Mr. R. I. Pocock on the Genus Linsang. 341 



Limneria garrulum, Cam. E,ec. Albany Mus. i. 1905, p. 315, judging 

 solely from the type (iu poor coudition), is a Nemeritis, 

 sensu Thorns. 



Helictes longijtes (Cam.), from Mexico, was described under the 

 genus Faijyila. 



Talorga spinipes. Cam. (Entom. iliv. 1911, p. 64). — The type is a 

 (S with mutilated anus ; it belon<;s to the Plectiscides, near 

 Helictes^ and not to the Mesoleptini, as stated by Cameron. 



HYMENOPHARSALIA, Mori. Revis. Ichn., Feb. ]913, p. 97 = 

 Parophionellus, Brues, Bull. Amer. Mus., Oct. 1913, p. 495 = 

 Pharsalia, Cress. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 1872, p. 177 (nee 

 Thoms. 1864; cf. Schulz, Zool. Ann. iv. p. 22). 



XLIII. — On some of the External Characters of the Genus 

 Linsang, with Notes upon the Genera Poiana a/«(i? Eupleres. 

 By R. 1. Pocock, F.R.S., Superintendent of the Zoological 

 Society's Gardens. 



[Plates XII. & XIII.] 



In addition to a number of skins of the three described 

 species of Linsang — better, but erroneously, known as Prio- 

 nodon — there are in tlie British Museum a spirit-preserved 

 example of the genotype, L. linsang {=^gracilis), collected 

 in Sumatra by H. (). Forbes, and Blanford^s type of 

 L. maculosus from Tenasserim. The following notes, con- 

 taining particulars about certain cutaneous characters, not 

 described, or only imperfectly described previously, are based 

 upon this material. Of the other genera referred to in this 

 paper, namely Poiana, Fossa, and Eupleres, only dried skins 

 are available for examination. It has not been possible 

 therefore to add many new facts in connection with these 

 forms. 



The Genus Linsang ( = Prionodon). 



The rhinarium (PI. XII. fig. 5) recalls that of Gen^tfa. Its 

 upper margin, seen from the front, is mt sially Hattisli, with 

 obtusely rounded angles. The anterior apertures of the nares 

 are small and widely separated ; the infranarial portion is 

 quite shallow laterally, does not extend beyond the narial slits, 

 and its inferior border inclines obliquely upwards on each side. 

 The groove which cleaves the upper lip ])asses about half- 

 way up the anterior surface of the rhinarium, stop[)ing short 

 approximately between the nostrils. 



