: 68 



Viverra larvata. Gray, Spic. Zool. p. 9. 



Paguma larvata. Gray., Froc. Comm. Zool. Soc. i. p. 96. 



13. Paradoxurus trivikgatus. Far. nigresceiiti-griseus, infrd 

 g7-iseus ; capite saluratiore ; dorso fasciis mbus loyigitudirialibus 

 medUs nigrescentibus ; pedibus canddque corpore longiore nigris ; 

 facie irnmaculatd. 



Viverra trivirgata. Re'mw., Mus. Leyd. 



This species is described from a s'pecimen in the Leyden Museum, 

 sent from the Moluccas. The teeth agree with those of the genus in 

 every particular, except that the cheek-teeth are rather shorter. 



14. Paradoxurus? binotatus. 



Viverra binotata. Reinw., Gray, Spic. Zool. p. 9. 



Mr. Gray referred this animal to the genus Faradoxurus with some 

 doubt, he not having seen the teeth. Its walk, however, is truly 

 plantigrade. The habitat of Ashantee, given to it in the Leyden Mu- 

 seum, may be questioned : it was obtained from an old Dutch col- 

 lection, in which it is possible that the localities were not strictly 

 preserved. 



To this enumeration Mr. Gray added the indication of an animal 

 known only by a rough sketch brought by Mr. Finlayson from Siam, 

 and deposited in the Library of the East India Company. This he 

 proposed to call Faradoxurus Finlaysonii, and described as being pale 

 brown ; with a band across the middle of the muzzle, and another 

 across the orbits (including the eyes and expanding on the back of 

 the cheek), the ears, and three continuous narrow lines along the 

 middle of the back, blackish brown ; the feet blackish ; and the tail 

 cylindrical. He also considered it probable that the Ctvette de Ma- 

 lacca of Sonnerat, I'^oy. t. 9!, the Viverra iWa/accensis of Gmelin, be- 

 longed to this genus, with which it agreed in several particulars of 

 its mode of colouring, although it differed in having a black streak 

 along the middle line of its belly, a character confined to few among 

 the Mammalia. 



With respect to the Faradoxxirus aureus of M. F. Cuvier, he stated 

 that he was inclined to believe that it really belonged to the genus on 

 account of its naked soles, but was certainly not, as had been ima- 

 gined, the young of Far. Typus. « 



Mr. Gray added, that figures of the Farr. Pennantii, Bandar, pre- 

 hensilis, Fallasii, and Hamiltonii, are engraved for the forthcoming 

 No. of the ' Illustrations of Indian Zoology', 



Preparations were exhibited of the stomach and cacum of a Ca- 

 promys which had recently died at the Society's Gardens, and Mr. 

 Owen read his notes of the dissection of the animal. He commenced 

 by remarking that its external characters agreed with those described 

 by M. Desmarest as existing in his Capromys Fouruieri ; while its ad- 

 measurements, especially those taken from the osseous system, cor- 

 responded closely with those given by Mr. Say in the Journal of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, when describing his 



