544 DR, J. E. GRAY ON THE VIVERRID&. [Nov. & 
sides, the four members, and the tail is red-brown, with a silvery 
lustre ; the silky hairs of all parts are tipped with yellowish white. 
Head black brown, with a fulvous lustre; a pure-white longitudinal 
band extends from the forehead to the origin of the muffle, covering 
the ridge of the nose ; the ears naked externally, with the base of 
the inner side hairy. The tail and the end of the tail chocolate. 
Length of head and body 17 inches, tail 19 inches. 
Hab. Borneo (Schwaner, Temm., Mus. Leyden.). 
A single, very old, male specimen. Size and form of P. trivir- 
gatus. 
Parapoxurus Levcotis, Blyth,in Horsf. Cat. India House Mus. 
66. 
Fur rather long, soft, silky; of upper part of the body, neck, 
head, and two-thirds of the tail tawny, becoming reddish brown on 
the back and sides; thighs and legs, throat and abdomen, lighter ; 
tail very long, and deep chestuaut-brown; whiskers long, blackish 
brown ; nose with a central white line; ears scarcely covered with 
scattered yellowish hairs. 
Hab. Tenasserim, Arracan (Mus. India). 
PARADOXURUS STRICTUS. 
Paradoxurus strictus, Hodgson, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1855, 
xvi. 105. 
General colour grey, with a slight rusty shade; two prominent 
white spots on each side of the head, one beneath the eye oblong, 
tending forward, one behind the eye larger, triangular, tending 
backward ; five continuous stripes, regularly defined and straight, of 
a deep black colour, commencing on the neck, extend over the whole 
length of the body, having on each side beneath an interrupted band 
of black spots. Abdomen grey. ‘Tail exceeding the body in length ; 
mixed grey and black at the base; the terminal portion black, the 
colour increasing in deepness towards the extremity. Legs black. 
Throat grey, with a medial black stripe. Ears developed. 
Length from the snout to the root of the tail 23 inches, of the 
tail 25 inches. 
Hab. India. 
PARADOXURUS QUADRISCRIPTUS. 
Paradoxurus quadriscriptus, Hodgson, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 
1855, xvi. 106; Gray, P. Z.S. 1853, p. 191. 
General colour grey, with a slight rufous shade extending over 
the whole of the body, over one-half of the tail, over the forehead 
and the lower part of the ear. On the back and parts adjoining, 
four well-defined continuous black stripes pass from the neck to the 
rump, having a shorter interrupted band on each side. The bridge 
of the nose in the middle, a well-defined narrow streak from the 
canthus of the eye, the neck, the feet, and the terminal part of the 
tail are black ; on the upper part of the neck the hairy covering is 
slightly variegated black and grey, the separate piles being grey at 
