CATALOGUE. 109 



confluent with the pale colour of the animal's lower surface : head and 

 body vermiformed ; digits and nails of the anterior extremities stronger ; 

 half-way from the os calcis to the fingers, hairy ; fur of two sorts, and 

 abundant, but not lengthened nor harsh, nor annulated : tail, cylindrico- 

 tapered, pointed, half the length of the animal ; snout to rump, sixteen 

 inches ; tail seven and a half, or nine with the terminal hair. 



" The form of this species is decidedly Musteline from the snout to 

 the tail ; and not merely the head, with its several external organs, but 

 the skull also bears a close resemblance to those of Martes and Putorius. 

 The anterior limbs, however, are decidedly fossorial, and the hinder 

 suited for walking in a subplantigrade manner : both wholly unfitted 

 for raptatory or scansorial purposes." 



In the sixth volume of the Journal of the Asiatic Society, pp. 560-1, 

 some further details of the external colouring of this species, from another 

 specimen, are given by Mr. Hodgson. 



Genus MYDAUS, Fred. Cuv. et Geqffr., Mamm. fasc. 27. 

 Fischer, Horsfeld, et al. 



MEPHITIDIS Species, Desmarest, Raffles, et al. 



128. MYDAUS MELICEPS, Fr. Cuv. et Geoffr. I c. 

 Rorsf., Zool. Research, in Java, with a figure. Desmar., 

 Mamm. Suppl p. 537. Schinz, Syn. Hamm. I. p. 316. 

 Gray, Cat. Mamm. Br. Mus. p. 69. Zoology of H.M.S. 

 Samarang, p. 17. Mutter, Over de Zoogd. fan den Ind. 

 Archipel. p. 26. Vig. and Horsf., App. to Life of Sir T. S. 

 Raffles, p. 634. 



Mephitis Javanensis, Desmar. , Mamm. p. 187. Raffl., Trans. 



Linn. Soc.XIII.p. 251. 

 Mouffette de Java, De Leschenault. G. Cuv., Ossem. foss. 



ed. 4 me , VIII. pp. 30 and 408. 

 TELEDOO, of the Eastern Javanese. 

 SENG-GUNG, or SIEGUNG, of the Sundanese. 

 TELAGO, of the Malays. 

 TELEGGO, or STINKARD, of the inhabitants of the interior 



of Sumatra. 



HAD. Java and Sumatra, Horsfield, Raffles, Mutter. 

 A. B. Horsfield's Collection from Java. 



Mr. Marsden's mention of this animal in his History of Sumatra, 

 p. 117, is perhaps the earliest notice of its existence, and the Sumatran 



