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larger or smaller admixtug@of white hairs. Length of head 
and body, from 24 to 25 inches; of tail, inclusive of the ter- 
minal hairs, about the same. 
Distribution.—The Himalaya from Simla to Assam, Arakan, 
and the Andamans ; possibly also some parts of the plains of 
India. 
VII. THE CHINESE. PALM-CIVET. PARADOXURUS LARVATUS. 
Gulo larvatus, Griffith, Animal Kingdom, vol. ii. p. 281 
(1827 59¢% eram.MiS5.): 
Viverra larvata, Gray, Spicil. Zool. p. 9 (1830). 
FPaguma larvata, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1831, p. 95. 
Paradoxurus larvatus, Gray, op. cit. 1832, p. 67; Blanford, 
Proc. Zool. 50c, 1885, p. S05; 
Characters.—Very similar to the preceding, but smaller. 
General colour light brownish-grey ; the terminal portions of 
the tail and limbs, parts of the head, and the neck and back 
between the shoulders black or blackish ; a broad white stripe 
down the middle of the forehead and nose; a white spot 
beneath the eye and another behind it (which join to form a 
streak), sharply defined against the blackness of the rest of the 
face. 
Vistribution—Southern China and Formosa. 
VIII. WHITE-WHISKERED PALM-CIVET. PARADOXURUS ; 
LEUCOMYSTAX. 
Paradoxurus leucomystax, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 88; 
Blanford, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1335, p. $05. . 
Paradoxurus jourdant, Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. 1. p. 579 
(1837). 
Paguma leucomystax, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 55 
(1843). 
Paradoxurus ogilbyi, Fraser, Zool. Typ. pl. x. (1849). 
