536 DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE VIVERRIDZ.- [Nov. 8, 
the fur; but it is rather darker in every part, and the crown and 
cheeks are reddish black, being in P. crossiz grey or whitish. 
In the blackness of the cheeks and throat and the paleness of the 
forehead this species is allied to P. musanga; but the fur is shorter, 
and I cannot find any indications of dorsal streaks or spots, and the 
whiteness of the forehead is much more indistinct and diffused than 
in any specimens of that species I have seen. ‘The specimen has 
been in confinement ; but its fur is in very good condition. 
*** The skull broad ; the width of the head at the last tooth about 
two-thirds of the length of the palate; the flesh-tooth broad, 
massive, triangular, with a large internal lobe occupying two- 
thirds of the inner side. Macrodus. 
6. PARADOXURUS FASCIATUS. 
Fur short, close, blackish grey; back with five longitudinal black 
streaks, more or less broken, especially the side ones, into spots ; 
sides, shoulders, and thighs with small spots; face, occiput, chin, 
throat, and end of tail black ; forehead, spot on side of nose, and 
under orbit white. 
Viverra fasciata, Desm. Mamm. 209. 
Genetta fasciata, Lesson, Mamm. 174. 
V. geoffroyti, Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 171. 
Paradoxurus musanga, Gray, P. Z. 8. 1832, p. 16. 
P. musanga, var. javanica, Horsf. Java, t.; Temm. Monogr, ii. 
317, t. 53. f. 2-5, t. 54. f. 1, 2, 3 (skulls); Esquis. Zool. 120; 
Horsf. Cat. India House Mus. 62; Gerrard, Cat. Osteol. B. M. 80; 
Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. 382. 
Viverra musanga, Raffles, Linn. Trans. xiii. 255. 
Musang, Marsden, Sumatra, 110, t. 12. 
Paradoxurus typus, var. sumatranus, Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 159. 
P. setosus, Homb. & Jacq. Voy. de PAstr. Zool. ili, 25, t. 
Var. Forehead more white :— 
? Paradoxurus pallasii, Gray, P. Z. 8. 1832, p.67; Tlust. Ind. 
Zool. t.; Horsfield, Cat. India House Mus. 63. 
? P. albifrons, Bennett, in Zool. Gardens List (not of Cuvier). 
Var. Tip of tail white. 
Hab. Malacca, Java, Sumatra, Borneo (Horsfield). 
M. Temminck confounds Paradocurus crossii and P. pallasii with 
this species (see Esquis. Zool. 220). 
The size of the spots on the face and the extent and pureness of 
the white on the forehead vary ; but the animal always has a distinct 
brown or black mark on the back of the cheeks, most distinctly de- 
fined on the lower part of the face. The species has been divided into 
several on account of these differences. 
A specimen from Borneo in the Museum is so black that the spots 
are scarcely to be distinguished; but there are specimens in the 
collection that are intermediate between it and those which have 
the common colour of the species. 
