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PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVAUT ON THE ^LUROIDEA. [Feb. 7, 



' Voyage de la Boiiite,' p. 28, pi. v., which is a good coloured repre- 

 sentation of the animal, with outline of skull and teeth, which are 

 also figured (under the name Paradoxufus derbyanus) on pis. vii. and 

 xii. of De Blainville's ' Osteographie ' (Fiverra). It is an inhabi- 

 tant of Malacca and Borneo. It differs strikingly from most other 

 Viverridce by its system of coloration, as it has transverse stripes 

 instead of longitudinal markings and spots. It is in this respect 

 only aj)proached by the Liusangs. Its ground-colour is whitish 



Fig. 10. 



Pads of Hemigalea. 

 A, left manus ; B, left pes. 



yellow, with red-brown markings. The tail is ringed at its proximal 

 part, but is black distally. There are three stripes on the head, 

 two down the neck, and it is irregularly marked on the shoulders. 

 The hair on the dorsum of the neck is reversed in direction. The 

 claws are sharp and retractile. 



The pads, besides those beneath the five toes, are concentrated, so 

 as to iorm a considerable naked space (pointed upwards) on the 

 metatarsus, while the tarsus is almost, if not quite, entirely hairy. 

 No hairy interval divides the jiroximal and distal portions of the 

 palmar pad. The claws are strongly arched (r/. fig. 14 D, p. 192. 



