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if so. his name will claim preference. 

 The remaining 4 or 5 yet unpublished are 

 forthcoming shortly. The Catalogue is 

 considerably enlarged and corrected since 

 it was last published in Lin. Trans, a. d. 

 1838. 



Species, of which 65 to 70 are new. 

 Their descriptions will be found, with 4 

 or 5 exceptions only, in the Journal of 

 the Bengal Asiatic Society, and that of 

 Mr. M'Clelland. 

 Talpa Micrurus. Short-tailed Mole, 

 velvetty black, with a silvery gloss 

 when rubbed against the grain, and 

 iridescent when wet. Naked snout, 

 and feet, and tail, fleshy white. 

 The tail very small, rudimentary : 

 rest of the structure typical — di- 

 mensions as already given. 

 Valley of Nepal, March 1841. B. H. Hodgson. 



On a new Species of Mustela ? known to the Nipalese com- 

 merce as the Chudkhdl Mustela ? Calotus, nob. (koXoc 

 et ovq) By B. H. Hodgson, Esq. Plate IX. 



Cloaks lined with furs of various kinds are largely import- 

 ed from the north by the Nipalese merchants, and amongst 

 the less expensive sorts of these furs, so employed, that 

 called Chuakhal is perhaps the best and handsomest. I 

 have frequently endeavoured to procure all or any of the 

 animals, whose skins are thus employed in commerce and 

 in dress, and lately through the kindness of the minister of 

 this place, have obtained a very beautifully cured specimen 

 of the animal called Chudkhdl, which, however, alas ! is 

 stripped of every vestige of bone and of talons or nails. 

 Still the size and figure of the animal may be satisfactorily 

 judged of; and as I am assured by the merchants that it is 



