32 PRIMATES, CARNIVORES AND UNGULATES 



The hog-badgers closely resemble the pigs in their long, 

 mobile and naked snouts which are truncated with the nostrils 

 placed in the terminal disc. 



40a. * ARCTONYX COLLARIS, F. Cuvier. The Hog-badger. 

 Blanford, p. 178. 



Colour dirty grey, slightly washed with blackish above 

 where the long hairs on back and sides have black tips. Head 

 white with variable dark markings but the area surrounding 

 the eye always white. Throat, sides of neck and tail whitish : 

 lower parts and limbs dusky, the latter sometimes black. 

 Head and body about 30 inches, tail 10 inches. 



The only record from the Peninsula is that of a pair 

 obtained in Trang by Dr. W. L. Abbott in 1896. The species 

 is well known in Tenasserim and Burmah. 



Subfamily LUTRIN^. 

 Genus Lutea. 



Feet round and webbed, claws blunt, head broad and flat, 

 ears small, tail moderate, limbs short, body round and elongated. 

 Upper and lower cheek-teeth five aside, last upper molars 

 very large and square. Fur dense and woolly at base. Aquatic. 



Malay name " Mrang-mrang " or " Anjing aver." 



Key to the Speeies. 



A. Claws absent or rudimentary ; size small L. CINEEEA. 



B. Claws present and well developed. 



a. Nose entirely hairy, size large L. SUMATRANA. 



b. Nose naked, upper margin of naked area 



nearly straight ... ... L. MACEODUS. 



41. Lute A cineeea, Illiger. The Small Clawless Otter, 

 Thomas, P. Z. S., 1889, p. 190. Lutra leptonyx. 

 Blanford, p. 187. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



