Dr. J. E. Gray on Ceratorhinus. 207 



hind feet entirely hairy, like the Viverricola] but it differs 

 from that animal in having no lunate mark on the front of the 

 chest ; and the tail is only marked with a series of spots on 

 each side of the upper part, very unlike the distinct rings of 

 Viverricola. It ought to be arranged in the tribe Viverrina, 

 next to Viverricola, and not, as placed in the Catalogue, after 

 Oenetta, in the tribe Genettina. 



Fossa, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, and Cat. Carn. Mam. Brit. Mus. 



p. 52. 



Head tapering. Throat pale, without any lunate bands. 

 Body elongate ; back not crested. Legs moderate, equal. 

 Tail shorter than the body, grizzled, with a series of dark 

 spots on each side of the basal half, and very indistinct inter- 

 rupted dark rings on the hinder half; underside not ringed or 

 spotted. Soles of the hind feet entirely hairy, without any 

 naked streak, extending from the base of the toes to the heel. 



1. Fossa Dauhentonii, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 518 ; Cat. Carn. 

 Mam. B. M. p. 62. 



Fossane, BufFon, Hist. Nat. xiii. p. 163, t. 21. 

 Viverra fossa, Schreb. Saugeth. t. 114 (from Buifon). 



Hab. Madagascar. B.M. 



I will on a future occasion give a longer description, with 

 an account of the dentition and skeleton, of this long-lost and 

 much misunderstood beast. 



Buffon and Daubenton described a specimen brought home 

 by M. Poivre in 1761, which was afterwards in the Museum 

 of the Jardin des Plantes. When I have been in Paris I 

 have searched for it two or three times without being able to 

 discover it; so that I fear the original specimen has been 

 lost ; and I regard the rediscovery of the animal as quite as 

 important as the finding of a new species. Daubenton's 

 description is very accurate. It is at once known from Viver- 

 ricola malaccensis and Genettaj with which some zoologists 

 have confounded it, by having no lunate bands on the throat. 



XXX. — On the double-horned Asiatic Rhinoceros (Cerato- 

 rhinus). By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. &c. 



The Zoological Society has, within this last year, received 

 two specimens of the double-horned Asiatic rhinoceros ( Cera- 

 torhinus). They are very unlike one another, and come from 

 different but neighbouring parts of South Asia, both being 

 females and nearly adult. There is every reason to suppose 



