15. HTTROGALE. Ill 



4. Aonyx aurobriumea. B.M. 



Lutra aurobrunnea, Sodgs. MS. ; Ann. 8; Mag. N. H. ; Proc. Zool. 



Soc. 1858, p. 126; Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. p. 71. 

 Aonyx aurobrunnea, Gray, Ann. 8f Mag. N. H. 1837, p. 119 ; P. Z. S. 



1865, p. 131. 



Hal. Nepal. 



Specimen in very bad state. 



Mr. Hodgson states, " the Otters, in the upper region of the Hi- 

 malaya, are represented by the small golden and brown species, L. 

 aurobrunnea, in the central by L. monticola and L. indigitata, and 

 in the lower by the large Chinese species L. sinensis " (Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1855, p. 126). 



tt The under surface of the feet, between thejmger-pads and palms, sprinkled 

 with scattered soft hairs ; the inner part of the under surface of the 

 two inner hind toes with a hand of close, short, soft hairs ; the muzzle 

 transverse and bald. 



15. HYDROGALE. 



like Lutra externally ; but the feet large, elongate, very broadly 

 webbed ; the toes, especially of the hinder feet, long ; the pads of 

 the toes and palms are less developed and separated from each other 

 by a greater distance ; the under surface of the feet sprinkled with 

 scattered soft hairs, and the edges of the two inner hind toes have 

 a band of close, short, soft hairs. The skull elongate; the nose 

 very short ; the forehead narrow; the orbit scarcely defined behind, 

 without any indication of a tubercle on either the upper or lower 

 edge. The flesh-tooth with the internal lobe shorter than the outer 

 portion of the tooth ; the tubercular grinder rhombic, wider than 

 long ; the hinder portion of the palate rather short, with an arched 

 posterior opening. 



Hydrogale, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 131. 



The nose of the skull very short, much broader than long from 

 front of orbit to the intermaxillary bone; uose-aperture large, 

 oblique ; the hinder and outer portion of the upper jaws hairy ; the 

 tubercular grindfer produced beyond the back edge of the orbit; 

 nasal bones produced beyond the middle of the orbit ; suborbital 

 foramen large, oblong, transverse, occupjdng half the under edge of 

 the orbit. 



Hydrogale maculicollis. (Fig. 15.) B.M. 



Blackish brown ; throat, breast, and belly yeUow-spotted ; upper 

 lip and beneath paler. 



? Lutra maculicollis, Lichtenstein, Arch.f. Nat: 1835, 1. 89, t. 

 Lutra Grayi, J. E. Verreaux, Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1857 (type, B.M.) ; 



Gerrard, Cat. Boms, B. M. p. 101. 

 Hydrogale maculicoUis, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 132 (fig. skull). 



Hab. South Africa, Ca&eland ; Natal (^Vetreauo!, Brit. Mus.). 



