638 Mr. E. Schwaiz on 



yellowish. Hands and feet blackish brown. Tail with nine 

 very narrow blackish-brown rings and as many whitish ones, 

 including the long pure white tip, 



I had long suspected the Formosa " Rasse " to be a 

 separate form, but only now desciibe it from a good series of 

 specimens in the Berlin Museum. I am much indebted to 

 Prof. Matschie tor tiie privilege of describing tliis form, which 

 he himself had recognized to be new, wlien tlie specimens 

 arrived at Berlin. 



Dimensions of type (taken from the dried skin) : — 



Head and body 670 mm. ; tail-veitebr^e 350; iiind foot 8. 



Skull: basilar length 96; zygomatic width 49 ; mastoid 

 width 34 ; palatilar length 49*5 ; length of upper tootii-row 

 {c-m^ 39 ; intertemporal constriction 13*4 ; distance of 

 bullge from one another (anteriorly) 11. 



J'ype. Male, old. Koyal Zoological Museum, Berlin : 

 no. A. 2J3. 10. Original no. 26512. Collected by Mr. H. 

 Sauter. 



Type locality. Teraso, Formosa. 



Eleven specimens examined, all from Teraso. 



On Viverra fasciata, Gmelin. 



Gmelin's description of Viverra fasciata (Syst. Nat. vol. i. 

 p. 92, 178l:) was based on the description and figure of an 

 animal called " Le Chat Sauvage a bandes noiresdes Indes " 

 by Sonnerat in his 'Voyage aux Indes Orientales et a la 

 China ' (vol. ii. p. 143, pi. 90) (Paris, 1782). The description 

 and figure clearly show that it is tiie species now usually 

 called Galidictis striata (Desm.). In his 'Mammalogie' 

 (1820), Desmarest changed the name into Vivei-ra striata 

 without any reason, quoting Sonnerat and Gmelin in the 

 synonymy. In the same w^ork he used the name Viverra 

 fasciata himself, but in quite another sense, applying it to an 

 animal which can now be identified with the Paradoxurus of 

 southern Malay Peninsula, for which it is very suitable, but 

 unfortunately cannot be used, being preoccupied as shown 

 above. The fact that Sonnerat's " Chat Sauvage " was 

 stated to be from India is of no importance, as the same 

 expedition procured other animals from Madagascar. 



Galidictis fasciata (Gmelin), 1788. 



Sjn. Chat Sauvage a bandes noires des Indes, Sonnerat, /. c. (1782) 

 (tigured). 

 Le Futois Raye de Vlnde, Bufibn, Hist. Nat. Suppl. vol. vii. p. 231 



(tame figure as Sonnerat's, bur uncoloured) (1788). 

 Viverra fasciata, Gmelin, I. c. (1788). 

 Vnerra striata, Desmarest, /. c. p. 210 (1820). 

 Galidictis striata (Desm.), auct. 



