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CARNIVOEA. 



British Museum, and Ml into the error that it had the foregoing number of teeth, 

 but an inspection of the skull conclusively proves that the supposed additional tooth 

 is only one of the exposed fangs of the penultimate molar, the crown of the tooth 

 having been worn away. This is evident, as on the left side of the lower jaw one- 

 half of the crown remains attached to the anterior fang and still shows the fracture 

 where the crown has been broken across about its middle, the posterior fang being 

 quite distinct. After I had examined the specimen, I observed a nearly similar con- 

 dition in S. Jerdonii, in which the penultimate molar of the lower jaw had lost its 

 crown on one side, the fangs remaining in their sockets and being worn and smooth, 

 while on the opposite side the tooth was intact. The Urva cancrivora, Hodgson, 

 which has the skull and dentition of Merpestes, appears to me in no way separable 

 from this genus. Its fur is long and loose, but in this it resembles S. vitticollis, and 

 its neck-streak, although white, does not in other respects differ from the neck-band 

 of the latter species ; whereas in R. semitorquatus there is a similar mark, but less 

 pronounced than in these species : but all are nearly related. 



The skeletons of Calictis smithii and Onychogale maccarthice are structurally 

 identical with each other and with Ilerpestes, as is evident from the notice I have 

 given of them under the respective species. 



Measurements of skulls of Bastet'm Asiatic Herpestes. 



' 



;i 



i 



s 

 1 



s 



4 



s 

 1 



'1 





S 



8 



a 



s 



a, 



s 

 a 

 o 

 g 



1 



c 





^ 



fti 



m 



tq 



fei 



N 



N 



N 



N 



hj 



hi 



hi 



Anterior border of foramen magnnm to tip 



























of premaxillaries 



3-65 



3-30 



... 



3-] 2 



3^25 





2-96 



3-00 



2-60 



2-58 



2-32 



2-34 



Lambdoidal ridge to tip of premaxillaries . 



4-05 



3-63 



3-41 



3^53 



3-60 



,„ 



2-80 



3-20 



^,•92 



2-47 



^•4P, 



2-50» 



Anterior border of orbit to tip of premaxil- 



























laries ....... 



1-30 



1-17 



1-03 



1^10 



1-10 



•96 



•96 



•90 



■m 



•80 



•65 



•65 



Breadth across frontal contraction 



•80 



•75 



•71 



•75 



•63 



•60 



•56 



•50 



•55 



•62 



•38 



•38 



„ at posterior root of zygoma . 



1-60 



1-48 



l-4o 



1^33 



1^30 



1^29 



1-30 



1^15 



1-08 



1^09 



•89 



•85 



„ between orbits .... 



•75 



•75 



•71 



•65 



•71 



•70 



•63 



•65 



■60 



•57 



•48 



•41 



„ greatest, across zygoma 



2-20 



2-01 



1^95 



1-83 



1-87 



1-77 



1-70 



1^67 



1^53 



1-38 



1-30 



1^30 



Length of palate, inner border of incisors . 



2-10 



1-78 



1^68 



1-87 



1-80 



1^80 



173 



1-65 



V44 



1^40 



r25 



1^22 



„ „ „ behind last molar . 



•38 



•29 



•30 



•40 



•45 



•53 



•44 



•41 



•25 



•30 



•30 



•30 



Breadth of „ 



•39 



•49 



•33 



•40 



•33 



•35 



•33 



•32 



•30 



'33 



•29 



•23 



Length of alveolar border of upper jaw 

 „ of lower jaw from symphysis to ex- 



1^84 



1-67 



1^49 



1^62 



1^49 



1-89 



1^40 



V35 



1-23 



V23 



2-05 



201 



























ternal angle of condyle 



2-70 



2^50 



2-23 



2-35 



2^36 



2-20 



210 



2-10 



1-85 



1^80 



1-60 



1-61 



*IIerpestes auropunctatus, Hodgson, Plate XI, figs. 11 & 12. 



Herpestes auropundatus, Hodgson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, No. 52, April 1836, vol. v. p. 235 ; 



Wagner, Schreb. Saugeth. Suppl. vol. ii. 1841, p. 346; Schinz, Syn. Mamm. vol. i. 1844^ 



p. 372; Cantor, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1846, vol. xv. p. 242. 

 Herpestes nipalensis, Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. New Series, vol. i. 1837, p. 578; List o£ Mamm. 



B. M. 1843, p. 52; Cat. Hodgs. Coll. Mamm. &c. Nepal, 1846, p. 9; Voy. Samarang, Zool. 



