114 CATALOGUE. 



Genus ARCTONYX, Fred. Cm., Mamm. Urn. 51, 1825, et al. 

 MYDAI Spec., Schinz. 



129. ARC TON YX COLLARIS, Fred. Guv. I c. 



Arctonyx collaris, Fischer, Syn. Mamm. p. 152. Gray, 



Cat. Mamm. Br. Mus. 70. Evans, Journ. As. Soc. 



Beng. VII. p. 732, with a figure. 

 Mydaus collaris, Gray and Hardw., Illust. Ind. Zool. I. 



Tab. VI. Schinz, Syn. Mamm. I. p. 317. 

 Ursi Spec. Duvaucel, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. VII. p. 734. 

 BALOO-SOOR, Sand-pig, Hindustani. 

 Sand-bear, Bewick, Quadr. 



HAB. Bengal, Hardwicke. Aracan, Evans. 

 A. Presented by Maj.-Gen. T. Hardwicke. 



In its dental system the genus Arctonyx resembles the allied genera 

 of this family, Gulo and Meles : on the seventh plate Vol. I. of Gray 

 and Hardwicke's Illustrations of Indian Zoology, the skull and the 

 peculiarities of the teeth are given. In the Company's specimen the 

 incisors above and below, disposed reciprocally in a regular curve, 

 are of moderate size, with somewhat blunt edges ; in the upper jaw 

 vertical, in the lower jaw with an oblique inclination outwards. The 

 canines are large, strong, and stout at the base. The grinders are 

 compressed, four above and five beneath. 



The first authentic account of this animal, since the description and 

 figure of Bewick, from a specimen exhibited in the Tower of London, is 

 given by M. Duvaucel in the seventh volume of the Journal of the Bengal 

 Asiatic Society, p. 734. It was subsequently described and figured 

 by MM. Fr. Cuvier and Geoffr., in the 51 Livr. of the Mammiferes. 



The specimen in the Company's Museum presents the following 

 exterior : General habit that of the European Badger, but more robust. 

 The hairy covering of the body rough, bristly, and straggling ; that of 

 the head shorter and more closely adpressed. The separate hairs are 

 long, yellowish- gray at the base and blackish-brown at the tip, giving 

 an irregularly undulated black and grayish surface. The head, generally 

 with the throat and breast, is yellowish- white ; on the upper part this 

 colour forms a broad, regularly defined band from the snout to the 

 occiput ; ears of the same colour : the nape of the neck, a narrow band 

 across the breast, the anterior portion of the abdomen, the extremities, 

 a band arising from the middle of the upper lip, gradually wider 



