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from tlie narrow whitish frontal hand. Occiput hlack and 

 sharply defined from the light frontal band, so differing from 

 the majority of specimens of P. javanicus, where the light 

 frontal band is very broad and gradually passes into the 

 grey occiput. 



Dimensions of tf/pe (measured on the mounted skin) : — 



Head and body 505 mm. ; tail 405. 



Skull: basilar length 101; zygomatic breadth 58 ; width 

 of brain-case at squamosal 35"2 ; palatilar length 46*8 ; 

 mastoid width 37 ; intertemporal constriction 17; length of 

 upper tooth-row from front of c to back of Wg (alv.) 40'5 ; 

 ^4, length 8*5, greatest oblique diameter 10*1. 



Type. Old male. Dresden Museum : No. B 1568 (mounted 

 skin); B 1534 (skull); (old catalogue No. 2086); from 

 Messrs. Ribb and Kiihn. 



Type locality. Botithain, S.E. Celebes. 



Paradoxurus cochinensis, sp. n. 



A small species related to P. hermapliroditus of Siam, but 

 with a different skull and dentition. 



Skull with very short intertemporal constriction as in 

 P. milhri from Tioman. Bullae very short, rounded in front, 

 and inflated between carotic canal and foramen lacerum 

 posteriiis. Cheek-teeth small. P^ complex; postero-internal 

 ledge narrow, ))aracone rather small. 



Upper parts light silvery grey with a slight reddish hue. 

 Three narrow dark brown longitudinal stripes, clearly made 

 up of coalescing spots. Light frontal band narrow, sharply 

 distinguished from the dark occiput. Limbs, terminal three- 

 quarters of tail, chin, and throat brown. Uuderfur . dark 

 brownish. {" Type specimen.") 



In a specimen from Nhatrang, Annam, in the British 

 Museum, and in another from Song-Coy, district of Moy, 

 Annam, kindly lent by Prof. Trouessart of Paris, the colour 

 is entirely different, although in the Paris specimen the skull 

 is like the type skull ; the Nhatrang skull is too young for 

 comparison. 1 append the description of the Paris specimen, 

 which is very similar to the Nhatrang one : — 



Upper parts an indefinite whitish yellow, with five longi- 

 tudinal rows of black spots. Limbs and tail, except at the 

 base, black. Style of markings as in the type. Underfur 

 dark greyish brown. The identity of these apparently very 

 different colour-phases, which are not quite uncommon in 

 Paradoxures, is proved by the skull above described. 



Skull (of type) : basilar length 91 mm. ; zygomatic 



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