On the ^fasked Civets of Western China. 617 



21. Mai'mosa ele<jans sponsoria^ Thos. 



S . 1468, 1473, 1484, 1497 ; ? . 1481, 1505. Hi-uerilla. 

 2000 m. 



I am inclined to suppose that sponsoria slionUl not have 

 been separated from Cinderella, but will not definitely suppress 

 the name until a better series is available from Tucuman, 

 the type-locality of the latter. 



22. Mannosa elegans pallidior, Thos. 

 ? . 1409 (imm.). Alfarcito, 2600 m. 



LXI. — The Masked Civets (Paguma) of Western China. 

 By Oldfield Thomas. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



The British Museum has received two examples of Paguma 

 from Yunnan, collected by the Rev. W. N. Fer<>usson, and 

 these I find to be nearly allied to the form from Burma and 

 the Shan States, described by Wroughton as Payama larvata 

 intrudens *. 



This latter is an animal larger than the South and Eastern 

 Cliina P. larvata, hut I find that two specimens from Western 

 China (Sui-ling, Chung-king, and Iciiang) are also of the 

 same comparatively large size, as is that from Yunnan, so 

 that it is evident that the Pagumas of the Upper Yaiig-tze 

 and of the Shan States are all consistently larger than true 

 P. larvata. 



Inter se, however, these large Pagumas seem divisible 

 into three races, which might be treated as subspecies, as 

 follows : — 



1. P. I. tntrudens, Wroughton. 



General colour duller, browner. Suborbital white patch 

 huge. Wiiite of nape at a maximum, passing down to or 

 past the withers. Tail black terminally for about 16 inches. 



JJab. Burma and Shan States. 



2. P. I. yunalis, subsp. n. 

 General colour brighter, warmer, the ends of the hairs 



» Journ. Bombay N. H. See. xix. p. 793 (1910). 

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