1865.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE MUSTELID. 143 
MM. javanensis, Blainv. Ostéogr. Subursus, t. 7 (skull), t. 9 (teeth). 
Stinkkard or Teledu, Marsden, Sumatra, 117. 
Hab. Sumatra (Raffles). 
Tribe 5. Mevurvorrna. Tubercular grinder transverse, band-like ; 
palate only slightly produced behind ; flesh-tooth with a small 
internal lobe, with a single tubercle. Fur black below, white 
above. 
22. Metuivora. 
Mellivora, Stor.; F. Cuv. ; Gray, L. M. B. M. v. 68. 
Ratelus, Gray, Ann. Phil, 1825; Schinz, Syn. 329. 
Lipotus, Sundevall, Kong. Vet. Acad. Handl. 1841,.-p, 211, 
Ursitaxus, Hodgson, Asiat. Research. xix. 60, 1836. 
Melitonyzx, Gloger, 1842. 
Head depressed; nose blunt; ears indistinct. Body stout, de- 
pressed ; legs short, strong; plantigrade. Toes 5/5; front claws 
elongate, very strong, the bald sole of hind foot occupying the 
whole undersurface, only slightly divided across about one-third of 
its length from the front (Hodgson, J. A. S. B. t. 31. £. 2). Tail 
short, subcylindrical. Skull contracted behind ; orbits very incom- 
plete, scarcely contracted behind. Teeth 32; premolars 3/3, 3/3 ; 
grinders 4/4 (Blainv. Ostéogr. Mustela, t. 2). 
De Blainville figures the skull and teeth of M. indica and M. ca- 
pensis, t.11 and t.13; he represents the tubercular grinders of 
M. indica as much smaller than those of M. capensis, and the flesh- 
tooth as more unequally triangular (see t. 13). 
The two species are alive in the Zoological Gardens, and have a 
specific appearance not easy to define in words. 
1. MELLIVOoRA INDICA. B.M. 
Ursus indicus, Shaw, Zool. 1470. 
Meles indica, Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 151. 
Indian Badger (Ursus indicus), Hardw. Linn. Trans. ix. 1 15, t.9. 
Indian Badger, Penn. Syn. Quad. 16. 
Ratelus mellivorus, Benn. Zool. Gard. 13 (fig. good). 
Mellivora ratel, Gerrard, Cat. Bones B. M. 96. 
Mellivora ratelus, Indian var., Fraser, Cat. Zool. Gardens, 1862, 
p-9; Bartlett, P. Z.S. 1835. 
Ratelus indicus, Schinz, Syn. Mamm. 329. 
Mellivora indica, Blainy. Ostéogr. Mustela, t. 6 (skull). 
Mustela indica, Blainv. Ostéogr. Mustela, t. 13 (teeth). 
Ursitaxus inauritus (Bharsiah), Hodgson, Asiat. Research. xix. 
60, J. A.S. Beng. 1836, p. 671. 
Hab. India (called “ Beejoo’’). 
Skull ovate, elongate; nose short, concave on the sides, flat above; 
forehead short, convex ; orbits incomplete ; suborbital foramen small, 
ovate. Brain-case swollen behind and truncated. Palate nearly 
flat in front, concave behind and slightly produced ; hinder opening 
of the palate large ; keeled on the sides, front edge arched; as wide 
