152 DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE MUSTELID2. [Jan. 24, 
? Rhabdogale multivittata, Wagner, Schreb. Saugeth. Supp. 
Hab. Sennaar. 
See also Zorilla vaillantii, Loch (Rev. Zool. 497), from Algeria, 
which I have not seen. t 
. 
Tribe 8. Henictiprna. Flesh-tooth trigonal, with a broad internal 
lobe with two conical tubercles. Tail cylindrical. 
27. HELIcTIs. 
Head tapering ; nose acute, conical; muzzle bald, obliquely trun- 
cated ; underside hairy, with a central groove ; nostrils inferior ; ears 
ovate. Body slender; legs short; toes 5/5; front claws elongate, 
curved; hinder short and acute; sole of hind foot hairy behind, 
bald in front, and rhombic, for half the length of the foot, with three 
large oblong pads on the front and three small ones on the hinder 
edge; toes elongate; thumb short, far back, like Herpestes. ‘Tail 
moderate, subcylindrical. Teeth 38; premolars 3 grinders 5/6 
(Hodgson, J. A.S. B. t. 31. f. 6). 
Helictis, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. ii. 94,1833; List Mamm. B. M. 
xxi. 68; Isis, 1834, p. 829. 
Melogale, I. Geoff.; Guérin, Mag. Zool. v. 1, t. 16, 1835. 
Rhinogale, Gloger, 1842. 
Mydaus, sp., Temm. & Miiller. 
Galictis, Wiegmann. 
The external appearance of the species of this genus is very similar, 
and there appears to be an indication of the differences in colours 
passing into one another. 
The skulls of the species are very distinct. 1. The skull short 
and veutricose; nose short, thick; the hinder part of the palate 
flat, with a broad opening, as wide as long on the sides, the front 
edge arched. JH. orientalis. 2. Skull elongate ; the nose produced, 
attenuated ; the hinder part of the palate concave, and contracted 
behind the aperture ; longer than wide; the front edge arched. H. 
moschata and H. nipalensis. 
The teeth and size of the aperture in front of the orbits also differ 
thus in the different species :—1. The flesh-tooth large, with three 
lobes on the outer edge, the front one small, with two acute tuber- 
cles on the broad inner lobes ; the aperture in the front of the orbits 
moderate. H. orientalis and H. nipalensis. 2. The flesh-tooth 
small, shaped like those of the other species, but rather more 
slender; the aperture under the front of the orbits very large. 
H. moschata. 
* Flesh-tooth large; aperture in front of orbits moderate. 
Melogale. 
1, Hexicris onrENTALIS. Nyentek. B.M. 
Brown, paler beneath ; cheeks, upper lip, chin, throat, sides of 
