5. GTMNOPUS. 



97 



the body and head, tapering, and of the same colour to the tip. 

 Length of body' and head 10, tail 4 inches; the soles of the hind 

 feet bald, pads well developed, exposed. 



Mustela rPutorius) kathiah, Sodgson, J. A. S. B. iv. p. 702, 1835. 

 MuBtela (Kathiah) auriventer, Sodgson, J. A. S. B. x. p. 909. 

 Gymnopus kathiah, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 119. 

 Hah. India, Ifepal. 



G-. leucoceplialnB. 



G-. hatliiah. 



length of skull 



palate , 



tooth-line 



zygoma and orbit 



Width over ears 



in front of orbit 



Length of lower jaw 



in. lin. 



2 5 



1 



9i 

 1 

 



7 

 4 



lOj 

 9i 

 7 

 94 



10 

 54 

 Ui 



3. Gymnopus strigidorsus. £.M. 



Fur dark chestnut-brown, with a very narrow streak of a few 

 longer yellow hairs down the centre of the back ; edge of upper lip, 

 the chin, throat, chest, and a narrow streak down the centre of the 

 belly (wider hindwards) yellow, becoming whiter in the older speci- 

 mens ; tail slender, about haK the length of the body, dark brown. 



Mustela strigidorsa, Hodgson, P. Z. 8. 1866, p. 398. 



Mustela stngodorsa, Hodgsm, MS. ; Gray, P. Z. 8. 1853, p. 181, 



t. 491. 

 Gymnopus strigidorsus, Gray, P. Z. 8. 1865, p. 119. 



Hab. India, Sikim. 



Very like M. hathidh, but with a yellow dorsal streak, and the 

 yellow on the belly much narrower. The soles of the hind feet 

 bald ; the pads exposed, distinct, developed. 



4. Gymnopus aMcauus. 



Eeddish brown ; beneath pale yellow, with a narrow central lon- 

 gitudinal reddish-brown ventral streak ; tail reddish brown ; hairs 

 long. 



Mustela aMcana, Besm. N. Diet. H. N. six. p. 376; Besm. Mamm. 



p. 179. 

 Putorius aMcanus, A. Smith, South Afr. Joum. ii. p. 36. 

 Mustela (Gale) aMcana, Schim, 8yn. Mamm.^. 345. 

 Gymnopus africanus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 120. 



The specimen of M. africana in the Paris Museum is like M. er- 

 minea, but lighter, larger, and the belly with only a broad yellow 

 streak on each side, leaving the middle brown ; tail uniform reddish 

 brown, like the back, to the end. 



