64 CATALOGUE. 



A. A drawing. Presented by Dr. Francis (Buchanan) 

 Hamilton. 



This species was described and introduced in M. Desmarest's Mam- 

 malogie, by M. de Blainville, from a drawing deposited in the Museum 

 of the East-India Company. In the year 1834, a skin of an Indian 

 mammal was presented to the Zoological Society by Lord Fitzroy 

 Somerset, which was considered by J. E. Bennett, Esq., to belong to 

 this species. (Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1834, p. 33.) 



Mr. Bennett thus describes it : " The general colour of the animal is 

 a pale grayish brown, in which longer black hairs are sparingly inter- 

 mixed on the sides. On the back of the head and neck, and along the 

 middle line of the back, these black hairs are almost the only ones that 

 are visible. On the loins they form three indistinct black bands, of 

 which the lateral are in some measure interrupted. The head is 

 brownish, with the usual gray mark both above and below the eyes, 

 and there are some short gray hairs between the eyes and across the 

 forehead. The limbs are brownish black, rather darker towards their 

 upper part. The tail, at its base, is of the same colour as the back, 

 and rapidly becomes black ; the terminal fifth is yellowish white. The 

 ears are rather large, and sparingly covered with short brownish hairs." 

 This description agrees generally with Dr. B. Hamilton's drawing. 



94. PARADOXURUS TRIVIRGATUS, Reinwardt Sp. 

 Viverra trivirgata, Reinw., Mus. Leid. 

 Paradoxurus trivirgatus, Temm., Monogr. II. p. 333. Mill- 



ler, Over de Zoogdieren van den Indisch. Archip. p. 55. 



Catal, of Mamm. in Museum of Zool. Soc. 1838, p. 22. 

 Paguma trivirgata, Gray, Catal. Mamm. Br. Mus. p. 55. 



Cantor, Catal. of Malayan Mamm. p. 31. 



HAB. Java and Sumatra, Temminck. Tenasseriin, Blytli. 



A. A flat skin, without the skull. Presented by the Asiatic 



Society of Bengal. 



B. A young specimen, from Finlayson's Collection. Lo- 



cality not known. 



M. Temminck indicates three varieties of this species, the first of 

 which agrees generally with the specimen presented by the Asiatic 

 Society. The following is an abstract of its external character : 

 " Above, sides, and anterior and posterior aspects (faces) of the limbs, 

 ash-gray, with a silvery reflection ; three parallel deep black longitu- 



