1868.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON MELES CHINENSIS. 207 



2. Meles anakuma, Temnl. 



Skull small ; face broad, tapering, narrow, and rounded in front ; 

 the nasal aperture oblong, moderate, higher than broad ; the post- 

 orbital opening very large, oblong. 



The skull is well figured by Temm. & Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, 

 t. 6. The name of this animal is erroneously printed M. ankuma, 

 inP. Z. S. 1865, p. 140. 



II. The skull oblong, elongate ; the forehead and upper part of 

 the nose narrow, subcylindrical above ; face elongate, tapering, 

 rounded in front ; nose-hole moderate, rounded, as broad as long ; 

 the flesh-teeth of the lower jaw large, longer than the line occupied 

 by the three premolars. Pseudomeles, Hodgson. 



3. Meles leucurus. Tampha or Tumpha. 



Fur long, flaccid, dark iron-grey, black, grey, and white mixed ; 

 hair long, white, with a broad sublunate black band and a white 

 tip ; under-fur abundant, long, white ; a streak on each side of the 

 forehead blackish-grey-varied ; chin, throat, legs, and underside of 

 body black ; tail, sides of head and body whitish. 



Taxidea leueura, Hodgson, Journ. A. S. Beng. xvi. 763, t. 31, 1847. 



Pseudomeles leucurus, Hodgson, MS. 1850. 



Meles leucurus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1853, p. 191 ; 1865, p. 139. 



Hab. Tibet, "Bhote Plains:" called Tampha (Hodgson). 



As I observed in the 'Proceedings' 1865, p. 140, the skin 

 is very like that of Arcfonyx collaris, but differs in the chin and 

 throat being black, and in the black streak on the face commenc- 

 ing on the side of the front of the nose, including the eyes. 



4. Meles chinensis*. 



Fur short, harsh, yellow-brown, varied with black and grey ; tips 

 of the breast-hairs rigid, moderately short, yellow, with a narrow- 

 black snbterminal ring and yellow tip ; under-fur almost entirely 

 absent. 



Streak from end of nose on each side of the face, including the 

 eye, the back of the ears, chin, throat, legs and ie^t, and underside 

 of the body black; tail slender, harsh, yellow; some of the hair of 

 the upper part with a black subterminal ring. 



Arctonyx collaris, no. 206, c, Gerrard, Cat. of Bones B.M. p. 98. 



1 Meles taxus amurensis, Schrenck, Amurland, xvii. t. 1. f. 1-4. 



Hab. China, Hongkong (Dr. Hartland), Anioy {H.M.C. Sivin- 

 hoe). 



The general colouring is so like that of the European Badger that 

 it is probably the M. taxus, var., of Middendorff (N. u. O. Sibir. 

 Mamm. 3), and Meles taxus, var. amurensis, Schrenck, Amurlande, 

 xviii. t. 1. f. 1-4 ; but the fur is much shorter, and the hair not so 



* This may probably be Meles leptorhynchus, A. Milne-Edwards, from Northern 

 China, indicated Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, viii. Cahier 6. — J. E. G. 



