534 DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE VIVERRIDZ. [Nov. 8, 
Paradozurus crossii, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. ii. 67, 1832; Illust. 
Ind. Zool. ii. t. 7. 
P. musanga, var., Temm. Esq. Zool. 120. 
Paguma crossii, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B.M.54; Gerrard, Cat. Osteol. 
B.M. 79. 
Hab. India (Brit. Mus.). 
Described from an ad It specimen that was confined in the Surrey 
Zoological Gardens. It is very like P. grayi; but the fur is short, 
thick, and very close, and the colouring of the face is rather different. 
The nose is brown in the centre, with the brown colour extending 
under the eyes; the spot under the eye is small and indistinct. 
The skulls of the type specimens of P. crossii and P. nigrifrons 
in the British Museum are very much alike in general shape, in 
the breadth of the palate compared with the length, and in the form 
of the grinders, including the flesh-tooth. Considering the variations 
which individuals of the same species present, if we had had 
only the skulls, not knowing the characters of the fur and the 
colours of the two species, we might have considered them to be 
varieties of the same species. But knowing that they are the skulls 
of two very distinct species, one can perceive that the nasal bones 
are much longer, and the condyles of the skull larger and more 
oblique, in P. erossii than the same parts in the skull of P. nigrifrons. 
The bulla of the ears is differently shaped, ending below in small 
acute-keeled prominences in P. crossii, while in P. nigrifrons the 
whole outer hinder edge is strongly keeled. P. crossii is rather 
narrower at the zygoma. ‘These differences might be peculiar to 
the individual in each case ; and I should not have considered them 
of specific importance, if [ had not known the external characters and 
appearance of the animals. 
The measurements of the two skulls are as follows, in inches and 
twelfths :— 
P. crossii.  P. nigrifrons. 
ReneenGlSeUN to Sic cae en a gM 3103" 
OE DOS oars. scales ges 
- OF PHATE carta t ong a) ra 
Width of last grinders........ | comes 
——-— of brain-case.......... 1 3 hat 
= OF ZY POW. ces jerk paint 2. 45 2 er 
M. Temminck refers Paradoxurus crossii to P. musanga, and ob- 
serves that ‘‘it is established on the same specimens as served as the 
model for the figure of Horsfield.”” How he could have made such 
an extraordinary mistake I cannot conceive. P. crossii was de- 
scribed from a specimen living in the Surrey Zoological Gardens, 
which did not arrive in this country until several years after Dr. 
Horsfield’s work was published; and Dr. Horsfield’s figure was 
drawn from a stuffed specimen collected by himself in Java, and for 
years exhibited in the Museum at the India House ; while the type 
specimen of P. crossii was, and is still, in the collection of the British 
Museum. I feel that little reliance can be placed on M. Temminck’s 
statements as to his observations on type specimens. Probably in 
