1864.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE VIVERRID&. 569 
curved, arched up behind,-to near the condyle behind. ‘The false 
grinders 4—4 ; the front small, concave. Tubercular grinders mode- 
rate, oblong, elongate, with two small anterior and two large high 
posterior prominences. 
In the ‘Illustrations of Indian Zoology’ I figured an animal under 
the name of Viverra ? fusea, from one of General Hardwick’s draw- 
ings. In the ‘Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist.,’ 1842, p- 260, I proposed 
for it a genus named Osmetectis. As yet I have never seen or 
heard of an animal from India that agrees with the figure. It has 
been supposed that it may be Urva cancrivora of Hodgson; but it 
does not well represent that species. 
28. TNIOGALE. 
Mungos, sp.?, Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 103. 
Whiskers weak, slender. Nose grooved beneath. Toes 5—5. 
Claws compressed, rather elongate, very acute. Thumb short ; claw 
distinct, rather elevated. Great toes very short, indistinct, with a 
small claw ; hinder claws broader. Soles of the hind feet quite bald 
to the heei. Ears rounded. Skull oval. Teeth 42 ; false grinders 
3/4, 3/4, first conical, second and third with three unequal tubercles; 
tubercular grinders —, first upper triangular, large, second short, 
twice as broad as long (Ogilby, J. c.). 
Mr. Ogilby described this animal as having 42 teeth, 3 false 
grinders in the upper, and 4 in the lower jaw. Perhaps one tooth 
in the lower jaw was in exchange. 
T#NIOGALE VITTICOLLIS. B.M. 
Black, red-washed ; hair very long, soft, black, with long red tips; 
head black, minutely punctulated ; legs and feet black ; tail black ; 
streak on side of throat black ; the front claw elongate, compressed, 
arched. 
Mungos vitticollis, Gray, Cat. Mam. B. M. 50 (not Ogilby) ; 
Gerrard, Cat. Ost. B. M. 72. 
Herpestes vitticollis, Bennett, P. Z. S. 1835, p- 67; Madras 
Journ. 1839, p. 103, t. 2; Schinz, Syn. Mamm. 374; Temm. Esq. 
Zool. 111. 
Mangusta vitticollis, Elliot, Madras Journ. of Lit. & Sci. 1840, 
p- 12, t.1; De Blainv. Ostéogr. 48, t. 96. 
Mungos ? vitticollis, Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 103. 
Hab. India: Madras, in thick forests (W. Elliot); Travancore 
(P. Poole). 
Varies in the greyness of the fur and the extent and darkness of the 
red bay on the sides of the neck and body, there being least on the 
specimens that have the most grey and distinctly white rigid hairs. 
In some specimens (perhaps in some seasons) the whole animal has 
a bright bay tint from the tips of the longest hairs. 
The skull is elongate, like that of Athylax paludosus; but the 
brain-case is more ventricose and higher, and the orbit smaller and 
