2. VIVEKEICITLA. 47 



Hah. Asia : Bengal (EorsfieU) ; India (EardwicJc) ; Calcutta 

 (Oldham) ; Nepal {Hodgson) ; China {J. Reeve) ; Formosa (Swinhoe) ; 

 ? Isle of Negros {Cuming) (skull B.M.) ; ? Malay peninsula {Hors- 

 field). 



Skull elongate, narrow. Nose compressed. Orbit incomplete 

 behind. Teeth very like Oenetta ; upper hinder tubercular small, 

 oblong, transverse, with two outer and one large inner tubercle. 

 Lower jaw shelving in front ; lower edge rather arched, without any 

 tubercles below the end of "the tooth-liae ; the tubercular grinders 

 subcireular, with three lobes on the crown. 



3. Viverra tangalunga. B.M. 



Tail black above, and ringed on the lower side. 



Viverra tangalunga, Gray,P.Z.S. 1832, p. 63; 1864, p. 512; Cat. 



Mamm. B. M. p. 48 ; Cantor, Mamm. ; Horsjield, Cat. Mus. India 



Souse, p. 57. 

 Viverra zibetha, Baffies, Linn. Trans, xiii. p. 231 ; F. Cuvier, Mamm. 



Lithog. t. 



Hah. Sumatra (called " Tangalung ") (Baffles) ; Borneo, Celebes, 

 Amboyna (Muller); Malayan peninsula (Cantor). 



What is Viverra megaspila, Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1862, 

 p. 321 ? 



2. VIVERRICULA. 



Head tapering. Throat with lunate dark bands. Body elongate ; 

 back not crested. Legs moderate, equal. Tail almost as long as 

 the body, tapering, dark-ringed. Toes 5/5; claws acute, com- 

 pressed. Pupil oblong, vertical. Teeth 40 ; false grinders f . |- ; 

 flesh-tooth longer than broad in front, inner lobe on the front mar- 

 gin ; tubercular grinders f . f . 



Viverricula, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. x. p. 909 ; Oi-ay, 

 P. Z. S. 1864, p. 513. 



Hah. Asia. 



Like a Genet, but with hairy soles to the feet, a shorter tail, and 

 no crest. Foot with a small bald spot on the side of the palm-pad 

 (see Hodgson, J. A. S. B. t. 31. f. 8). 



ViTerricula malaccensis. (Malacca Weasel.) B.M. 



Grey ; back vpith seven black or dark streaks more or less broken 

 up into spots : shoulders, sides, and legs spotted ; feet deep brown 

 and black ; tail with seven or eight black rings. 



Viverricula malaccensis, Cantor, Cat. Mamm. Malay, p. 29 ; Gray, 



P. Z. S. 1864, p. 513. 

 Viverra malaccensis, Omelin, 8. iV. p. 92 (from Sonn.) ; Gray, Cat. 



Mamm. B. iff. p. 48 ; Gerrard, Cat. Ost. B. M. p. 70. 

 Viverra gunda, Hamilton Buchanan, Icon. 

 Viverra rasse, Hwsf. Zool. Java, t. ; P. Z. S. ii. (1832) p. 23 ; Schinz, 



Syn. Mamm. i. p. 362. 



