688 DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE URSID&. [ Dee. 13, 
** Fur short, close, uniform, deep black. Asia. 
4. Ursus rorquatus. Indian Black Bear. B.M. 
Fur black ; chin white; a broad, forked, white mark on the chest, 
rather contracted behind ; cheeks with prominent bushy hairs; face 
brownish ; palate of skull narrow, concave ; upper tubercular elon- 
gate, half as long again as the flesh-tooth. 
Ursus thibetanus, F. Cuvier, Mamm. Lithogr. t.; Fischer, Syn. 
Mamm. 145; Owen, P. C. S. Z. 8. 1. 76, 1831 (anatomy); Radde, 
Mélanges Biologiques de St. Pétersbourg, iii. 677, 1861; Hodgson, 
J. A. 8S. B..1.. 340, x. 910; P.Z. 8.1.96; Caleut. J..N. oH. ay. 
288. 
U. ferox, Robinson, Assam, 69. 
Helarctos malayanus, Hodgson, J. A. 8. B. i. 340. 
H. tibetanus, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 73; Hodgson, Cat. B. M. 
15; Horsfield, Cat. Ind. House, 124. 
Ursus torquatus, Schinz, Syn. Mamm. 302; Wagner, Suppl. 
Schreb. t. 141 D; Hiigel, Kaschmir, iv. 570; Fraser, Cat. Mamm. 
Zool. Soc. Gard. 2. 
Hab. India, Nepal, central hilly region (Hodgson) ; East Siberia 
(Radde). Not found in Thibet (Hodgson, J. A. S. B. xi. 282). 
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The specimen &, which has the wider palate, also has a much more 
eonvex forehead. 
Var. 1. arboreus. 
Upper tubercular and nose shorter. 
Ursus hindaicus arboreus, Oldham, MS. B. M. (young skull). 
Hab. Darjeeling (Oldham, Hodgson). 
The skull has a broad short nose, rounded above ; the nose-open- 
ing as high as wide ; forehead convex, broad, rounded on the sides ; 
nasal bones very broad, large, extending back to a line even with the 
middle of the orbits; lower edge of lower jaw straight; the last 
tubercular grinders broad, larger than the flesh-tooth, oblique, trun- 
cated on the outer hinder side, not wider than long ; palate nearly 
flat, slightly concave in front, rather contracted behind, on a line with 
the last edge of the tubercular grinder; hinder opening of the 
nostrils elongate, scarcely contracted behind, sides longer than the 
width of the front edge. 
