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Viven-a larvata. Gray, Spic. Zool. p. 9. 



Paguma larvata. Gray, Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc. i. p. 96. 



13. Paradoxurus TRiviRGATUs. Par. nigrescenti-grispus, infrd 

 griseus ; capite saluratiore ; dorso fasciis tribus longitudinalibus 

 medils nigrescentibus ; pedibits caudaque corpore longiore nigris ; 

 facie immaculatd. 



Viverra trivirgata. Reinio., Mus. Leyd. 



This species is described from a specimen in the Leyden Museum, 

 sent from the Moluccas. The teeth agree wiih those of the genus in 

 every particular, except that the cheek-teeth are rather shorter. 



14. Paradoxurus? binotatus. 



Viverra binotata. Reinw'., Gray, Spic. Zool. p. 9. 



Mr. Gray referred this anitnal to the genus Paradoxurv.s with some 

 doubt, he not having seen the teeth. Its walk, hovvever, is truly 

 plantigrade. The habitat of Ashantee, given to it in the Leyden Mu- 

 seum, may be ąuestioued : it vvas obtained from an old Dutch col- 

 lection, in vvhich it is possible that the localities were not strictly 

 preserved. 



To this enumeration Mr. Gray added the indicalion of an animal 

 knovvn only by a rough sketch brought by Mr. Finlayson from Šiam, 

 and deposited in the Library of the East India Company. This he 

 proposed to call Paradoxurus Finluysonii, and described as being pale 

 brovvn ; with a band across the middle of the muzzle, and anotiier 

 across the orbits (including the eyes and expanding on the back of 

 the cheek), the ears, and three continuous narrovv lines along the 

 middle of the back, blackish brown ; the feet blackish ; and the tail 

 cylindrical. He also considered it probable that the Civette de Ma- 

 lacca of Sonnevat, Voy. t. 91, the Viverra M alaccensis oi Gmt\\n, be- 

 longed to this genus, with which it agreed in several particulars of 

 its mode of colouring, although it diftered in having a black streak 

 along the middle line of its belly, a character confined to fevv among 

 the Mammalia. 



VVith respect to the Paradoxurus aureiis of M. F. Cuvier, he stated 

 that he was inclined to believe that it really belonged to the genus on 

 account of its naked soles, but vvas certainly not, as had been ima- 

 gined, the young of Par. Typus. 



Mr. Gray added, that figures of the Parr. Pennantii, Bondar, pre- 

 hensilis, Pallasii, and Hamiltonii, are engraved for the forthcoming 

 No. of the ' lUustrations of Indian Zoology '. 



Preparations were exhibited of the stomach and cacuiii of a Ca- 

 promys vvhich had recently died at the Society's Gardens, and Mr. 

 Ovven read his notes of the dissection of the animal. He commenced 

 by remarking that its external characters agreed vvith those described 

 by M. Desmarest as existing in his Cupromys Fournieri; vvhile its ad- 

 measurements, especially those taken from the osseous system, cor- 

 responded closely with those given by Mr. Say in the Journal of the 

 Academy of Natūrai Sciences of Philadelphia, when describing his 



