140 DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE MUSTELID&. [Jan. 24, 
108, 1855; Gerrard, Cat. Bones B. M. 99; Blyth, Journ. A. 8. B. 
1853, p. 589. 
Hab. Thibet (Hodgson). 
Very like Arctonyz collaris ; but the fur of the back is longer and 
more flaccid, and the chin and throat are black, as well as the belly 
and legs, which is not the case in that animal. The skull is rather 
more tapering and more compressed than in the European Badger 
(M. taxus), which it most resembles. 
Consult also Meles albigularis, Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 
1853, p. 589, which is unknown to me. 3 
** Skull short; nose broad. Eumeles. 
3. Meves ankumMA. Ankuma. B.M. 
Meles ankuma, Temm. Fauna Japonica, t.; Gray, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. 1853, p. 191; Gerrard, Cat. Bones B. M. 99. 
M. tazxus, var., Middendorf, N. und O. Sibir. Siugeth. 3. 
M. taxus, var. amurensis, Schrenck, Amurland, xvii. t. 1. f. 1, 4. 
Hab. Japan. 
The skull differs from that of M. tavus and M. leucurus in being 
much shorter, and with a rather broad nose (Gray, P. Z. 8. 1853, 
p- 191). 
20. Taxipea. American Badger. 
Nose prominent. Ears rounded. Body heavy, stout. Limbs 
short. Feet plantigrade. Toes 5/5; front claws elongate, for dig- 
ging. Tail short. Fur soft, with longer hairs. Skull broad, de- 
pressed, and truncated behind. Teeth 34; false grinders 3/3, 3/3. 
Flesh-tooth very large, triangular. ‘Tubercular grinder triangular, 
not exceeding the flesh-tooth in size (see P. Z.S. 1853, p. 191). 
Taxidea, Waterhouse, Trans. Zool. Soc. ii. 343, t. 59, 1841; Gray, 
List Mamm. B. M. xix. 70, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1853, p. 191; S. Baird, 
Mamm. N. A. 201. 
Skull depressed, subtriangular, broad and truncated behind ; nose 
short, broad; forehead small and slightly convex ; suborbital fora- 
men small, trigonal; orbits incomplete behind. Palate flat, rather 
produced behind; hinder opening arched, not so wide as the side 
margin. The auditory bulla large, convex, half ovate, vesicular, thin. 
The cutting-teeth short, strong ; four central truncated, outer large, 
conical. Canines conical, nearly straight. False grinders two, conical ; 
the hinder larger, with a thickened margin on the inner hinder 
edge. Flesh-tooth large, triangular, nearly as broad in front as on the 
outer side; outer side with two compressed confluent tubercles ; 
inner side broad, with two conical tubercles, the hinder small. The 
tubercular tooth large, broad, subtrigonal, the inner edge long, the 
outer short, the hinder edge obliquely truncated. Lower jaw strong ; 
condyles transverse ; cutting-teeth in a close line, two middle small, 
two next larger, and outer largest, the four outer obliquely trun- 
cated; canines conical, curved; false grinders three, the first and 
