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neck irrefrular in direction, as in brachynrus. Legs, feet, 

 and tail blackish brown. 



Skull of normal shape, with comparatively long muzzle. 

 In the type the breadtii across the outer coiners of prn^ does 

 not exceed the length of the premolar-molar series. Teeth 

 comparatively light and delicate, the usual thickening of the 

 inner lobe of m^ at a minimum. 



Dimensions of the type : — 



Hind foot (s. u.) (wet) 79 mm. Skull, gnathion to back 

 of bulla 82 ; zygomatic breadth 48"5; front of canine to back 

 of ni^ 33 ; breadth between outer corners of carnassial 27*5 ; 

 length of carnassial on outer edge 7"8. 



Hah. Sumatra. Type from Deli. 



Type. Arlult female. B.M. no. 90.1.20.2. Collected 

 3rd November, 1888, by Mr. Iverson. Received in exchange 

 from the Christiania Museum. 



Herpestes hrachyurus rajah. 



General colour dark blackish olivaceous, profus-^ly ticked 

 with the minute subterminal buffy rings on the hairs. Belly 

 black, witiiout lighter tickings, this colour running forward 

 anteriorly along the lower side of the neck nearly to the level 

 of the ears, the hairs in this anterior region being all 

 definitely directed forwards. Head dull brown, interramia 

 lighter, but neither with any suft'usion of rufous or ochraceous. 

 Tail coarsely grizzled black and pale bufFy. 



Skull of normal shape; teeth of medium stoutness, de- 

 cidedly heavier than in sumatrius. 



Dimensions of type : — 



Hind foot (dry) 80 mm. Skull : condylo-basal length 

 84'5 ; zygomatic breadth 46'5; maxillary tooth-row 33; 

 breadth between outer corners of carnassials 28'5 ; length of 

 cariuissial on outer edge 8*4. 



Hah. Sarawak. Type from Balinean, in lowlands. 



Type. Adult female. B.M. no. 5. 3. 1. 8. Original 

 number 16. Collected March 1903, and presented by 

 Herbert C. Robinson, Esq. Other specimens received in 

 1876 from Mr. H. Low, and in 1878 trom Governor H. T. 

 Ussher. 



Herpestes hrachyurus dyacorum. 



General coloration as in rajah, but the whola more or less 

 suffused with rufous or ochraceous, the pale rings on the 

 dorsal hairs of the latter colour. Belly black, though with a 

 certain number of light ticked hairs, the dark colour running 

 I'orward on to the lower neck as in rajah, and the hairs being 



