236 SOME CHINESE VERTEBRATES. 



VIVERRIDAE. 







VIVERRICULA PALLIDA (Gray). 



A female from Ichang, Hupeh, agrees well with Bonhote's (1898, p 119) 

 description. The black collar is lacking on the under side of the throat, which is 







uniformly colored like the belly. Above is a narrow black stripe on each side 

 of the neck, and an indistinct median one. The shoulders are without stripes 

 or spots, but the lower back and rump have five or six well-marked narrow, black 

 stripes. Matschie (1908, p. 198) has described as a new species Viverricula 

 hanensis on the basis of a skin from Hankow. It is said to differ from V. pallida 

 through the absence of a cross stripe on the shoulder and the possession of six 

 well-marked longitudinal stripes on the back and eight instead of six dark rings 

 on the tail. Our specimen has six rings with an indication of a seventh, but 

 otherwise does not materially differ from this description, though the longitudinal 

 stripes on the back might be considered as five, six, or seven owing to the indis- 

 tinctness of the outer ones. In view of the great variation in color of these 

 animals, as pointed out by Bonhote, and the fact that no cranial characters are 

 mentioned by Matschie, it seems best for the present to consider the Ichang 

 specimen as V. pallida. Its mesurements, taken by the collector, are: total 

 length, 830; tail, 290; hind foot, 91. 



The skull measures: greatest length, 95; basal length, 88; zygomatic 

 breadth, 42; mastoid breadth, 30; length of bulla, 20; mandible from condyle 

 to tip of incisor, 65 ; upper tooth row (exclusive of incisors) , 37 ; lower tooth 

 row (exclusive of incisors), 41. 



CANIDAE. 



VULPES VULPES WADDELLI Bonhote. 



A trade skin from Lhassa, Tibet, seems to be of this race, which according 

 to Bonhote, differs from V. v. flavescens of northwest India in having the mid- 

 dorsal area a bright red in contrast to the rest of the upper surface. In flaves- 

 cens this portion is more uniform and of a more brownish yellow. 



NYCTEREUTES STEGMANNI Matschie. 



Professor Matschie has briefly characterized several geographical races 

 of the Raccoon dog from eastern Asia in his report on the mammals of the 



