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of hind feet broad, bald nearly to the heel. Tail elongate, slender, 
subcylindrical. The frenum covered with hair. Teeth 40. 
Skull elongate. Nose produced. Brain-case rather wide, but 
constricted and subcylindrical in front. Forehead broad, angular 
behind, and extending beyond the back edge of the orbits. The orbits 
nearly complete behind, there being an elongated slender process 
from the side of the forehead and a well-marked angle on the upper 
edge of the zygomatic arch. Hinder part of the palate very narrow, 
with a deep notch on each side in front, on a level with the hinder 
tubercular ; front of palate as wide as two-thirds its length. Teeth 
small ; the flesh-tooth triangular, with a long, narrow internal lobe; 
tubercular grinders oblong, the first nearly as long as broad. 
*‘T have formed this into a genus, on account of the smallness of 
the teeth and the protraction of the palate.’’—Peters’s Letter, Nov. 
11, 1864. 
I had already distinguished the genus, but gladly adopt Dr. Peters’s 
unpublished name to prevent the useless increase of generic names. 
ARCTOGALE TRIVIRGATA. B.M., type. 
Blackish brown, slightly silvered with the pale tips to the hairs ; 
back with three narrow black streaks ; throat, chest, and undersides 
dirty white ; the head and tail black ; feet blackish brown. 
Paguma trivirgata, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 55; Gerrard, Cat. 
Osteol. B. M. 79; Temm. Monogr. ii. 335, t. 53. f. 1 (skeleton) ; 
Horsfield, Cat. India House Mus. 64. 
Viverra trivirgata, Reinhardt, in Mus. Leyden. 
Paradovurus trivirgatus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 67; Temm. Esq. 
Zool. 120. 
P. levidens, fide Parzudaki’s MS. 
Hab. Java and Sumatra (Temm.) ; Malacca (Finlayson) ; Tenas- 
serim (Blyth). 
The black streak varies in distinctness and length in the different 
specimens, being sometimes very black and extending from the back 
of the head to the base of the tail, in others only distinctly visible 
in the middle of the back. The head and end of the tail are always 
blacker, and the throat whitish. There is no white spot under or 
above the eye; so that it cannot be Viverra hermaphrodita of Pallas, 
which is described as having three dorsal streaks ; and I cannot ob- 
serve any baldness of the frenum in the stuffed specimens. The tail 
in some lights looks as if it were very obscurely marked with narrow 
blackish rings; but they are not distinctly defined in any light. 
The Museum procured a young specimen from M. Parzudaki, of 
Paris, under the name of “P. levidens, inter P. larvatum et P. grayi 
intermedius, Ceylon.” The habitat and the affinities are mistakes. 
Species of this group requiring further examination. 
PARADOXURUS STIGMATICUS, Temm. Esq. Zool. 120. 
Fur short and smooth; that of the nape, upper part of the body, the 
