1864. ] DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE VIVERRIDE. 533 
Paradorurus hermaphrodita, Gray, P. Z. 8. 1832, p. 69. 
Platyschista pallasii, Otto, N. Act. Leop. xvii. 1089, t. 71, 72. 
Viverra nigra, Desm. Mamm. 208, from Buffon, Suppl. iil. t. 47. 
La Marte des Palmiers, ou le Pougonne, F. Cuy. Mamm. Lithogr. 
Paradoxurus typus, F. Cuv. Mamm. Lithogr.; Fischer, Syn. 
Mamm. 158; Temm. Monogr. ii. 215; Esq. Zool. 126; Ogilby, 
Zool. Journ. iv. 303 ; Horsfield, Cat. India House Mus. 60; Gerrard, 
Cat. Osteol. B. M. 80; Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. 384. 
Genette de France, Buffon, H. N. vii. 58; Suppl. in. t. 47. 
Musk or Musky Weasel, Penn. Quadr. 
Hab. Continental India, in the plains: Bengal (J’emm.); Madras 
(Jerdon). 
This species differs from the preceding in being small and much 
blacker. Only one of the wild specimens in the Museum, in a good 
state of fur, shows any indication of the three black dorsal streaks ; 
but the fur can easily be placed so as to make three more or less 
interrupted ones apparent: and some of the specimens, which have 
the tips of the longer hairs worn off, have a somewhat striped appear- 
ance on the back ; but this is evidently only depending on the bad 
state of the specimens from their having been kept in confinement. 
The skull is very like that of P. zeylanicus; the teeth are rather 
larger ; the nose rather narrower in front ; the flesh-tooth is rather 
broad and thick ; the front tubercular grinder is transverse, narrower 
on the inner side, and contracted in front and behind in the middle ; 
the hinder tubercular is very small and circular ; the palate-edge is 
arched behind. The skull is very old, and the orbit is rather more 
defined behind than usual. 
The Viverra hermaphrodita of Pallas is thus described :—“Ashy 
black hairs, grey at the base, black at the tip; beneath pale, a white 
spot under the eye; ears, throat, and feet black ; nose, whiskers, and 
back with three black streaks; tail longer than the body, black at the 
tip; claws yellow. Most probably this species is also the Platyschista 
pallasii of Otto; but his figure makes the stripes on the back more 
distinct than they are usually seen, and the sides of the body too 
spotted ; but it is easy to make a specimen look like the figure. 
The figure of the teeth of P. ¢ypus, in De Blainville’s ‘ Ostéogra- 
phie,’ better represents the teeth of our P. zeylanicus than of P. 
typus. Perhaps it is not from the skeleton found on plate 2, which 
is said to be the animal described by F. Cuvier. The chief differ- 
ence between the skulls of the two species is, that the internal lobe 
.of the flesh-tooth in P. zeylanicus is in a straight line with the front 
edge of the tooth, whereas in P. typus it is rather in front of the outer 
part of the front edge of the tooth. 
The skeleton of the animal first described by F. Cuvier as Para- 
doxurus typus is engraved by De Blainville, Ostéogr. t. 2. 
4, PARADOXURUS CROSSII. B.M. 
Fur short and close, erect, pale iron-grey without any spots or 
stripes, spot on side of nose, under orbit, forehead, and base of ears 
whitish ; nose dark brown; feet and ends of the tail black. 
