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Nepal, Asam, Sylhet, Arakan, Siarn, Southern China, and was ob- 

 tained by the late Dr. Cantor in the Malayan peninsula, being noted 

 by him from Pinang and Singapore. A second race, V. civettina, 

 nobis, inhabiting Southern Malabar, quite resembles V. civetta, 

 except in the particular of the mane. A third race, V. megaspila, 

 nobis, has been confounded with V. tanggaeitnga, Gray, but is as large 

 as the preceding, and has the spots fewer and much larger, and entire 

 for the most part (or shewing little tendency to group into ocelli) ; 

 and on the sides they tend less to unite into vertical bands or stripes 

 than in V. civetta and V. civettina. Such are the specimens from 

 Prome ; and I think that the late Dr. Cantor possessed a similar 

 one from Pinang (which he referred to V. tanggabttnga) ; while a 

 third (stated to be Sumatran,) was assigned to V. zibetha in Water- 

 house's Catalogue of the Zoological Society's late museum.* V. tang- 

 gab itnga, Gray, is always smaller (so far as I have seen), with much 

 smaller and more numerous spots grouping more or less into ocelli ; 

 a comparatively broad black dorsal stripe, and tail somewhat peculiar 

 in its marking. This race inhabits the Malayan peninsula, Sumatra, 

 Borneo, Celebes, Amboyna, and the Philippines (from which last 

 locality I have seen examples) . All are very closely akin ; but as races 

 are easily enough distinguishable, and they do not appear to grade 

 into each other ; being about equivalent to those of Maetes ebavi- 

 gtjla noticed in J. A, S. XXVI, 316.f 



Helictis orientaeis, Horsfield. Skin from Prome; and skeleton 

 and stuffed skin of examples procured at Rangoon, in which locality 

 1 have observed the species wild. J Referring to the figure of H. 

 orientaeis, (Horsf.), in the Zool. Res. in Java, I cannot perceive in 

 what respect the H. nipabensis differs ; nor can I learn in what the 

 H. moschata, Gray, of China, also differs. H. orientaeis, (Horsf.), 

 would seen to be the animal with somewhat abraded fur. The 

 Society's museum contains fine examples from Sylhet and Arakan. 



Scittrtts bicoeor, Sparrman ; So. eerrugeneus, F. Cuv. (Keran- 

 dreniijljesson); and Sc. Phayrei, nobis. The second belongs to Arakan 



* Vide J. A. S. XVII, 1842, p. 344. 



t Maries OioatMnsii, C. H. Smith, from Masuri, would seem to be merely M. 

 flavigula. in summer vesture (vide P. Z. S. 1858, p. 516) ; but the Nilgiri race 

 is, I believe, permanently black on all the upper parts. I find Maetes FLAVIGULA 

 cited from the valley of the Amur. 



X Syn. Melogale personala, Is. Geoff., Belangcr's Voy. ; procured near Ran- 

 goon. 



