264 LLOYD’S NATURAL HISTORY. 
Distribution. Himalaya rn Nipal to Assam, Arakan, Burma, 
North Tenasserim, and Southern China. 
Habits.—This species is stated to be sub-aquatic in its habits, 
feeding largely upon Crabs and Frogs. 
XX. THE WHITE-TAILED MUNGOOSE. HERPESTES ALBICAUDA. 
Hlerpestes albicaudus, Cuvier, Regne Anim. ed. 2, vol. i. p. 158 
(1829). 
FHerpestes leucurus, Ehrenberg, Sym’. Phys. pl. xii. (1830). 
Ichneumia albescens, 1. Geoffroy, Mag. Zool. vol. vii. p. 394 
(1855). 
Herpestes loempo, Temminck, Esquisses Zool. p. 93 (1853); 
Matschie, Mittheil. deutsch. Schutzgebieten, vol. vi. art. 3, 
p. 11 (1893). 
Ichneumia nigricauda, Pucheran, Rev. Mag. Zool. vol. vii. p. 
394 (1855). 
Ichneumia abu-wudan, Fitzinger and Heuglin, S.B. Ak. Wien, 
vol. liy. pt. 1. p. 564 (13866). 
LTerpestes (Ichneumia) albicauda, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1802, ). 75. 
Herpesies albicaudatus, Thomas, of. cit. 1889, p. 622. 
fTlerpestes albicauda, Thomas, of. cit. 1894, p. 450. 
With this species we revert to the Ethiopian members of the 
genus. 
Characters.—From all the species noticed above, the pre- 
sent one is distinguished by having the whole of the lower 
surface of the tarsus covered with hair, by the upper carnassial 
tooth being only about one-fourth longer than the last molar, 
and by the presence of three cusps on the outer side of the 
last lower tooth. It has been separated as a genus or sub- 
genus, under the name of Jchneumia, and connects the more 
typical forms with the under-mentioned Baeogade. 
