1864.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE VIVERRID. 519 
feet yellowish white. Length of body and head 17 inches; of tail 
8} inches. There are no subcaudal glands. 
“Hab. Madagascar (Poivre, Mus. Acad. Sci. 1761). —Buffon, 
AN, xin..163, ti 21. 
I do not know auy other description of this species; that of all 
other authors, including Dr. A. Smith, is a mere copy of the above. 
There does not appear to be any central dorsal stripe, so characteristic 
of the Genets ; the soles of the front feet have not been described. 
Tribe 3. PRIONODONTINA. 
Body slender, elongate ; limbs very short ; tubercular grinders 1/1; 
Sur soft, close, erect ; the tail very long, cylindrical, ringed. 
7. PRIONODON. 
Prionodon (subgenus of Felis), Horsf. Java, Hodgson. 
Linsang, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 48; Miiller, Zool. Ind. Arch. 
Body very slender; back not crested. Legs short. Tail very 
long, cylindrical, dark-ringed. Toes 5—5. Claws very acute. Skull 
elongate. Teeth 38; false grinders =; flesh-tooth elongate; tu- 
. i—1 
bercular grinders =—. 
Hab. Asia and Africa. 
1. PRIONODON GRACILIS. B.M. 
Fur white ; back with broad black cross bands ; sides of neck with 
a broad black streak continued along the sides, confluent with the 
bands of the back; back of neck with five parallel black streaks. 
Tail with seven black and white streaks; a second streak, broken 
into spots, from the side of the neck to the haunches. Legs with 
small black spots. 
Linsang gracilis, Miller, Zool. Ind. Arch. i. 28, t.; Gray, Cat. 
Mamm. B. M. 48; Gerrard, Cat. Ost. B. M. 72. 
Viverra? linsang, Hardw. Linn. Trans. xiii. 256, t. 24; De 
Blainv. Ostéogr. t. 12 (teeth). 
Felis (Prionodon) gracilis, Horsf. Zool. Java, t. 
Viverra hardwickii, Lesson, Man. 172 (not Gray). 
V. genetta, Deschamps, MS. B.M. 
Paradoxurus prehensilis, Schinz, Cuv. Thierr. iv. 349. 
Viverra gracilis, Desm. Mamm. 539; Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. 363. 
Paradocurus linsang, Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 159, 1829. 
Hab. Asia: Malacca?, Siam?, Sumatra?, Java? (Horsfield). 
2. PRIONODON PARDICOLOR. B.M. 
Pale whitish grey ; back of neck and shoulders with three streaks, 
diverging from the vertebral line; back with two series of large 
square spots; the shoulders, sides, and legs with round black spots ; 
an elongated spot on the middle of the front part of the back, be- 
tween the square spots on the sides of the body. 
