116 CATALOGUE. 



and those which were brought to Paris by M. Leschenault de la Tour 

 from Pondicherry ; though these discrepancies do not justify its being 

 separated as a species. In the Museum specimens the colour is pure 

 brown, without the chestnut tint peculiar to the other Indian species ; 

 the throat, upper lip, and sides of the head are nearly white, and the 

 line of separation between the upper and lower parts is not distinctly 

 marked. 



131. LUTE A CHINENSIS, Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. 1836. 



Lutra chinensis, Gray,loc. cit. Cat. Miamm. Br.Mus.p. 71. 



Cat. Hodgs. Coll. p. 14. 

 Lutra indica, Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. 1836. 

 Lutra chinensis et indica, Gray. Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. 



Beng. XVII. I. p. 559. 

 Lutra tarayensis, Hodgs. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. VIII. 



p. 309 ; X. 909. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. IV. p. 287. 



Schinz, Syn. Mamm. I. p. 354. 

 Lutra vulgaris, var. Hodgs. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. I. 



p. 341. 



HAB. China, Beeves. Madras, W. Elliot, Esq. Nepal, 

 Hodgson. 



A. Adult. B. Young. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, 

 Esq. 



In the Museum specimens the colour above is pale chestnut-brown 

 with a yellowish Isabella shade ; beneath it is yellowish white, lighter 

 on the throat and neck, where the line of separation between the upper 

 and lower parts is more distinct than on the abdomen. In the adult 

 specimen the fur is rather long and slightly diverging ; in the young 

 specimen it is very soft, closely adpressed, and slightly grizzled by the 

 darker colour of the ends of the hairs. 



In the eleventh volume, p. 99, of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of 

 Bengal, Mr. Blyth gives some valuable remarks on the size, colour, and 

 peculiarities of this species, showing its near resemblance to the Euro- 

 pean Otter. 



132. LUTRA SIM UNO, Raffles. 



Lutra Simung, Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII. ^.234. 

 Muller y Over de Zoogd. van den Ind. Ar chip. pp. 27 

 and 51. Lesson, Manuel de Mammalog. p. 156. 



