bo VITEBaiDiE. 



black hairs, grey at the base, black at the tip ; beneath pale, a white 

 spot under the eye ; ears, throat, and feet black ; nose, whiskers, 

 and back with three black streaks ; taU longer than the body, black 

 at the tip ; claws yellow." Most probably this species is also the 

 Platyschista Pallasii of Otto ; but his figure makes the stripes on 

 the back more distinct than they are usually seen, and the sides of 

 the body too spotted ; but it is easy to make a specimen look like 

 the figure. 



The figure of the teeth of P. typus, in De Blainville's ' Osteogra- 

 phie,' better represents the teeth of our P. zeylanicus than of P. 

 typm. Perhaps it is not from the skeleton figured on plate 2, which 

 is said to be the animal described by F. Cuvier. The chief differ- 

 ence between the skulls of the two species is, that the internal lobe 

 of the flesh-tooth in P. zeylaniMS is in a straight line with the front 

 edge of the tooth, whereas in P. typus it is rather in front of the 

 outer part of the front edge of the tooth. 



The skeleton of the animal first described by F. Cuvier as Para- 

 doxurus typus is engraved by De BlainvUle, Osteogr. t. 2. 



4. Paradoxurus Crossii. B.M. 



Fur short and close, erect, pale iron-grey without any spots or 

 stripes, spot on side of nose, under orbit, forehead, and base of ears 

 whitish ; nose dark brown ; feet and ends of the taU black. 



Paradoxm-us Crossii, Oray, Proa. Zool. Soc. ii. p. 67, 1832 ; lUust. Ind. 



■Zool. ii. t. 7j P. Z. S. 1864, p. 533. 

 Paradoxurus musanga, var., Temm. Esq. Zool. p. 120. 

 Paguma Crossii, Cfray, Cat. Manvm. B. M. p. 64. 



Hah. India {Brit. Mus.). 



Described from an adult specimen thq,t was confined in the Surrey 

 Zoological Gardens. It is very like P. Qrayii ; but the fur is short, 

 thick, and very close, and the colouring of the face is rather dififerent. 

 The nose is brown in the centre, with the brown colour extending 

 under the eyes ; the spot under the eye is small and indistinct. 



The skulls of the type specimens of P. Crossii and P. nigrifrons in 

 the British Museum are very much alike in general shape, in the 

 breadth of the palate compared with the length, and in the form of 

 the grinders, including the flesh-tooth. Considering the variations 

 which individuals of the same species present, if we had had only 

 the skulls, not knowing the characters of the fur and the colours of 

 the two species, we might have considered them to be varieties of 

 the same species. But knowing that they are the skulls of two 

 very distinct species, one can perceive that the nasal bones are much 

 longer, and the condyles of the skull larger and more oblique, in 

 P. Crossii than the same parts in the skull of P. nigrifrons. The 

 bulla. of the ears is differently shaped, ending below in small acutely 

 keeled prominences in P. Crossii, while in P. nigrifrons the whole 

 outer hinder edge is strongly keeled. P. Crossii is rather narrower 

 at the zygoma. These difierences might "he peculiar to the indi- 

 vidual in each case; and T should not have considered them of 



