1865.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE MUSTELID2. 153 
neck, chest, three spots across forehead, and a narrow streak from 
nape to middle of the back yellowish white ; end of tail grey; feet 
brown. 
Gulo orientalis, Wersf. Java, t.; Desm. Mamm. Suppl. 537. 
Mydaus macrurus, Kuhl, Temm. Monogr. pl. 20; Fischer, Syr. 
Mamm. 155. 
M. orientalis, S. Miller. 
Melogale fusca, 1. Geoff., Guér. Mag. Zool. 1835, t. 16; Wagner, 
Schreb. Suppl. t. 
Helictis orientalis, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 195 ; Gerrard, Cat. 
Bones B. M. 98. 
Hab. Java (Horsfield, called “ Nyentek’’). 
2. HELIcTIS NIPALENSIS. The Oker. B.M. 
Grey-brown ; forehead and nape darker; cheek; band between 
orbits, chin, throat, sides of neck, chest beneath, and a streak from 
nape to loins white; end of tail greyish. Teeth large. 
Gulo nipalensis, Hodgson, J. A. 8. B. 1836, p. 237 ; 1837, p- 560. 
Helictis nepaulensis, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1853, p-191; 1856, 
p- 398; List Mamm. B. M. 69. 
Helictis nipalensis, Gerrard, Cat. Bones B. M. 98. 
Hab. Nipal (Hodgson) ; Tibet. 
** Flesh-tooth small ; aperture in front of orbits very large. 
3. Heuictis MoscHaTa. Helictis. B.M. 
Brown ; spot on crown, temples, broad band across forehead, a 
small spot on cheek and on side of nose, the chin, throat, chest, and 
beneath white. Teeth small; upper tubercular grinder transverse, 
narrow, oblong. 
Helictis moschata, Gray, P. Z. S. ii. 94 ; Cat. Mamm. B. M. 68; 
Gerrard, Cat. Bones B. M. 98. 
Melogale personata, 1. Geoff. ; Guérin, Mag. Zool. 1835; Voy. 
de Bélanger, t. 5. 
Mustela personata, Blainv. Ostéogr. Mustela, t. 13. f. 
Hab. China (John Reeve) ; Pegu (I. Geoff.). 
4, Henicris suBAURANTIACA. B.M. 
Brown ; face white-varied ; with a white streak from the crown to 
the middle of the back. Upper tubercular grinder transverse, 
broadly oblong in shape. 
Helictis subaurantiaca, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862, p. 355, 
pl. xurv. 
Hab. Formosa. 
This species is nearly identical in external appearance and colouring 
with the H. orientalis; but it has the small tooth, elongate nose, the 
large suborbital aperture, and narrow hinder opening to the palate of 
H. moschata. It differs from H. moschata in its teeth—the flesh- 
tooth and the tubercular tooth being relatively rather larger—and 
