214 MamMALIA OF INDIA. 
these bands is a white rather wavy stripe, commencing at the ear, and 
continued along the neck above the shoulder and down the side to the 
thighs, becoming more irregular behind ; below this again is a dark 
band somewhat broken up into spots in front, passing over the shoulder _ 
and continued as a line of large spots along the side. The back is 
chiefly brownish-black, crossed by six narrow transverse whitish bands, 
the first five equidistant, the foremost communicating with the mesial 
neck band, and the hinder all uniting with the white band on the side, 
so as to break up the dark colour into large spots. There are small 
spots on the fore neck, lower portion of the sides, and outside of the 
limbs, the spots in the neck forming an imperfect gorget. The white 
rings on the tail are not much more than half the breadth of the dark 
Prionodon maculosus. 
rings ; the last ring near the tip and the first white ring are narrower 
than the others ; nose dark brown mixed with grey ; a dark ring round 
each orbit, with a streak running back to below the ear, and another 
passing up to the crown ; forehead between and behind the eyes and in 
front of the ears and cheeks pale grey; ears rounded and clad with 
blackish hairs outside and near the margin inside, a few long pale 
hairs on the inner surface of the ear conch ; whiskers long, extending 
to behind the ears, the upper brown, the lower entirely white ; soles, 
except the pads, which are naked, covered with fine hair.” The above 
careful description is by Mr. W. T. Blanford on specimens collected by 
Mr. Davison in Burmah. Mr. Davison lately showed me a beautiful 
specimen, which I should describe by a reverse process to Mr. Blan- 
ford’s, taking the light colour as the ground work, and stating it to 
