1865. ] DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE MUSTELID. 127 
Fur pale brown; ends of ears, lips, cheeks, chin, throat, under- 
part of the body, undersides of the legs, and underside of the base 
of the tail pale yellow. 
Lutra chinensis, Gray, Loudon’s Mag. Nat. Hist. 1836, p- 580; 
Gray, List Mamm. B. M. 71; Horsf. Ann. and Mag. N. H. xvi. 
109, 1855; Tyler, Ann. and Mag. N. H. xiv. 772, 1854, P. Z. S. 
1856. p. 399. 
L. nair, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soe. 1861, p. 390. B.M. 
Hab. China (Reeves), B. M.; Formosa (Swinhoe), B. M. 
The suborbital foramen large, oblong, trigonal, nearly as high as 
wide in the middle; lower edge arched. 
4. Lurra mpica. 
Bald; muzzle square. Fur pale brown, grizzled with white hairs ; 
lips and under part of the body pale brownish white; under-fur 
short, with scattered, slender, elongated hairs. 
Var. Tip of tail white. 
Lutra indica, Gray, Loudon’s Mag. Nat. Hist. 1837, p- 580. 
L. tavayensis, Hodgson, J. A. S. B. viii. 319, 1839; Ann. Nat. 
Hist. iv.; Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi. 99. ; 
?L. nair, F, Cuv. Dict. des Sci. Nat. XXvil. 247; Fischer, Syn. 
228; P.Z.S. 1850, p. 156. 
Hab. India, Madras (Walter Elliot), B. M. 
This may be the same as the former, L. chinensis ; but I have not 
been able to examine the skull. 
tt Forehead and nose of skull convex; the inner lobe of the flesh- 
tooth very large, occupying the whole of the inner side of the 
outer portion of the tooth ; the hinder dentiferous portion of the 
maxillary bone, bearing the upper tubercular grinder, produced 
behind the hinder edge of the orbit. Lutrogale. 
* Asia. 
5. LuTrRa MONTICOLA. B.M. 
Grey ash ground ; greyer beneath. 
Inner lobe of the flesh-tooth very large, as long as outer edge. 
Lutra monticola, Hodgson, Ann. and Mag. N. H. iv., P. Z. S. 
1855, p. 126 (not described) ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones B. M. 100. 
Hab. Himalaya. 
The Museum has received skulls of two distinct species under the 
above name, one with large and the other with small inner lobe to 
the flesh-tooth. 
The skins belonging to the skull with the large teeth are in a 
very bad condition ; they are probably bleached. 
Consult also Lutra simul, Horsf. Zool. Journ. ; Miller, Verhand. 
51; from Sumatra and Borneo, with strong falcate claws. I have 
not seen this species, nor Lutra katab (Hiigel, Reise) from Cash- 
mere. 
