large nude area on the 

 vertex as in E. microinis and E. pidus, are characters along with those 

 already indicated, separating it from E. Grayi. It resembles E. nigey-, 

 in having a bare mesial area on the vertex, but is distinguished from 

 that form by its smaller ear, and by its cranial characters as well. 

 Hah. — " Kurrachee, and Rohri in Sind" and Rajanpore, Trans Indus. 



ORDER ,— FER^, Linn. 



Incisors |, regular, erect; canines -^, conical; molars ^^ 



forming a regular continuous sei'ies, largest in the middle. Feet 

 clawed, thumb non-opposable ; teats abdominal, 4 or more. 



SUB-ORDEE,,— CARNIVORA. 



Grinders of three distinct forms ; premolars conical, separated from 

 the hinder tubercular molars by a sharp-edged flesh tooth, bearing a 

 tubercle on its inner side. 



Family, FELID^. 



Tubercular grinders small and in the upper jaw only. Dental 

 formula as in the Order. Flesh tooth three-lobod. Tongue covered 

 with papillae directed backwards^ and somewhat recurved. Claws 

 sheathed. 



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