568 DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE VIVERRID&. | Nov. 8, 
27. Urva. 
Urva, Hodgson; Gray, Cat. Mam. B. M. 50. 
Mesobema, Hodgson. 
Head broad. Ears rounded. Nose rather produced, with a lon- 
gitudinal groove beneath. Body elongate. Legs short. Tail conical, 
attenuated, covered with long hairs. Toes 5—5; claws compressed, 
rather short, curved; inner toes of fore and hind feet very short, 
with short claws rather high up the foot. Claws brown. Hind part 
of the soles of hind feet covered with hair, that is bent towards the 
centre on each side. The front part bald, oblong, narrow behind, 
occupying less than two-thirds of the foot, with three subequal pads 
in front and two elongated pads on each side of the hinder edge 
(Hodgson, J. A. 8. B. t. 31. f. 5). Front upper false grinders 2, 
compressed ; the third subtriangular, with a very small subposterior 
internal tubercle, and a small posterior marginal one ; flesh-tooth 
large, elongate, triangular, nearly twice as long as the front margin, 
with a large internal lobe on the front edge; tubercular grinders 
transverse, twice as broad as long on the outer edge ; hinder tuber- 
cular very small, oblong, transverse. 
Urva CANCRIVORA. The Urva. B.M. 
Black-grizzled, hairs with a very broad white subterminal ring ; a 
white streak on the side of the neck ; legs and feet black ; tail ashy 
red at the end. 
Urva cancrivora, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. vi. 560; 
Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 50; Gerrard, Cat. Ost. B. M. 73; Schinz, 
Syn. Mamm. i. 358 ; Horsfield, Cat. India House Mus. 93. 
Mesobema cancrivorus, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, x. 
910; Calcutta Journ. N. H. ii. 214, iv. 287. 
Gulo urva, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. v. 238; Calcutta 
Journ. N. H. ii. 45, t. 134. f. 2. 
Hab. India—Nepal, in caverns, Central Northern region (Hodg- 
son); Affghanistan (Grifith); Arakan (Blyth). 
Fur lax, elongate, ringed, blackish ashy, more or less grizzled by 
the white tips to the hairs; lips and cheeks whitish ; a long streak 
on the side of neck white ; legs and feet black ; tail bushy, appearing 
more or less irregularly banded from the dark band on the hairs. 
The not quite adult skull of Urva cancrivora is very like that of 
Teniogale vitticollis, but considerably smaller. The orbit is incom- 
plete. The zygomatic arches not so bowed out, with most convex part 
nearer the hinder end, The nose is rather thick. The contraction 
of the brain-case is just over the hinder part of the orbit ; the brain- 
case is rather longer (perhaps ;/yth) than the face. The teeth are 
normal, and very like in form and proportion to those of 7’, vitéi- 
collis; but they are rather narrower, and the first tubercular molar 
is shorter and broader, more oblong, and the hinder tubercular molar 
smaller. Length of the skull 33 inches; width of the brain-case 
14 inch, of the zygomatic arch 2 inches. 
Lower jaw slender; chin gradually shelving; the lower edge 
