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Dimensions of the type : — Head and body, 670 ; tail, 210 ; hindfoot, 

 140 ; ear, 77. Skull: — Greatest length, 148; condylo-basal length, 

 140; palatilar length, 68; zygomatic breadth, 81; back of molar 

 tooth row to front of carnassial, 30 ; carnassial, 15*5 ; back of first 

 molar to front of canine, 58. 



Hah. — West Coast of Penins^^la, from Bomba}'- southwards. 

 Type from Coorg. 



Tj/iJe. — Adult female. B. M. No. 16.4.16.31. Original number 

 2364. Collected by Mr. G. C. Shortridge on 23rd January 1913, 

 and presented to the National Collection by the Bomloay Natural 

 History Society. 



The Survey obtained altogether 23 specimens, from Ratnagiri, 

 southwards through Kanara, Dharwar, and Mysore, to Coorg. 



Ganis lanha, sp. n. 



A species outwardty resembling C. naria, but larger than that 

 species and than any forms of indicus, and entirely differentiated 

 from any other jackal by the primitive form of its third premolar. 



Size large. Fur as in G. naria. Pattern and colouring almost 

 exactly as in that species. 



Skull large. The third premolar (i.e., the tooth immediately in 

 front of the carnassial) with a median internal rooted lobe, recalling 

 strongly the similar lobe on its predecessor, the '' milk " carnassial. 



Dimensions of the type : — Head and body, 765; tail (damaged), 

 175 (in a somewhat smaller male the tail is 236); hindfoot, 161 ; 

 ear, 75. Skull: — Greatest length. 177; condylo-basal length, 163; 

 palatilar length, 80 ; zj^gomatic breadth, 91 ; back of molar tooth 

 row to front of carnassial, 36; carnassial, 18; back of first molar 

 to front of canine, 68 ; weight 191 lbs. 



Hah. — Ceylon. Type from Mankeni. E. P. 



2Vpe.— Adult male. B. M. No. 16.4.16.21. Original number 

 506. Collected by Major E. W. Mayor on the 3rd September 1913, 

 and presented to the National Collection by the Bombay Natural 

 History Society. 



Major Mayor obtained six specimens (of which one is immature). 

 The five adult specimens all show this peculiar formation of the 

 third tipper premolar, as also does an old female skull in the 

 National Collection presented by Mr, Whyte. On the other hand 

 I have examined over 100 skulls, including a few of wolves, foxes, 

 and African jackals and have found no trace of a similar character 

 in any one of them. H. Winge, in his work, " Rovdyr (Carnivora) 

 fra Lagoa Santa; in " E Museo Lundii", 1895, p. 100, records it as 

 present in certain very primitive fossil carnivora, and it is not rarelj^ 

 present in the Viverrines, e.g., Genetta, Helogale, &c., but I can hear 

 of no case of its having been found in any of the Ganidce or even 

 among their close relatives. 



