mo JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXIV. 



The following is a key to the forms proposed :- 



A. 



Key, 



General pattern variegated, i.e., a 



pale ground colour irregular!}- 



splashed with black. 



Darker, ground colour "ochraceous 



buff" limbs "tawny" (Bengal, 



Kumaon, &c.) 



Paler, ground colour "buff" or 

 even "cream buff" limbs "ochra- 

 ceous buff" (Khandesh, Kathia- 

 war, &c.) 



G. indicus indicus, 

 Hodgson, 



(;, 



B. 



indAcus Iwla, 

 subsp. nov. 



a. 



h. 



General pattern grizzled, i.e., ground 



colour black, ticked with white. 

 Larger, thii-d upper premolar with 

 a supplementary median-internal 



rooted lobe, (Ceylon) C. lanlici, s.ip. n. 



Smaller, no supplementar}^ lobe 

 on third upper premolar (West- 

 Coast) C. naria, sp. n. 



The following are descriptions of the various forms : — 



Ganis indicus. 



Hodgson. 



Fur long, 60-70 mm. on the back, under-fur scanty. 



General colour of the back "ochraceous buff", irregular Ij^ and 

 coarsely splashed Mdth black, the individual hairs black, with a 

 subterminal, broad, "ochraceous buff" ring (15 mm. or more wide), 

 the black tip 10 mm., under fur drab." Face dull tawny, with 

 some admixture of black especially below the ej^es. Tail coloured 

 like back. Limbs tan or "tawny," feet paler. Chin and tiiroat 

 white, sides of throat ochraceous buff which extends, as a collar, 

 downwards across the throat. Abdomen ochraceous like the flanks. 



Dimensions of a rather old female from Lohra, Hazaribagh : — 

 Head and hodj, 700 ; tail, 235 ; hindfoot, 147 ; ear, 75. Skull :— 

 Greatest length, 856 ; condylo-basal length, 148 ; palatilar length, 

 73 ; zygomotic breadth, 82 ; back of molar tooth row to front of 

 carnassial, 32; carnassial, 16 ; back of first molar to front of 

 canine, 61. 



The Surve}?" has furnished 39 specimens of this form, viz. : — 

 Sikkim, 10, Kumaon, 15, and Bengal Orissa, 14. Our material 

 from Burma is meagre and bad, but I see no reason to doubt that 

 the Burmese jackal is G. indicus. 



