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Paradoxurus typus, var. sumatranus, Fischer, Syn. Mamm. p. 159. 

 Paradoxurus setosus, Somb. Sf Jacq. Voy. de VAstr. Zool. iii. p. 25, t. 

 Paradoxurus fasciatus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 536. 



Var. 1. Forehead more white. 



? Paradoxurus Pallasii, Gray, P. Z. & 1832, p. 67; lUust. Ind 



Zool. t. 

 P Paradoxurus alhifrons, Bennett, in Zool. Gardens List (not of Cuvier). 



Var. 2. Tip of tail white. 



Hob. Malacca, Java, Sumatra, Borneo {Horsfield). 



The size of the spots on the face and the extent and pureness of 

 the white on the forehead vary ; but the animal always has a dis- 

 tinct brown or black mark on the back of the cheeks, most distinctly- 

 defined on the lower part of the face. The species has been divided 

 into several on account of these differences. A specimen from 

 Borneo in the Museum is so black that the spots are scarcely to be 

 distinguished ; but there are specimens in the collection that are 

 intermediate between it and those which have the common colour 

 of the species. 



The skull is like that of P. nigrifrons ; the teeth are much more 

 thick and massive, the flesh- tooth broader and with a much larger 

 internal lobe ; the first tubercular is more square, nearly as wide on 

 the inner as on the outer side : the hinder tubercular is small, sub- 

 circular; the palate has an angular notch behind; the zygomatic 

 arch is also a little wider. 



Length of the skull 4", of the nose 1" 4'", of palate 1" 10^'" ; 

 width at tubercular grinder 1" 6'", at zygoma 2" 3'", of brain-case 

 1" 5'". 



Paradoxurus quinqaelineatus and Paradoxurus musangoides, Gray, 

 Loudon's Mag. N. H. i. p. 579, 1837, are perhaps only varieties of 

 the young animal of this species. 



Viverra fasciata, Desm. Mamm. p. 209 (not of Gmelin), described 

 as pale yellow, with longitudinal series of brown spots, end of the 

 nose and frontal cross band white, is also probably the same. It 

 cannot be Viverricvla madagascariensis, aa the forehead is not par- 

 ticularly white. This is perhaps the Platyschista ? which Otto 



notices in ' Nova Acta Acad. Leop. -Carol.' xvii. p. 1102. — Hah. Java? 

 {Mus. Paris.). 



7. Paradoxurus dubius. B.M., type. 



Pale yellowish ashy brown, with three indistinct, rather inter- 

 rupted, darker bands and some indistinct darker spots on the sides ; 

 head, ears, and feet chestnut ; forehead with an indistinct whitish 

 band ; spot on side of nose and under eyes white. 



Paradoxurus dubius, Gray, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 66; 1864, p. 537. 



Hab. Java (Brit. Mus.). 



The skull is in the skin ; so I have not been able to examine it. 



This species may be only a very pale variety of P. fnseiatus. 



