532 DR. J. E- GRAY ON THE VIVERRIDE. [Nov. 8, 
Paradoxurus zeylanicus, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M.55; Gerrard, 
Cat. Osteol. B. M. 79; Kelaart, Fauna Zey]l. 
Viverra zeylanica, Pallas in Schreb. Saugeth. 45 ; Fischer, Syn. 
Mamm. 172. 
V. ceylonensis, Bodd. 
2? Paradoxurus aureus, Desm. Mamm. 540; F. Cuvier, Mém. Mus. 
ix. 47, t. 4; Gerrard, Cat. Osteol. B. M. 79. 
P. typicus, De Blainy. Ostéogr. Viverra, t. 12 (teeth), t. 7 (skull). 
? Arctictis aureus, Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 158. 
Hab. Ceylon (Pallas, Kelaart). 
These animals differ in the intensity of the colour of the fur: 
some are bright golden, and others much more brown ; the latter is 
P. fuscus of Kelaart. One of our specimens has a bright yellow ring 
near the tip of the tail. 
Third upper false grinders with only a slight indication of a lobe 
in the middle of the inner edge ; the flesh-tooth with the outer edge 
scarcely longer than the width of the front edge ; first tubercular 
large (with the inner edge narrower than the outer one), larger than 
in P. philippensis. 
The figure of the skull and of the teeth of the skull named Para- 
doxurus typicus in De Blainville’s ‘ Ostéographie,’ tt. 7 & 12, exactly 
represents the skull and teeth of our Paradowxurus aureus received 
in the skin from Ceylon. 
Dr. Kelaart has described, and we have in the British Museum, two 
varieties of P. zeylanicus differing in the intensity of the colour of 
the fur. In the British Museum we have three skulls, with their 
permanent teeth, said to have been sent from Ceylon, one being from 
the skin in the collection sent by Dr. Kelaart : one is larger and rather 
broader than the other two, which are younger. In two of them 
the flesh-teeth are nearly similar, with a moderate-sized internal 
lobe, and the first and hinder upper tubercular grinders are much 
larger in one of these than in the other. In the third skull, which is 
the larger, the internal lobe of the flesh-tooth is much longer, com- 
pared with the size of the outer portion, than in the preceding skulls ; 
and the first tubercular grinder is much larger, longer, and more 
massive compared with its width than in either of the preceding ; 
in this skull the hinder tubercular is yet not developed. 
Is it that these skulls belong to, and are characteristic of, the two 
animals which we have thus wrongly called varieties? or does the 
difference merely arise from their being of two sexes? Genera have 
been formed on less differences in the Carnivora. 
3. PARADOXURUS HERMAPHRODITUS. B.M. 
Fur long, rigid, harsh, blackish more or less varied with the pale 
colours of the lower part of the hairs, scarcely showing three indi- 
stinct black streaks on the back ; under fur thick, soft, and very pale 
reddish ; the feet and end of the tail black ; spot under the eye and 
the forehead paler, more or less grey or whitish. 
Viverra hermaphrodita, Pallas, Schreb. Saugeth. 426. 
