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PLATE XV. 

 Mydaus meliceps^ Cuv. 



ABOUT 18 inches total length; deep brown, head 

 almost bare and buff; from forehead to croup a 

 broad white streak, sometimes interrupted; tip of 

 tail and claws white. Is found in Java and Su- 

 matra; mephitic; burrowing. 



THE URSIDJE 



HAVE the true molars nearly of equal size, remark- 

 ably tubercular in structure, the tubercles being 

 more numerous, more elevated and pointed than in 

 the former genera ; the limbs are longer, causing the 

 animals to be proportionably much higher at the 

 shoulder ; and the fore feet more completely planti- 

 grade, as well as the hinder, are all pentadactylous, 

 and armed with strong claws. 



Genus ARCTICTIS. Ictides of Valenciennes. 

 Dent. form. J, \-\, f-f = 36 ; no anal pouch; feet 



