5. LINSANQ. 53 



a broad black streak continued along the sides of the body, con- 

 fluent with the bands of the back ; back of neck with five parallel 

 black streaks. Tail with seven black and white streaks ; a second 

 streak, broken into spots, from the side of the neck to the haunches. 

 Legs with small black spots. 



Linsang gracilis, Muller, Zuog. ind. Arch. i. p. 28, t. 



ViveiTa? linsang, Hardw. lAnn. Trans, xiii. p. 256, t. 24; DeBlainv. 



OstSogr. t. 12 (teeth). 

 Felis (Prionodon) gracilis, Horsf. Zool. Java, t. 

 Viverra Hardwickii, Lesson, Man. p. 172 (not Oray). 

 Viverra genetta, Deschamps, MS. B. M. 

 Paradoxurus prehensilis, Schinz, Cuv. Thierr. iv. p. 349. 

 Viverra gracilis, Desm. Mamm. p. 539. 

 Paradoxurus linsang, Fischer, Syn. Mamm. -a. 159, 1829. 

 Prionodon gracilis. Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 519. 



Sab. Asia: Malacca?, Siam?, Sumatra?, Java? (Horsfield). 



2. Linsang pardicolor, (Nepal Linsang.) B.M. 



Pale whitish grey ; back of neck and shoulders with three streaks 

 diverging from the vertebral line ; back with two series of large 

 square spots ; the shoulders, sides, and legs with round black spots ; 

 an elongated spot on the middle of the front part of the back, between 

 the square spots on the sides of the body. 



Prionodon pardicolor, Hodgson, Calcutta Joum^ N. H. ii. p. 37, t. 1. 



f. 3 & 6, 1841 ; Oray, *P. Z. S. 1864, p. 619. 

 Linsang pardicolor, Oray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. p. 49. 

 Viverra perdicator, Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. p. 366 (misprint). 



Hah. Nepal. 



The skuU elongate ; nose rather short, compressed ; brain-oase 

 narrow in front, swollen over the ears, and contracted and produced 

 behind. Orbits not defined behind, confluent with the temporal 

 cavity ; zygomatic arch slender. Palate contracted behind. Teeth 

 38 ; upper false grinders compressed ; flesh-tooth narrow, much 

 longer than wide in front, the outer edge three-lobed, inner tubercle 

 on the front edge ; tubercular grinders transversely trigonal, much 

 wider than long, the outer edge sloped, and the hinder lobes in 

 the middle of the hinder edge. There is no hinder tubercular; 

 but the one present is quite like the front tubercular in the typical 

 ViverridsB. 



The skulls oiL. gracilis and L. pardicolor are very similar; but 

 the skull is rather larger, the palate narrower in front and behind, 

 and the bullse of the ears are narrower and less ventricose in L. 

 gracilis than in L. pardicolor. 



The following are the measurements in inches and twelfths in L. 

 gracilis: — ^length of skuU 1" 7'", width at brain-case 11'", width of 

 zygomatic arch 1" 3g"', length of nose 9'". L. pardicolor : — length 

 of skull 2" 6'", width of brain-case 10^'", width of zygomatic arch 

 1" 2i"', length of nose 8i"'. 



