1864.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE VIVERRID. 555 
Herpestes javanicus, Desm. Mamm. 212; Gray, Cat. Mamm. 
B. M. 51; Gerrard, Cat. Ost. B. M. 73; Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. 
372; Horsf. Cat. India House Mus. 88. 
Mangusta javanica, Horsf. Zool. Java, t. 
Mustela galera, Desm. (fide icon. ined.). 
Viverra mangusta, Temm. 
Ichneumon javanicus, Geoff. Mém. Egypt, ii. 157. 
Hab. Java and Sumatra (Horsfield, Miiller) ; Penang and Malay 
peninsula (Cantor). 
Young.— Pale bay ; some of the hair of the tail with long grey tips. 
Hab. Sumatra (Raffles). 
19. HERPESTES SEMITORQUATUS. B.M. 
Dark red brown, very slightly punctulated ; cheeks and side of 
the neck uniform pale bay; legs and feet black ; tail black, with 
some white tips to the hairs. 
Length of body and head 18 inches, tail 11 inches. 
Herpestes semitorquatus, Gray, Zool. Sulphur, t. 3. f. 1-3, 1849 ; 
Gerrard, Cat. Ost. B. M. 74. 
Hab. Borneo (Belcher). 
Like H. brachyurus in some respects ; but the tail is longer, and 
the sides of the neck bright pale red, separated from the other 
parts by a defined line. 
The skull is not quite adult, much broader compared with its 
length than even that of H. paludosus. The contraction in the front 
of the brain-cavity is slight, and rather in front of the back edge of 
the orbit. The orbit is rather large, and slightly incomplete behind ; 
the zygomatic arch is rather short, and not much bowed out. The 
teeth are normal, and very like those of H. ichneumon; they occupy 
a rather shorter space. Length of the skull 34 inches ; width of the 
brain-case 1,5,, of the zygomatic arch 143 inch. Skull short and broad. 
Lower jaw: chin shelving ; lower edge arched, without any pro- 
minence under the end of the tooth-line; false grinders 4—4; the 
front false grinder small, deciduous ; the tubercular grinders oblong, 
longitudinal, with two unequal anterior and one large posterior 
tubercle. 
20. HERPESTES EXILIS. 
“ Pallide flavo nigroque annulatis ; capite et dorso cinnamomeo 
et nigro annulatis ; pedibus nigrescentibus, gula cinnamomea, 
ventre pallidiore ; cauda pilosa, non penicillata, palmis plantis- 
que nudis. 
‘© Long. corp. 10} inches, caudz 8 inches.” 
Herpestes exilis, Eydoux, Zool. de la Bonite, t. 3. f. 7-9 ; Schinz, 
Syn. Mamm. i. 375. 
“ Hab. Kast Indies, Touranne (Lydouz).”’ 
21. HeRPESTES MALACCENSIS. 
Dull ashy, beneath rather paler; hairs black, white-and-yellow 
