new Species of Paradoxuius. 375 



Puradoxurus minax, sp. n. 



Size markedly larger than in the Luzon P. phiUppinensis^ 

 about equalling tliat of the Indian P. niger. General colour 

 uniform dark brown, less mottled than in p/ti'ippinensis ; 

 three broken lines of black spots fairly well defined on the 

 back. Light frontal band little conspicuous. Crown and 

 backs of cars blackish brown. Limbs^ feet, and tail uniformly 

 daik. 



Skull similar to that of pliilippinfnsis, but conspicuously 

 laiger throughout. Teeth of the same general rounded shape, 

 the carnassial with a heavy postero-internal ledge. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in skin) : — 



Head and body 580 mm.; tail (broken in type, 440 mm. 

 in another specimen of about equal size) ; hind foot 75. 



Skull : basal length 98 ; condylo-basal length 105 ; 

 greatest breadth 60 ; length of nasals in middle line 19-5 ; 

 interorbital breadth 19; breadth of brain-case 31; palatal 

 foramina 5'5 ; palatal length 47 ; p'^, length on outer edge 8'4, 

 greatest diagonal diameter 9'6. 



Ilab. (of type). Davao, S. Mindanao. 



'Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 7. 2. 2. 6. Original num- 

 ber 766. Collected by M. P. Anderson. Presented by 

 His Grace the Duke of Bedfoid, K.G. 



This species is readily distinguishable from any of the 

 ether species in the neighbourhood by its markedly larger 

 skull. 



I also refer to this species the adult and young specimens 

 collected by Cuming in the Islet of Camiguin, just N. of 

 Mindanao, which were called '' P. zfylanicus''' (fortunately 

 as a nomen nudum) in Gray's ' List of Mammals ' of 1843"^. 



Paradoxurus torvus^ sp. n. 



Size about as in P. philippinensis. General colour dark 

 coppery brown (between mummy-brown and vandyke- 

 brown), approaching that of the S. -Indian P.jerdoni. Face 

 wholly blackish, without lighter markings, as are also the 

 backs of the ears, the nape to the withers, and tiie rump. 

 Back with three inconspicuous black lines. Fore and hind 

 limbs and tail blackish brown. Under surface dark chocolate- 

 brown. 



Skull most like that of P. philipjnnensis, the teeth of 



* List Mamm. B. M. p. 55 (1843). 



