1864.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE VIVERRID#. 561 
Hab. India: Nepal, hill regions (Hodgson) ; Assam (M‘Clelland) ; 
Affghanistan (Griffith). 
Skull—orbit complete, like C. grisea and C. nyula, but smaller ; 
the nose short, like C. grisea, but more compressed ; teeth normal, 
very like C. nyula, the hinder tubercular being larger than in C, 
grisea. 
Skull, length 1,3; inch; width at brain-case ¢ inch, at zygoma 
13 inch. 
3. CALOGALE RUTILA. B.M. 
Grizzled chestnut-brown, variegated with black and white rings 
on the hairs; head and limbs darker chestnut, with scarcely any, 
or very narrow, white rings ; lips and throat and under part of the 
body uniform duller brown, not grizzled; ears brown; the nape with 
longer hairs, forming broad short crests. 
Herpestes rutilus, Gray, P. Z.S. 1861, p. 136. 
Hab. Cambogia (Mouhot), one specimen. 
4, CALOGALE MICROCEPHALA. 
Head very small ; teeth very small; ears close, short; nose very 
short and narrow. Fur finely dotted all over, deep brown and dull 
yellow, of the under part dirty white ; the under fur ashy at the base, 
with a very broad yellow band ; the hairs silky, blackish brown, with 
small ochraceous rings; the hairs of the tail with broader rings, 
those of the tip similar. 
Length of head and body 10 inches, of tail 93 inches. 
Herpestes microcephalus, Temm. Esq. Zool. 113. 
Hab. ? (Mus. Leyden, procured at Havre). 
** Tail-end bright bay, very slender. 
5. CALOGALE SANGUINEA. 
Head ashy, black-dotted ; body isabella-red; hair with tip and rings 
brown ; throat, chest, and belly white; feet pale ; tail isabella and 
black, varied, tip bright red brown. 
Length of head and body 114 inches, of tail 124 inches. 
Herpestes sanguineus, Riipp, Fauna Abyss. 27, t. 8 & 10 (skull) ; 
Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. 370. 
Hab. Abyssinia. 
6. CALOGALE GRANTII. B.M. 
Pale yellow brown, nearly uniform, very slightly grizzled, with 
white tips to the hairs; end of tail bay. 
Herpestes badius, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 100. 
Hab. East Africa: Mgunda Mkali (Capt. Speke). 
*** Tail-end black, very slender, 
7. CALOGALE MUTGIGELLA. B.M, 
Dark olive-brown, very minutely punctulated ; tail-end black. 
Proc. Zoou. Soc.—1864, No. XXXVI. 
