VERTEBRATA. 1 5 



2. Heepestes griseus, Desm. Mamm.; Cantor, Mamm. Malay, 34. Ichneumon griseus, Geoff. 

 Mangusta grisea, Fischer. M. Malaccensis, Fischer, Syn. Mamm. H. Edwardsii, Fischer. M. Nyula, 

 Hodgson. H. ? pallidus, Schinz. 



Hab. Malayan peninsula ; Cantor. Bengal, Hindostan, Scinde, Nepal. B. M. 



3. Heepestes iVe^e/m.j, Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. Mangusta auropunctata, Hodgson. Herpestes auro- • 

 punctata, Hodgson; Cantor, Mamm. Malay, 34. H. Javanica, Hodgson, not Horsf. H. Edwardsii, Ogilby. 



Hab. Malayan peninsula ; Cantor. Bengal ? Nepal ? Scinde ? Afghanistan ? B. M. 



4. Heepestes irachyurus, Gray, in Bond. Mag. Nat. Hist, new Series, i. 1836, 578. Cantor, Mamm. 

 Malay, 35. (Plate III.) 



Black hairs, yellow-ringed ; under fur brown ; face, cheeks, and sides of neck yellower ; 

 belly and tail darker ; throat pale yellow-brown ; forelegs and feet blackish ; tail thick, 

 about half as long as the body. 



Hab. Malaccas, Malayan peninsula ; called musang turon ; Cantor. Borneo. B. M. 



This species has much the appearance of H. pdludosus, of South Africa, but is easily 

 known by the yellower colour of the rings on the hair, and the shortness of the tail. 



5. Heepestes semitorquatus, Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist, xviii. 211. (1846). (Plate IV.) 

 Dark brown, yellow grisled ; sides and beneath rufous ; feet blacker ; tail paler ; lips 



thin ; throat and lower part of the side of the neck rufous, separated from the colour of 

 the upper part of the neck by a well-defined straight line ; fur rather rigid, with a fine 

 brown undercoat ; longer hair of the back dark brown, with a broad reddish yellow, sub- 

 terminal band ; of the sides bright red-bay ; of tail pale yellow, with a broad dark band and 

 yellowish tip. Length, head and body 18.6; tail 11 inches. 

 Hab. Borneo. B.M. 



8. CYNOGALE. 



1. Ctsogale Benneiti, Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. 1836, 1. 579 ; Pro. Zool. Soc, 1836, 56 ; Eydoux and 

 Souleyet, Toy. Bonite Zool. 24. t. 6 ; Cantor, Mamm. Malay, 38. Potamophilus barbatus, Mutter, Zijdsch. 

 N. G. v. 140 183; Terh. 115. 1. 17. "Viverra (Lhnictis) Carcharias, Blainville, Ann. Sci. Nat. viii. 279. 

 t. 8 a. 



Hab. Borneo ; Mutter. Sumatra and Malayan peninsula ; called Pane ; Cantor. B. M. 



9. AECTICTIS. 



1. Abctictis Binturong, Eischer, Syn. Mamm. ; Cantor, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xv. ; Mamm. Malay. 22. 

 Yrverra? Binturong, Baffles, Linn. Trans, xiii. 253. Binturong, Farquhar, Icon. ined. Gray, Pro. Zool. 

 Soc, 1831, 64. Paradoxuras albifrons, F. Cuvier. Ictides ater, F. Cuvier; Blainv. ; Calcutta Journ. Nat. 

 Hist. iii. 210. Arctictis penicillata, Temm. 



