166 PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ZLUROIDEA. [Feb. 7, 
‘Voyage de la Bonite,’ p. 28, pl. v., which is a good coloured repre- 
sentation of the animal, with outline of skull and teeth, which are 
also figured (under the name Paradorurus derbyanus) on pls. vil. and 
xii. of De Blainville’s ‘Ostéographie’ (Viverra). It is an inhabi- 
tant of Malacca and Borneo. It differs strikingly from most other 
Viverride by its system of coloration, as it has transverse stripes 
instead of longitudinal markings and spots. It is in this respect 
only approached by the Linsangs. 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 form a considerable naked space (pointed upwards) on the 
metatarsus, while the tarsus is almost, if not quite, entirely hairy. 
No hairy interval divides the proximal and distal portions of the 
palmar pad. The claws are strongly arched (cf. fig. 14 D, p. 192. 
