On Two new Carnivores from Asta Minor. 73 
canines indicates with certainty, and further examination 
shows that the account is based on Buffon’s “ Chevrotain,” 
of which he evidently saw the original specimens—colours, 
dimensions, and tooth-characters all being in agreement 
with those in Buffon’s work. We may therefore eliminate 
the synonymy in Brisson, and accept the description as 
indicating the genotype of Tragulus. 
The animal thus described is clearly one of the unspotted 
group related to 7. javanicus or napu, but which species is 
immaterial for our present purpose. Certainly it is not the 
Indian 7. meminna. 
For the subgenus containing the latter, the name Memina 
or Meminna (Gray) is unavailable, having been earlier used 
by G. Fischer for an opossum *, 
But Moschiola, first published invalidly by Hodgson in 
conjunction with a nomen nudum, may be taken technically 
from the synonymy given by Gray of his genus Meminna in 
1852+, and will be available as a subgeneric name for the 
Spotted Chevrotain, which I should therefore call Tragulus 
(Moschiola) meminna. 
Lastly, for the West-African Water-Chevrotain I should 
now use Hyemoschus, as, apart from its different geological 
horizon, it is sufficiently distinguished from Dorcatherium 
by its different premolar formula. 
ITX.—On Two new Carnivores from Asia Minor. 
By W. F. Grirritt BLAcKLeER, M.A., F.Z.S. 
THE British Museum contains specimens of a wild cat and a 
badger from the region near Trebizond which do not appear 
to have been described. 
Felis sylvestris trapezia, subsp. n. 
Resembling Felis sylvestris caucasica, but distinguishable 
by the smaller size of the skull. 
Colour.—General colour approaching the broccoli-brown of 
Ridgway, with four black longitudinal lines on head and 
nape of neck, two being continued on to the shoulders, where 
they lie on either side parallel to a black median dorsal line 
which commences near nape and continues almost to base of 
* Zoogn. iii. p. 611 (1814). 
+ Cat. Ungulata, p. 246 (1852). 
