PRIONODON. 239 



India, Ceylon (Kelaart), Assam, Burma, Upper and Lower, 

 Malay Peninsula (Cantor), Java (Horsfield), South China, Hainan 

 and Formosa (Swinhoe). 



In India this form seems to be found everywhere except perhaps 

 in the Punjab and Sind ; it is recorded from Sambhar Lake, Raj- 

 pootana (Thomas), from the Terai of Kumaon (Atkinson), and 

 Nepal (Hodgson), Central India, Bengal, Assam, the Deccan 

 (Sykes), and Southern Mahratta country (Elliot). 



a. Skin, skull Assam ]. Anderson 1872. 



b. Skin, skull Assam J. Anderson 1872. 



c. Skin Cachar Museum Collector. 



d. Skin Naga Hills, Assam A. W. Chennell, 1877. 



e. Skin $ Bhamo, 600 ft. J. Anderson 1868. 



f. Skin Goona, C. India A, Barclay. 



g. Skin, skull $ Calcutta Purchased, 1870. 

 h. Skin Calcutta Purchased 



j. Skin North Africa? British Museum [Ex.] 



i. Skin juv. No history, A.S.B. 



/. Skin juv. No history, A.S.B. 



»j. Skull No history, A.S.B. 



«. Skull No history, A.S.B. 



0. Skull S Purchased. 



^-TJ. 7 Stuffed on one No history, A.S.B. 



stand. 



No history, A.S.B. 



a;. Skeleton No history, A.S.B. 



X. Skull Goona, C. I. A. Barclay. 



y. Skin, skull Chumbi, Thibet ? Schneider [P.] 



z. Skin Ceylon Colombo Museum. 



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Genus PRIONODON, 



Prionodon, Horsfield Zool. Res. (1824). Type, P. gracilis. 

 Linsang, Miiller Over de Zoogdieren in Tern. Verhdndl., p. 28 (1839). Type, 

 P. gracilis. 



Key of the Indian Species, 



a. Large, about 35 inches, including the tail; dorsal surface 

 covered with large patches of black. 



P. maculosus, p. 239. 

 c^. Smaller, about 30 inches, including the tail ; back with broad 

 transverse bands. 



P. pardicolor, p. 240. 



Prionodon maculosus. 



Prionodon maculosus, Blanford f. A. S, B., xlvii, p. 152, pis. vi, vii (1878) ' 

 Thomas P. Z. S., 1886, p. 66; Blanford Mammals, p. 104. 



Distribution. — Known only from Tenasserim. 

 [No specimen in the Museum.] 



