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the skin in the collection sent by Dr. Xelaart : one is larger and 

 rather broader than the other two, which are younger. In two of 

 them the flesh-teeth are nearly similar, with a moderate-sized in- 

 ternal lobe, and the first and hinder npper tubercular grinders are 

 much larger in one of these than in the other. In the third skull, 

 which is the larger, the internal lobe of the flesh-tooth is much 

 longer, compared with the size of the outer portion, than in the pre- 

 ceding skulls; and the first tubercular grinder is much larger, 

 longer, and more massive compared with its width than in either 

 of the preceding; in this skull the hinder tubercular is not yet 

 developed. 



Is it that these skulls belong to, and are characteristic of, the two 

 animals which we have thus wrongly called varieties ? or does the 

 difference merely arise from their being of two sexes? Genera 

 have been formed on less differences in the Carnivora. 



3. Faradorurns hermaphroditos. B.M. 



Fur long, rigid, harsh, blackish more or less varied with the pale 

 colours of the lower part of the hairs, scarcely showing three indi- 

 stinct black streaks on the back ; under-fur thick, soft, and very 

 pale reddish ; the feet and end of the tail black ; spot imder the eye 

 and the forehead paler, more or less grey or whitish. 



Viverra hermaphrodita, Pallas, Schreb. Sdugeth. p. 426. 

 Paradoxurus hermaphrodita, Oray, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 69; 1864, 



p. 532. 

 Platyschista Pallasii, Otto, iV. Act. Leap. xvii. p. 1089, t. 71, 72. 

 Viverra nigra, Desm. Mamm. p. 208 (from Buffon, Suppl. iii. t. 47). 

 La Marte des Palmiers, ou le Pougomie, F. Cuv. Mamm. lAthogr. 

 Paradoxurus typus, F. Cuv.Mamm. lAthogr.; Temm. Monogr. ii. p. 215. 

 Genette de France, Buffon, H. N. vii. p. 58 ; Sujypl. iii. t. 47. 

 Musk or Musky Weasel, Perm. Quadr. 



Hah. Continental India, in the plains: Bengal {Temm.'); Madras 

 (Jerdon). 



This species differs from the preceding in being small and much 

 blacker. Only one of the wild specimens in the Museum, in a good 

 state of fur, shows any indication of the three black dorsal streaks; 

 but the fur can easily be placed so as to make three more or less 

 interrupted ones apparent : and some of the specimens, which have 

 the tips of the longer hairs wo;-n ofi', have a somewhat striped 

 appearance on the back ; but this evidently depends only on the 

 bad state of the specimens from their having been kept in confine- 

 ment. 



The skull is very like that of P. eeylamevs ; the teeth are rather 

 larger, the nose rather narrower in front ; the flesh-tooth is rather 

 broad and thick ; the front tubercular grinder is transverse, nar- 

 rower on the inner side, and contracted in front and behind in the 

 middle; the hinder tubercular is very small and circular; the palate- 

 edge is arched behind. The skull is very old, and the orbit is rather 

 more defined behind than usual. 



The Viverra hermaphrodita of Pallas is thus described : — " Ashy- 



