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Distribution. This well-marked form is found east of the Bay of 

 Bengal, from Sylhet, and, according to Sterndale, Assam, through 

 Arakan and Tenasserim to Malacca, Sumatra, and Java. Said by 

 Mason to be common in Tenasserim. 



Habits. Nothing particular recorded. When taken young 

 A. Imcotis is easily domesticated. Tickell and, probably, Mason 

 mistook the Tenasserim form of P. Itermaphroditus for this species. 



The type of Blyth's Pcmtdoxumis leucotis, that originally described 

 by Horstield, is now in the British Museum, and is a young and 

 pale specimen of the present form. 



Hemiyale liardwickd (Paradoonirus derbynnus), a Malayan animal 

 allied to Paradoxuru-s, and formerly referred to that genus, is dis- 

 tinguished by having the soles of the feet naked to a much smaller 

 extent, though more than in Viverra or Prionodon, and by its den- 

 tition. The coloration -is very peculiar, pale brownish grey, with 

 a variable number (usually 5 or (j) of broad, dark transverse bands 

 on the back, longitudinal stripes on the nape, and rings on the 

 basal portion of the tail. This animal ranges from the Malay 

 Peninsula to Borneo. 



Genus ARCTICTIS, Temminck, 1824. 

 Syn. Ictidcs, Valenciennes. 



Tail long and truly prehensile. Ears short, tufted. Feet 

 thoroughly plantigrade, the whole hinder surface of tarsus and 



Fig. 32. Skull of Arctidls binturong. 



metatarsus being naked. Claws short, half retractile, compressed, 

 slightly curved. Fur coarse and long. Pupil vertical. Large 

 pivscrotal glands opening into a deep fold. 



