13. AECTOeALE. 75 



This species is only known from a skin without any skull, and in 

 a very bad state. 



13. ARCTOGALE. 



Head conical. Nose compressed, flat, and with a central groove 

 beneath. Whiskers slender, very long, brown. Ears rounded, 

 covered with short hair. Toes 5/5 ; claws short, retractile. Soles 

 of hind feet broad, bald nearly to the heel. Tail elongate, slender, 

 subcylindrical. The frenum covered with hair. Teeth 40. 



Arctogale, Peters, Handb. fiir Zool. p. 98 (ined.) ; Gray, P. Z. 8. 1864, 

 p. 642. 



Skull elongate. Nose produced. Brain-case rather wide, but con- 

 stricted and subcylindrical in front. Forehead broad, angular be- 

 hind, and extending beyond the back edge of the orbits. The orbits 

 nearly complete behind, there being an elongated slender process 

 from the side of the forehead, and a well-marked angle on the upper 

 edge of the zygomatic arch. Hinder part of the palate very narrow, 

 with a deep notch on each side in front, on a level with the hinder 

 tubercular ; front of palate as wide as two-thirds its length, Teeth 

 small ; the flesh-tooth triangular, with a long, narrow internal lobe ; 

 tubercular grinders oblong, the first nearly as long as broad. 



" I have formed this into a genus, on account of the smallness 

 of the teeth and the protraction of the palate." — Peters's Letter, Nov. 

 11,'^1864. I had already distinguished the genus, but gladly adopt 

 Dr. Peters's unpublished name to prevent the useless increase of 

 generic names. 



Arctogale trivirgata. B.M. 



Blackish brown, slightly silvered with the pale tips to the hairs ; 

 back with three narrow black streaks ; throat, chest, and undersides 

 dirty white ; the head and tail black ; feet blackish brown. 



Paguma trivirgata, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. p. 55 ; Temm. Manogr. 



ii. p. 336, t. 53. f. 1 (skeleton). 

 Viverra trivirgata, Hdnhardt, in Mug. Leyden. 

 Paradoxurus farivirgatus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 67 ; Temm. Esq. Zool. 



p. 120. 

 Paradoxurus Isevidens, fide ParzuddkVs MS. 

 Arctogale trivirgata, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 543. 



Hab. Java and Sumatra (Temm.) ; Malacca {Firdayson) ; Tenas- 

 serim (Blyth). 



The black streak varies in distinctness and length in the diiferent 

 specimens, being sometimes very black and extending from the back 

 of the head to the base of the tail, in others only distinctly visible 

 in the middle of the back. The head and end of the tail are always 

 blacker, and the throat whitish. There is no white spot under or 

 above the eye ; so that it cannot be Viverra Jiermaphrodita of 

 Pallas, which is described as having three dorsal streaks ; and I 

 cannot observe any baldness of the frenum in the stuffed specimens. 

 The tail in some lights looks as if it were very obscurely marked 



