1867.] 



DR. J. E. GRAY ON A NKVV OTTER. 



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LUTRONECTES WHITELEYl. 



Dark brown ; cheeks, lips, chin, and throat greyish white. 



1 Lutra vulgaris, Temni. Fauna Japonica, 35; Schrenck, Reisen 

 in Amurlande, 43. 



Hub. Japan. 



Like many other Otters, these so closely resemble the Common 

 European Otter that lam not surprised that M. Temminck should 

 have confounded them with that species. 



Length of body and head 17|, of tail 10 inches. 



Lufronectes whitdeyi. 



Skull : — Length about 4 inches fback imperfect) ; width at back 

 of zygomatic arch 2 inches 1 hne ; length of palate 1 inch Ik Hnes, 

 of tooth-line 1 inch 7| lines ; width at the upper tubercular grinder 

 1 inch 5 lines. 



The two skulls slightly differ in the size of the teeth and in the 

 width of the palate. 



I have great pleasure in naming this species after Mr. Henry 

 Whiteley, junior, of Woolwich, who brought it from Hadodadi in 

 Japan with many other interesting animals, and who has become a 

 martyr to science in the course of his labours as a natural-history 



