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and white in color. It has also a broad white band running down the head and 

 nose. It is rather smaller than the Himalayan palm-civet, although its exact di- 

 mensions are still unknown. In Southern China this palm-civet is found in 

 Hanghow, and the provinces of Kwangtung and Fokien ; and it likewise inhabits 

 the island of Formosa. 



THE SMALL-TOOTHED PALM-CIVETS 

 Genus Arctogale 



The two species of small-toothed palm-civets are distinguished (as their name 

 implies) , among other characteristics, from the members of the preceding genus by 

 their relatively smaller cheek-teeth, and have hence been referred to a distinct 

 genus, under the name of Arctogale. Externally these civets may be readily dis- 

 tinguished from the typical palm-civets by the soles of their feet being still more ex- 

 tensively naked, and likewise by the greater degree of divergence of the first toe of 

 both pairs of feet from the other digits. The white-eared small-toothed palm-civet 

 (A. leucotis} is an inhabitant of Assam, Burma, Tenasserirn, the Malay Peninsula, 

 Sumatra, and Java ; while the second species (A. trivirgata) is restricted to the 

 island last mentioned. The former is a short-furred animal, of a fulvous or dusky- 

 gray color, sometimes nearly brown on the back, and always paler below, with a 

 tail about as long as the head and body. It is readily distinguished by the pres- 

 ence of three dark bands, which may be either continuous, or broken up into spots, 

 running down the back of the otherwise uniformly-colored body. In a male speci- 

 men the total length of the head and body was twenty-six and one-half inches, and 

 that of the tail twenty-seven inches. When taken young it is said to be readily 

 tamed. The small size of the cheek-teeth especially the nearly triangular form 

 of the upper flesh-tooth suggests that it feeds largely upon vegetable substances. 

 The second species is closely allied, having three similar dark stripes down the 

 back. 



THE HEMIGALES 

 Genus Hemigale 



Another type of palm-civet is represented by the so-called Hemigale, for which 

 there does not appear to be any recognized English title. Of this genus there are 

 two species, the one, Hardwicke's hemigale (//". hardwickei}, found both in the 

 Malay Peninsula and Borneo, and the other, or Hose's hemigale (H. hosei\ con- 

 fined to Mount Dulit in the northern part of the latter island, where it has only re- 

 cently been discovered. The hemigales are distinguished from the other palm- 

 civets by having a much smaller portion of the soles of the feet naked, and likewise 

 by their coloration, which is different from that of any other representative of the 

 family, although approached to some extent by the linsangs. This characteristic 

 coloration takes the form, in the typical Hardwicke's hemigale, of a variable number 

 of broad transverse dark bands crossing the back, of which the ground color is a 



