5. MELLIVOEA. 131 



hinder edges obliquely truncated, with two compressed tubercles on 

 each edge, the inner tubercle largest. Lower jaw rather slender ; 

 chin flattened, shelving ; the cutting-teeth truncated, the middle on 

 each side rather behind the rest; canine curved; false grinders 

 three, compressed, the front small, the third with a conical lobe on 

 the hinder edge; the flesh-tooth oblong, with three compressed 

 tubercles on each edge ; the hinder outer and the front inner being 

 the largest and single, the front outer and hinder inner lobe being 

 double-coned ; tubercular grinder moderate, circular. 



Length of skull 3" 2'", palate 1" 7'", of lower jaw 2", of nose 1", 

 width of brain-case over ears 1" 4|"', of nose at front of orbits 9'". 



Mydaus meliceps. B.M. 



Brown ; crown, nape, dorsal streak, and tip of a very short tail 

 white. 



Var. a. Dorsal streak broad in front, and' continued to tip of 

 tail. B.M. 



Var. 6. Streak interrupted on withers, narrow behind ; tip of tail 

 white. B.M. 



Var. c. Streak dilated into a broad patch over the withers, narrow 

 behind ; taU, great part white. B.M. 



Ursus foetidus, Desch. MS. Icon, in B. M. ! 



Mydaus meliceps, F. Cuvier, Mamm. Zith. t. ; Sarsf. Java, t. ; Cuvier, 



Oss. Foss. iv. p. 474; Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 1&. 

 Mephitis javanensis, Desm. Mamm.^. 187. 

 Mydaus _ia,vamcua, ^foma. Osteogr. Subursus, t. 1 (skeleton). 

 Mydaus javanensis, Blainv.Osteogr. Subursus, t. 7 (skull), t. 9 (teeth). 

 Stmkkard or Teledu, Marsden, Sumatra, p. 117. 



Hah. Sumatra (Raffles). 



Tribe II. MELLIVOEINA. 



Tubercular grinder transverse, band-like ; palate only slightly 

 produced behind; flesh-tooth with a small internal lobe, with a 

 single tubercle. Fur black below, white above. 



MeUivorina, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 143. 



5. MELLIVOEA. 



Head depressed ; nose blimt ; ears indistinct. Body stout, de- 

 pressed ; legs short, strong ; plantigrade. Toes 5.5; front claws 

 elongate, very strong, the bald sole of hind foot occupying the 

 whole undersurface, only slightly divided across about one-third of 

 its length from the front (Hodgson, J. A. S. B. t. 31. f. 2). TaH 

 short, subcylindrical. Skull contracted behind ; orbits very iacom- 

 plete, scarcely contracted behind. Teeth 32; premolars f . f ; 

 grinders | (Blainv. Osteogr. MitsteU, t. 2). 



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