XIX. ON THE MONGOOSES OF HIK MALAY 

 PENINSI LA. 



B) C. Bodi \ Ki oss, F.Z.S. 



Si\ species of mon now known to occur in the 



Mala) Peninsula, two of which arc described below. Oni ol 

 the six is apparently not indigenous; ii is: 



Mungos mungos (Gmel.). 

 Mangusta malaccensis, 1". Cuv., Mamm. pi. 189 (1819). 

 Herpestes griseus, Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, XV, 



p. Ja J I IN |<> 



Herpestes pallidus, Anderson. Zool. Researches, p. 181 

 [878). 



Herpestes mungo, Flower, P.Z.S.. tgoo, p. 331 : kloss. 

 Journ. F.M.S. Mus., II, p. [48 1908) ; id- journ. Straits 

 Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc, No. 5;. p. 27 nqog^. 



This animal is supposed to have been introduced from 

 India into Province Wellesley bj European planters: it is 

 apparently the typical form from Bengal ' with slightly 

 ferruginous face and feet and buff under-fui [vide Wroughton, 

 Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Bombay, XXIV, p. 51 u<U5)] but 

 should it prove different Cuvier's name will apply. 



flu- F.M.S Museums have examples from the district of 

 Lai ut. Perak, which is adjacent to Province Wellesley. and 

 also a specimen from Kuala Lumpur. Selangor. 



Measurements of a female from Taiping, Perak (No. 

 954/11): — Head and body. 373: tail. 282; hind-foot, 71: ear. 

 29 mm. 



Mungos urva (Hodg 



This species has not hitherto been recorded from the 

 Peninsula, [t is represented bj two examples an immature 

 female (permanent canines just appearing) and a juvenile 

 male from Trang. Siamese M ilaya, obtained in Januan [910 



indistinguishable, on description';, from Himalayan 

 and Indo-Chinese animals. 



Measurements of the female (No. C218 to) :— Head and 

 body, 151 : tail, 260: hind-foot, 96; ear 32.5. Skull: greatest 

 length. 91 : greatest breadth, [8 mm. 



Mungos brachyukus (Cray . 



Herpestes brachyurus, Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. (N.S.), 1, p. 578 



I Si 1 I'- nil. XV, p. i-j ! 1 1846 : 



on, Zool. Researches, p. [87 (1878); Flower, P.Z.S. 



