330 DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE VIVERRIDE. [Noy. 8, 
forehead, and none from the zygomatic arch behind. The forehead 
flat, rhombic ; produced, angular behind the orbit. Palate wide be- 
hind. Teeth 40; false grinders 3/4, 3/4; flesh-tooth elongate, 
narrow, with a small internal lobe on the front edge; the hinder 
tubercular very small, circular. 
The skull is figured by De Blainville (Ostéogr., Viverra, t. 6) as 
that of Paradocurus? hamiltonii. 
NANDINIA BINOTATA. 
Nape with three black parallel streaks, one from the forehead, the 
other from the ears. Back with numerous black spots. Withers 
each with a yellow spot. Lips, throat, and beneath rufous grey. 
Legs grizzled, not spotted. Tail elongate, tapering, with many nar- 
row black rings ; end blackish. Length 23 inches; tail 19 inches. 
Nandinia hinotata, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 44; Gerrard, Cat. 
Osteol. B. M. 80. 
Viverra binotata, Remwardt, MS.; Gray, Spic. Zool. 9; Smith, 
S. African Quart. Journ. ii. 134. 
Paradoxurus hamiltonii, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1832,p.67; Ilust. 
Ind. Zool. t.; Temm. Monogr. ii. 336, t. 65. f. 1. 
Paradoxurus * binotatus, Gray, P. Z.S. 1832, p. 68. 
P. binotatus, Temm. Monogr. ii. 336, t. 65. f. 7-9 (skull); Esq. 
Zool. 119, 120. 
Hab. West Africa: Fernando Po (Cross); Ashantee (Mus. Ley- 
den.); Guinea (Mus. Leyden.). 
Varies in the brightness and rufous tint of the fur, and also in the 
size of the spots; in some they are much larger, and apparently 
fewer, than in others. 
Orbit of skull not defined behind, confluent with the zygomatic 
cavity. Upper false grinders 3, compressed, first small, third with- 
out any distinct inner lobes ; flesh-tooth elongate, outer edge con- 
siderably longer than the width of the front edge, inner tubercle on 
the front edge; tubercular grinders two, front triangular, rather 
wider than the length of the outer edge, hinder small, circular. 
Length of skull 3! 4!’, of nose 1! 1''; width of brain-case 1! 23!", 
of zygoma 1" 10!", 
14. ParapoxuRws. 
Paradocurus, F. Cuv. Mamm. Lithogr. ii. t., 1821. 
Platyschista, Otto, Nov. Act. Acad. Leop. xvii. 1090, 1835. 
Viverra hermaphrodita, Pallas. 
Head conical. Nose flat, and with a central groove beneath. 
Whiskers numerous, strong, elongate. Toes 5—5. Frenum bald, 
glandular. The skull with the brain-case strongly and suddenly 
constricted in front ; forehead small, transverse, truncated behind. 
The orbit very incomplete, with only a short conical prominence 
above behind, and none on the zygomatic arch below; hinder part 
of the palate moderate, with only a very slight notch at each side on 
