1865. ] DR. J. FE. GRAY ON THE MUSTELID, 119 
2/3, 2/3; the upper tubercular grinder small, transverse, the inner 
half rather Jarger than the outer one. 
Gymnopus, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. xx. 1842. 
* Colour uniform above and below; head pale. 
1. GYMNOPUS LEUCOCEPHALUS. B.M. 
Golden fulvous, nearly uniform, scarcely paler beneath ; head 
white ; toes elongate, webbed, nakedish. 
Putorius nudipes, F. Cuv. Mamm. Lith. 
Mustela nudipes, Desm. Mamm; Miiller, Verhand.; Gerrard, 
Cat. Mamm. B. M. 94; Blainv. Ostéogr. t. 13 (teeth). 
Var. End of tail paler; feet darker; front of the back with a 
pale vertebral streak, wider and more distinct between the shoul- 
ders. B.M. 
Hab. Sumatra and Borneo. 
Tail of the specimen in the Paris Museum is nearly destitute of 
hair; the soles of the feet are covered with hair. 
The two stuffed specimens in the Museum are nearly alike, but 
the skull of one is much larger than that of the other; one is 
2 inches 4 lines, and the other 2 inches 2 lines long. 
** Belly pale yellow. 
2. GYMNOPUS KATHIAH. Kathiah. ~B.M. 
Dark brown ; upper lip, chin, throat, chest, underside of body, 
and front of thighs bright yellow; tail dark brown, shorter than 
the body and head, tapering, and of the same colour to the tip. 
Length of body and head 10, tail 4 inches; the soles of the hind 
feet bald, pads well developed, exposed. 
Mustela (Putorius) kathiah, Hodgson, J. A.S. B. iv. 702, 1835 ; 
Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 66; Gerrard, Cat. Bones B. M. 96; 
Wagner, Schreb. Suppl. ii. 233; Horsf. Cat. Mus. Ind. H. 102, 
P. Z. 8. 1856, p. 398. 
M. (Kathiah) auriventer, Hodgson, J. A. S. B. x. 909; Gray, 
Cat. Hodgs. Coll. B. M, 13. 
Hab. India, Nepal. 
3. GYMNOPUS STRIGIDORSUS. B.M. 
Fur dark chestnut-brown, with a very narrow streak of a few 
longer yellow hairs down the centre of the back ; edge of upper lip, 
the chin, throat, chest, and a narrow streak down the centre of the 
belly (wider hindwards) yellow, becoming whiter in the older speci- 
mens ; tail slender, about half the length of the body, dark brown. 
Mustela strigidorsa, Hodgson, P. Z. 8. 1856, p. 398. 
M. strigodorsa, Hodgson, MS.; Gray, P. Z. S. 1853, p. 181, 
t. 491. 
Hab. India, Sikim. 
Very like M. kathiah, but with a yellow dorsal streak, and the 
