74 TIVEERIDiE. 



together at the crease of the nebk, and when brushed towards the 

 middle of the back, give the appearance of a dark band or streak j 

 but there is no real band or streak in this species. 



Skull swollen. Palse grinders moderate, rather compressed, coni- 

 cal, blunt, without any internal process ; the flesh-tooth triangular, 

 rather longer on the outer edge than the width of the front edge ; 

 the internal tubercles triangular, rather behind the front edge, inner 

 side rather angular ; tubercular grinders oblong, transverse, about 

 as wide as the length of the outer edge, inner side narrower and 

 rounded ; hinder tubercular very small, circular. Length of skull 

 4" 6 J'", of nose 1" 5|"' ; width of brain -case 1" 6'", of zygoma 

 2" 6'". This skull is much more ventricose, and the head is much 

 shorter and broader, than in P. hondar. 



Paradoxurus leueopus, Ogilby, Zool. Journ. iv. p. 303, t. 35, 1829, 

 Temm. Esq. Zool. 120, " band round the loins, the feet, and the tip 

 of the tail pure white," is probably, from the description, an accidental 

 variety of the P. Orayi. The specimen does not appear to have been 

 preserved. 



I believe the specimen which I described in 1837, under the name 

 of P. Jourdanii, ' Mag. of Nat. Hist.' i. p. 579, from a specimen which 

 M. Jourdan purchased in London for the Lyons Museum, is the same 

 as the one here deqribed. 



The only character that M. Jourdan gives for Amhhjodon is the 

 following : — " Cette k laquelle il a donne le nom d'Amblyodon dore 

 ■ est celle qui offre la disposition dentaire la plus omnivore, ceUe qui, 

 par consequent, rappelle le mieux ce qui a lieu dans les Basores, 

 chez lesquels les deux bords dentaires sent presque egaux en hau- 

 teur et en ^paisseur, egalement tuberculeux, et ont les deux arri^re- 

 molaires approchant le plus d'etre egales et semblables dans leurs 

 cotes interne et exteme. HAmhlyodon a un pelage fort grossier, 

 rude, assez long et presque unicolore, seulement plus fonce en dessus, 

 autour des yeux, avec les extremites noires en dessus, comme la 

 Mmtela:'—Ann. Sd. Nat. viii. p. 276, 1837. 



This character suits more than one Indian species ; but fortu- 

 nately M. de BlainviUe, in his valuable ' Osteographie,' has figured 

 a skull under the name of Paradoxurus auratus, which is probably 

 the one named by M. Jourdan, and certainly is the same as the 

 Paradoxurus Qrayi of Mr. Bennett. It may be observed that M. 

 Jourdan was in England shortly after I had described the species in 

 the ' Magazine of Natural History' : he saw my specimens, and even 

 referred to my paper in his ' Memoire' (p. 275) ; but he redescribed 

 my Paradoocurus derhianus as Hemigale zebre, and P. Jourdanii as 

 Amhlyodon dore, without reference to their synonyms, though the 

 latter is from the same specimen, I believe, as I described mth his 

 permission. 



See Paradoxurus laniger, Hodgson, MS. (Paquma laniqer. Gray, 

 Cat. Mamm. B. M. p. 55 ; P. Z. S. 1864, p. 542). 



P. larvatus, var., Temm. Esq. Zool. p. 120(!) ; Monogr. ii. 

 Hah. Nepal {Hodgson). 



