a new 



Pa2:ania. 377 



lype. Old male. B.M. no. 93. 3. 4. 5. Collected July, 

 1892, by A. Everett. 



Its peculiar buffy-olivaceous colour and small size will 

 readily distinguish the Bornean Paradoxure from P. philippi- 

 nensisy with which it was united by Blauford. 



Paguma larvata hainana^ subsp. n. 



Markings particularly prominent. Tail nearly all black. 

 Molars large. 



Size about normal. Fur coarse and harsh, not nearly so 

 ]-ich as in true larvata. Ends of dorsal hairs strong butFy. 

 Head-markings very strikingly contrasted, sharply defined ; 

 median white line pure white to between the ears, and then 

 continued, rather less pure, down the nape nearly to the end 

 of the black nuchal area ; black bands bordering it on fore- 

 head broad, very deep black ; supraorbital white spots small, 

 infraorbital fairly large, sharply defined ; anteaural spots 

 small. Chin black, succeeded behind by a well-marked 

 whitish collar. Belly dull brownish white. Hands and feet 

 black. Tail black, all but its basal three inches above and 

 six below. 



First upper molar larger than in true larvata, conspicu- 

 ously larger than in subsp. taivana ; its surface, in the 

 unworn state, comparatively flat, the postero-external cu.-;p 

 obsolete. (!larnassial scarcely or not larg.T than in larvata. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in skin) : — 



Head and body 4/0 mm. ; tail 425 ; hind fojt 76. 



Upper carnassial, length on outer edge 7'G, greatest 

 diameter 8; m^ 68 x 7'6. 



Hdb. Five-Finger Mountains, Hainan. 



Ti/pe. Immature male. B.M. no. 9iK 9. 2. 1. Collected 

 April or May, 1899, by :Mr. John Whitehead. 



Dr. Matschie has suggested that the Formosan form of 

 P. larvata, P. I. taivana^ Swinh., may be the same as the 

 original larvata, but it has not tlie well-marked whitish 

 collar mentioned in Hamilton Smith's description and present 

 in examples from the Lower Yang-tse. Its first upper molar 

 is much smaller than in the mainland specimens, in marked 

 contrast to that of the present animal, in which this tooth ia 

 much larger. 



