244 Dr. J. E. Gray on new Species of r.aguma. 



and of the fore and hind legs darker, with small white tips ; 

 the middle of the throat, the chest, and underside of the body 

 ashy ; the hairs on the underside of the middle of the tail 

 with long silver ends. Length of head and body 21 inches : 

 tail about the same length ; but it is |)robably lengthened, as it 

 is very slender and has a stick inside it. 



Hab. North Borneo. B.M. 



The white spot, from which Temminck named the species, 

 is very small and indistinct in the British-Museum specimen ; 

 but I suppose it is the same as his species, which comes from 

 Borneo, and which he describes as having a " pure white lon- 

 gitudinal band extending from the forehead to the origin of 

 the muffle, covering the ridge of the nose." 



It is to be observed that all the plain Paradoxuri have a 

 more or less distinct indication of a streak down the nose. 

 The other parts of Temminck's description agree with what a 

 brighter and more adult specimen of this animal would be. 

 This species is at once known from the other Pagumce by its 

 black whiskers, whereas in almost all the other species they are 

 white. The whiskers differ in strength in the species, being 

 strongest in P. leucomystax and most slender and weakest in 

 P. zeylanica. It is to be observed that though this is so 

 characteristic, it is not mentioned in Temminck's description. 



The British Museum received in 1870 the specimen of 

 Paradoxurus from the Andaman Islands presented to the 

 Zoological Society by Mr. Arthur Grote in May 1865, and 

 said to be Paradoxurus Tythri of Blyth (see P. Z. S. 1865, 

 p. 466). As I do not know where this very distinct species 

 is described, I send the following short note of it, as it is 

 perfectly distinct from all the other species in the British 

 Museum. 



2. Paguma Tytleri. 



Paradoxurus Tytleri, Blytli : P. Z. S. 1865, p. 466. 



Fur rather long, not dense, pale greyish brown, with long 

 white tips ; the sides of the neck, the throat and upper parts 

 of the body, and the insides of the limbs ashy white ; the face, 

 the sides of the lower jaw, and the fore and especially the 

 hind feet darkish brown ; the cheeks under the eye, the fore- 

 head, and a narrow line down the centre of the nose paler, 

 with paler tips to the hairs ; whiskers white, scarcely as strong 

 as in P. leucomystax. 



Ilah, Andaman Islands. B.M. 



