560 DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE VIVERRIDZ. [Nov. 8, 
of nose 13 inch; width of brain-case 13 inch, of back of mouth 
12 inch, of zygomatic arch 23 inches. 
21. CALOGALE. 
Body elongate. Tail very long, slender, cylindrical, covered with 
short hair, with longer at the tip. Toes 5—5 ; claws short, triangular, 
acute. Pupil linear, erect. Skull elongate; brain-case elongate, 
two-thirds the length of skull (see Peters, Reise, t. 28). Teeth 40; 
false grinders 2/3, 2/3, compressed ; flesh-tooth narrow, much longer 
than broad, with inner tubercles on front edge; tubercular grinders 
2-2 : 
icy transverse, hinder very small. 
* Tail like back, rather thick. 
1. CALOGALE NYULA. B.M. 
Pale grey, very closely and minutely black-and-white punctulated ; 
tail elongate, rather tapering, coloured like the back. 
Herpestes nyula, Hodgson, J. A. 8S. Beng. 1836, p. 236; Gray, 
Cat. Mamm.,.B. M. 52; Gerrard, Cat. Ost. B. M. 75; Horsf. Cat. 
India House Mus. 92. 
H. pallidus (partly), Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. 373. 
H. nigula, Hodgson, Calcutta Journ. N. H. iv. 287. 
Hab. India: Nepal, Open Tarai (JZodgson) ; Salt Range (Oldham). 
Length of head and body 15 inches, tail 12 inches. 
The largest species of the genus, but much smaller than Herpestes 
griseus, which it somewhat resembles. ; 
Skull very like H. griseus, but nose longer; orbit complete, and 
more compressed and tapering ; the flesh-tooth and the front tuber- 
cular grinder rather larger and more massive. , 
Skull—length 23 inches; width at brain-case 1 inch, at zygo- 
matic arch 13 inch. 
These animals have the tail rather more bushy than the more typical 
Calogale ; but they have the narrow skull and longer narrow brain- 
case and slender narrow flesh-tooth of the genus. 
2. CALOGALE NEPALENSIS. B.M. 
Dark grey, very minutely and closely punctulated, with black and 
pale-whitish hairs, with a broad subterminal pale band ; tail subeylin- 
drical, pencilled at the end, coloured like the back. 
Length 13 inches, tail 11 inches. 
Herpestes nepalensis, Gray, Mag. N. H. 578, 1836; Hodgson, 
J.A.S. Beng. 235 ; Gerrard, Cat. Osteol. B. M. 74; Horsfield, Cat. 
India House Mus. 91. 
H. auropunctatus, Hodgson, J. A. Soc. Beng. i. 578; Schinz, Syn. 
Mamm. i. 373. 
HT, javanicus, Hodgson. 
H. griseus, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xiv. 346. 
H. pallipes, Blyth, J. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xiv. 346. 
