MAMMALIA. 717 



Sp. Gulo orientals Hoesf., Zool. Res. No. ii, Melogale fusca Isid. Geoffr., 

 GUER. Mac/as. 1835, CI. i. PI. 16; Java, &c. 



5 — 5 

 Meles Stoee (Spec, of genus 3feles Bodd.), Molar teeth ^ — ^ , 

 3—3 0—0 



false J — 2 5 with first upper very small, deciduous. Lower laniary 



tooth with tubercles and internal process. Upper tuberculate tooth 



very large, lower often wanting through age. Glandular follicle 



under tail. Feet plantigrade ; claws of fore feet large, fossorial. 



Tail short. Body depressed, covered with long, setose hair. (Dent. 



. 3-3 1-1 4-4 1-1 ' _ „ . 



form. 1. g— g , c. ^-— j- , p. ^^-^ , ra. ^— y = 36, Owen.) 



Sp. Meles vulgaris Desm., ifeles taxus Bodd., Ursus Meles L., Buff, vii, 

 PI. 7, ScHEEB. Sdugth. Tab. 1^2, Gdbr. Iconogr., Mamm. PI. 14, fig. i ; 

 the badger, le blaireau, der Dachs; grey above, the belly and legs black; 

 a black stripe obliquely from the eyes along the whitish head ; in Europe 

 and Northern Asia. — Meles lahradoria Sat, Wagn., Meles hudsonius Gov., 

 Buff. Siq^pl. in. PL 49, Richardson Faun. hor. Am. 1. PI. 2 ; very like 

 the preceding, but somewhat smaller, ruddy grey, with white under sur- 

 face ; claws longer. Compare on the skull of this species Waterhouse 

 Zool. Transact, ii. 5, ICS41, pp. 343 — 348, PI. 59. — Meles amakuma Temm. 

 Faun. Japan., Mammal. PI. 6. — The badgers are nocturnal animals, which 

 dig holes and live principally on vegetable food. 



Mellivora Storr, F. Cuv., Batelus SwAiNSON, Wagn. Molar 



4—4 2—2 



teeth J — 2 5 f^lse 5 — 5 '■> tuberculate tooth in upper jaw only 



one on each side, transverse. Lower laniary tooth with margin 



acute, tricuspidate, upper with conical anterior and inner tubercle. 



Cutaneous border around the external auditory meatus, rudiment of 



ear. Short plantigrade feet, the anterior with large claws. Head 



.3—3 1—1 

 short. Hair long, rigid. (Dent. form. OwEN, i. ^ — ^ , c. :j ^ , 



3-3 1-1 „,, ^-" 1-1 



P- 333' ^-1^1 = 32.) 



Sp. Mellivora capensis, Viverra capensis (and Viv. mellivora) Gm., Schreb. 

 Sdugth. Tab. 125, Cuv. R. Ani., ed. ill., Mammif. PI. 33, fig. 4; above 

 grey, below black, a white stripe where the two colours separate. This 

 species lives at the Cape of Good Hope, in Mosambique, &c. It digs out 

 the nests of wild bees, which it finds by observing and following these 

 insects at evening time; feeds also on birds, rats and snakes (Peters). 

 The absence of the tuberculate tooth in the lower jaw is a remarkable 

 anomaly of this family, but in other respects the molars almost correspond 

 with those of Galictis (see above, p. 715). — Mellivora indica, Ursus indicus 

 Shaw, Haedwicke, Linn. Trans, ix. p. ii£, Bennett Gard. and Menag. 

 of the Zool, Soc. i. pp. 13 — 20; much resembling the preceding, but without 



