1885.] 



GENUS PARADOXURUS. 



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the Philippine Islands, and in this list included a species of Marten. 

 He used no such name as Martes philippensis, but his supposed 

 Marten may have been the present Paradoxurus. 



Fig. 3. 



Half palate imd dentition vi P. jjhUipjjinensls. (Spec. nu. B.M. 42.2.15.242.) 



Jourdaii's description is very poor, but there is no reason to sup- 

 pose thac the species described by liim was different. Temminck's 

 description was taken from the Pliilippine specimens in the British 

 Museum by Mr. Ogilby ; but Temminck was mistaken in supposing 

 that the Ambliodon dore of Jourdan was the same species. 



4. Paradoxurus macrodus. 



Paradoxurus macrodus. Gray, P. Z. S. 1S6A, p. 538 ; Cat. Carn. 

 &c. Mam. B. M. 1869, p. 70. 



This species is only known by a skull jireserved in the British- 

 Museum collection. This skull was received from the Zoological 

 Society many years ago, when the Society's museum became a part 

 of the National Collection. Nothing is known of the locality or 

 history of the specimen, and the skin has not been preserved. 



The general form of the skull, which has been figured in the 

 Society's 'Proceedings' and in the British-Museum Catalogue, differs 

 in no respect from that of P. hermaphroditus, but the teeth are very 

 much larger, the sectorial in both upper and lower jaw and the first 

 true molar in the upper and fourth premolar in the lower especially. 

 It is true that there is a gradual increase in size in these teeth from 

 Indian or Ceylonese examples of P. niyer to Bornean skulls of P. 

 hermaphroditus, but the difference between the latter and P. macrodus 

 is greater than that between the teeth of Ceylonese or Indian and 

 of Bornean skulls. 



