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a sharp point directed towards the tarsus, the latter being 
completely covered with hair. Another peculiarity is that the 
direction of the hair on the back of the neck is reversed, so as 
to be inclined forwards. When there are any markings on the 
back, these are in the form of uninterrupted transverse bands. 
The five-toed feet have strongly-curved claws ; and the nose 
and upper lip, as in all the foregoing genera, are marked by a 
median groove. The number of the teeth is the same as in 
Viverra. 
The genus is confined to the countries lying to the eastward 
of the Bay of Bengal. 
I. HARDWICKE’S HEMIGALE. HEMIGALE HARDWICKEI. 
Viverra hardwickit, Gray, Spicil. Zool. p. 9 (1830). 
Hlemigalus zebra, Jourdan, Comptes Rendus, vol. v. p. 442 
(1837). 
Paradoxurus derbianus, Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. i. p. 579 
(1837). 
Paradoxurus zebra, Gray, loc. cit. 
Viverra boiet, Miller, Tijdschr. Natuur. Ges. vol. v. p.144 (1863). 
Femigalea derbiana, Blyth, Cat. p. 46 (1863). 
Hemigalea hardwicket, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 524; 
id., Cat. Carniv. Brit. Mus. p. 57 (1869); Mivart, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 165. 
Hemigale hardwicket, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 73. 
(Plate XXIX.) 
Characters.—General colour of fur whitish-yellow, marked on 
the back with about seven uninterrupted reddish-brown trans- 
verse stripes, extending well down on to the flanks ; there are 
also three stripes on the head, and two down the neck, together 
with some irregular markings on the shoulders, the under 
parts and feet being uniformly coloured, and the tail ringed 
at the base, but elsewhere black. Length of head and body, 
about 151% inches; of tail, 1614 inches, 
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