VIVERRA MUSANGA, 



VAR. JAVANICA. 



Ord. III"?" Carnassiers, Cuvier. 3"?' Famille les Carnivores. Si'i" Tribu, 



Digitigrades. 

 Ord. III. FERiE, Linn. Syst. 

 Ord. XII. Falculata, Illiger. Fam. 35, Sanguinaria. 



VIVERRA, Linn. Erxleb. Schreb. Cuv. Geoff. Illig. 



Charac. Gen. — Dentium formula, Primores 4, Canini J^, Molares e^ seu |^. 



Primores utrinque 6 intermedii breviores. Molares utrinque 5 aut 6 : supra 



quartus maximus, interius gradu lateral! antice auctus; quintus et sextus tritores. 



Infra quintus, seu quartus primo deficiente, sectorius maximus ; sextus tritorius 



magnus. 

 Caput elongatum, rhinario prominulo. Lingua retrorsum aculeata. 

 Corpus codario et pilis longioribus vestitum. Folliculus inter genitalia et anum. 

 Pedes pentadactyli fissi. Ungues : falculae semiretractUes. 

 Sect. II. Genettae II* sous-genre les Genettes. 

 FoUicules reduced to a simple excavation. 



Viverra corpore nigro et cinereo variegato, dorso obsolete striato, capite pedibus 

 caudaque nigris, fascia frontali per aures ad latera coUi oblique producta rhina- 

 riique basi albentibus. 



Luwak, of the Javanese. 



Musang-hula^i, of the Malays. 



Viverra Musanga, Sir T. S. Raffles' s Cat. of a Zool. Coll. made in Sumatra. Tr. Linn 



Soc. XIII. p. 253. 

 Musang, Marsden's Hist, of Sumatra, p. 118. 



The Viverra Musanga so nearly resembles the Viverra Genetta in size, colour, 

 and distribution of marks, that it has by several authors been described under that 

 name. It constitutes, however, a distinct species, which is itself subject to several 

 varieties. Its appearance in Java is here represented from an adult subject in a very 

 perfect state, and of a full size. Its dimensions are as follow : 



