JOURNAL 



ASIATIC SOCIETY 



CATALOGUE OF MAMMALIA 



Inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula and Islands, 



Collected or observed by Theodore Cantor, M. D., 

 Bengal Medical Service. 



{£p> Localities printed in Italics signify those from whence the animals of the Cata- 

 logue were obtained : localities in ordinary type those previously given by authors. 





[Continued from p. 203.] 

 Gen. — Herpestes, Illiger. 



Herpestes javanicus, Desmarest. 



Syn. — Ichneumon javanicus, Geoffroy. 

 Mangusta javanica, Horsfield. 

 " Garangan," Horsfield. 

 Hab. — Pinang, Malayan Peninsula. 

 Java. 

 The species is numerous. The largest male measured from the apex 

 of the nose to the root of the tail one foot four and a half inches ; the tail 

 one foot one and a half inch. 



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