1864.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE VIVERRIDE. 513 
Gray, Cat. Mam. B. M. 50; Gerrard, Cat. Ost. B. M. 72; Baird, 
Mamm. N. Amer. t. 74. f.2; Mexico, 13; Eydoux, Voy. Bonite, t. 
(skeleton) ; De Blainv. Ostéogr. Viverra, t. 12 (teeth). 
Tepe maxthalon, Hernand, Voy. Fav. t. 4 & 18. 
8 Yar: JSulvescens. Far more fulvous, perhaps of a different season. 
Bassaris sumichrasti, De Saussure, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1860, 
p. 5, t. 1. 
Hab. Mexico (called “‘ Cat Squirrel,” often domesticated) (Phil- 
lips). 
Skull ovate, rather produced in front, more compressed. Orbits 
large, incomplete behind ; lower edge confluent with the zygomatic 
arch ; zygomatic arch slender, short, and much bowed out. The 
brain-case swollen ; the contraction rather in front of the hinder edge 
of the orbit. The teeth normal. False grinders 2/4, 2/4, the upper 
compressed, second without any internal lobe. The flesh-tooth tri- 
angular ; inner lobe broad, on the inner side of the front edge, with 
two distinct conical tubercles ; outer side about one-third longer than 
the front margin, The tubercular grinders large, rather broader than 
long, with four small tubercles on the outer and three on the inner 
side ; inner edge rounded; the hinder tubercular oblong, transverse, 
like the former one, but smaller. The lower jaw shelving in front ; 
the lower edge arched ; the tubercular grinders large, oblong, longitu- 
dinal, with two large tubercles on the front and two smaller in an ob- 
lique line on the hinder part of the crown. Length of skull 31 inches ; 
width of the brain-case 11 inch, of the zygomatic arch 2}, inches. 
De Saussure’s figures represent the animal as if it were spotted, and 
the tail with only a few broad rings. 
4. VivERRICULA. 
Viverricula, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. x. 909. 
Head tapering. Throat with lunate dark bands. Body elongate ; 
back not crested. Legs moderate, equal. Tail almost as long as 
the body, tapering, dark-ringed. Toes 5—5; claws acute, com- 
pressed. Pupil oblong, vertical. Teeth 40; false grinders =; flesh- 
tooth longer than broad in front, inner lobe on the front margin ; 
tubercular grinders — 
Hab. Asia. 
Like a Genet, but with hairy soles to the feet, a shorter tail, and 
no crest. Foot with a small bald spot on the side of the palm-pad 
(see Hodgson, J. A. S. B. t. 31. f. 8). 
VIVERRICULA MALACCENSIS. B.M, 
Grey ; back with seven black or dark streaks more or less broken 
up into spots; shoulders, sides, and legs spotted; feet deep brown 
and black ; tail with seven or eight black rings. 
Proc. Zoou. Soc.—1864, No. XXXIII. 
