92 CATALOGUE. 



(?) Herpestes pallipes, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Eeng. XIV. 

 p. 346, note. 



Herpestes Edwardsii, Geoffr., Hist. Nat. d'Egypte, II. 

 p. 138. Fischer, Synops. Mamm. p. 165. Blyth, 

 Journ. As. Soc. Seng. XIV. p. 346, note (?) Ogilby, 

 Zool. App. to Royle's Botany of the Himalayas. 



The Highland Nyula, Gray, Catal. Mamm. Br. Mus. p. 52. 



MOOSH-KHOORMA, of the Afghans, Hutton. 



The name Neeool, from the Sans. Nakula, is applied indis- 

 criminately in different localities to this and the next 

 species. 



HAB. The hilly regions of Nepal, Hodgson. Assam, McClel- 

 land. Malayan Peninsula, Cantor. 



A. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



B. McClelland's Collection from Assam. 



C. and D. Two skins. Griffiths's Collection from Afghan- 



istan. 



" This species is of a uniform olive-brown colour, more or less 

 saturate in different individuals, freckled with golden yellow, an aspect 

 resulting from the five-fold annulation of each hair, with black and 

 aureous ; cheeks more or less rusty ; fur of the body short, soft, and 

 adpressed. Tail shorter than the body. Length from snout to rump, 

 ten or twelve inches ; tail nine to ten inches and a half." (Hodgson, 

 J. A. S. B. VI. p. 236.) It agrees with the Herpestes javanicus in 

 having no distinct anal pouch, but the folds of the skin near the root 

 of the tail are subdilated, and furnished with some scattered glandular 

 points below the surface. 



113. HERPESTES NYULA, Hodgson, 



Herpestes nyula, Hodgson, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. V. p. 236. 

 Gray, Cat. Mamm. Br. Mus. p. 52. Cat. Hodgs. 

 Collect, p. 8. 

 Herpestes nigula, Hodgs., Classified Catal. of Nepal Mamm. 



Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. IV. p. 287. 

 NYUL, or NEEOOL, of the plains, Hodgson, Journ. As. Soc. 



Beng. V. p. 236. 

 HAB. The open Tara'i, Hodgson. 



A. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



This species exceeds that last mentioned in size, measuring from 

 snout to rump fifteen inches, tail, the same, or eighteen inches with the 



