186 CAHNIVOEA. 



Samarang, Zool. (1850), p. 1 5 ; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1864, p. 554, et Cat. Carniv. Mamm. 



1869, p. 152; Horsfield, Cat. Mamm. E. Ind. Co.'s Mus. 1852, p. 88; Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. 



Beng. vol. xx. (1852), p. 319. 

 Ichneumon javanicus, F. Cuv. Hist. Nat. des. Mamm. T. ii. Feb. 1821, livr. xxv^ plate. 

 Mangusta jav aniens, Horsfield, Zool. Researcti. in Java, 1822 (plate) ; Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 1829. 

 Mangusta fuhm, Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 1829, p. 165. 

 i?e?ye«i!e«m^M, Gervais, Zool. deBonite, 1841, pp. 32-33, pi. iii. figs. 7-9; Schinz, Syn. Mamm. 



1844, vol. i. p. 375; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 555 ; Cat. Carniv. Mamm. B. M, 1869, 



p. 153. 

 Herpestes rntilus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861, p. 136. 

 Cahgale rutila, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 561 ; Cat. Carniv. Mamm. 1869, p. 159. 



This is a large species having the punctulated hair of E. cmropunctatm, like 

 which the pelage is adpressed and short compared with S. 2MUidus, but much more 

 dense. The tail is about half the length of the body and longer than in S. 

 hrachyurus, to which the species in its size and form is closely allied. 



The general colour is rather rufous oliye-brown, dark on the back, and stiU 

 darker and more rufous on the upper surface of the head and on the cheeks, on 

 which regions the annulation of the hair is much finer than on the body. The body 

 is very uniformly punctulated, but the lower halves of the limbs are altogether dark- 

 brown. The under surface of the neck from the chin and also the chest are rufous- 

 yellow without annulation, but the belly is punctulated like the sides, the hair, how- 

 ever, being much more sparse. The ears are clothed with fine rufous- brown hairs. 

 The fiu" is not much longer on the hind quarters than it is on the body generally, 

 and on the base of the tail it is not much longer than at its tip. On the flanks 

 the hair is 1-25 inch, the base of the tail 1-70, and near its tip 1"60 inch in length. 

 The underlying pile is sparse, and dark-brown at its base, and bright, rather golden- 

 rusty at its tip, and it is less wooUy than in the other species. The long hairs on 

 the body have broad, brown tips, the succeeding brownish-yeUow band being about 

 half the width of the former, and it is generally followed in the longer hairs by 

 three brown bands, one of which is basal, each of these rings being separated from 

 its feUow by a yeUow band, half the breadth of the brown rings. In the shorter 

 hairs, the brown bands are reduced to three. The dark colour of the animal is due 

 to the greater breadth of the brown as compared with the yeUow bands, and to 

 the subdued colour of the latter. On the tail, there may be either four or five 

 brown bands on each hair, but in the former case the apical band is very feeble and 

 extremely narrow ; the usual number, however, is four of either colour, the basal 

 band being yellow. In aU, the apical yellow band is but little distinguished from the 

 brown band before it, and the others are but half the breadth of the brown bands. 

 The annulation is uniform to the tips of the individual hairs, but it is not so generally 

 marked as on the body. The claws are of moderate strength and proportionate to 

 the size of the animal. The central line of the tarsus is nude nearly to the heel. 



Inches. 



Length from tip of muzzle to vent . . . . . . .20"00 



„ of tail without hair ••...... 9-50 



„ „ with hair 10-75 



