12. PAGTJMA, 73 



the animal in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society,' which he 

 quotes, and I have never yet seen the P. larvata alive in this country., 



2. Paguma leucomystax. B.M., type. 



Black-brown, with elongated black shining hairs; orbits dark 

 brown ; face pale, without any orbital spots, a large spot at the 

 lower angle of the ear ; tip of the taU black (rarely white) ; whiskers 

 rigid, white ; ears large and rounded, not bearded. 



Paguma leucomystax, Gray, Cat. Mam. B. M. p. 55 ; P. Z. S. 1864, 



p. 540. 

 Paradoxurus leucomystax, Gray, Laud. Mag. N. H. 1837; Teinm. 



Mmogr. ii. p. 325, t. 64. f. 4-6 (skuU). 



Var. 1. Tip of taU white ; white on face more extended. 



Paradoxurus O^lbii, Fraser, Zool. Typica, t. \ Temm. Esq. Zool. p. 120. 

 Paradoxurus leucocephalus, Ch-ay, Voy. Samarang. (B.M.) 

 Paradoxurus phiUppensis (partly), Schim, Syn. p. 387. 



Var. 2. Albino. 



Mab. Sumatra and Borneo (Mus. Leyden). 



The lower and longest whiskers are white, and the upper ones 

 (which are placed just above them) are black and more slender. 



The half-grown specimen, which I described as Paradoxurus leueo- 

 cephalus, appears, on recomparison with the series of specimens, to be 

 only a specimen with more white on the head than usual. The fur 

 is in a bad state, the animal having been kept in confinement. The 

 tip of the tail is white, as in the P. Ogilbii of Eraser, which agrees 

 with it in the whiteness of the head. 



** SkvU rather longer ; brain-case slightly constricted in front; nose 

 rather elongate, narrower ; teeth small. Amblyodon. 



3. Paguma Grayi, B.M. 



Fur long and rigid, rather woolly, iron-grey, beneath paler ; base 

 of ears and sides of nose browner ; tail elongate, flat at the base. 



Paguma Grayi, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. p. 64 ; P. Z. S. 1864, p. 541 ; 



Cat. Hodgson Coll. p. 9. 

 Paradoxurus Grayi, Bennett, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 18 (!). 

 Paradoxurus larvatus, var., Temm. Esq. Zool. p. 120 (!) 

 Paradoxurus bondar, Temm. Monog. ii. p. 332, t. 55. f. 1-4 (skull, not 



syn.) (!). 

 ? Paradoxvirus leucopus, Ogilhy, Zool. Journ. iv. p. 303 (? var.). 

 Paradoxurus nipalensis, Hodgson, Asiatic Besearch. Bengal, xix. p. 76, 



1836 (!). 

 Amblyodon dor4, Jourdan, Ann. Sci. Nat. viii. p. 276, 1837 (!). 

 Paradoxurus auratus, De Blainville, OstSogr. ( Viverra), t. 12 (teeth). 

 Paradoxurus Jourdanii, Cfray, Loud. Mag. N. H. i. p. 579, 1837 (from 



Mus. Lyons'). 



Hob. India: Nepal. 



The spot on the side of the face, under the eye, is sometimes very 

 indistinct. The blackish ends of the hairs of the back, when crowded 



