26 NILS GYLDENSTOLPE, THE SWEDISH ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITIONS TO SIAM. 



Paradoxurus hermaphroditus ravus. Miller. 



$ Hat Sanuk, Siamese Malaya, iS /t 1915. — Nose to vcnt = 555 mm.; tail = 500 mm. 



In the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections Vol. 61 N:o 21, 1913, p. 2, Mr. Gerrit 

 Miller described a new race of a Palmcivet which he proposed to call Paradoxurus 

 hermaphroditus ravus. 



The new race was based on specimens collected by Doctor Abbott in Träng, Penin- 

 sular Siarn. 



It differs from true Paradoxurus hermaphroditus Pall. by having the ground co- 

 lour of the upperparts of the body noticeably paler, almost grey. This agrees fairly well 

 with one of my specimens collected at Hat Sanuk in the Siamese Malaya, but there is 

 a light area on the basal part of the tail. This stånds in contradiction to what is stated 

 by Miller about the type in which there is »no conspicuous light area of the basal third 

 of the tail». 



The skull does not show any considerable differences between that one of true Pa- 

 radoxurus hermaphroditus Pall. in my Siamese collection with the exception that the 

 postorbital constriction is very narrow, measuring only 10,2 mm. against 11,9 mm. in a 

 female specimen of Paradoxurus hermaphroditus Pall. 



The Palm Civets are very variable both as to size and colour but until more ma- 

 terial has been available I have kept Miller's name distinct. 



Skull measurements* : 



Greatest length = 115,5; basicranial length = 109,5; condylobasal length = 115,2 

 (104,s); zygomatic width = 62,5 (58,2); width of brain case = 36, i (35,4); length of 

 nasals mesially = 19,o; greatest breadth of combined nasals = 11, i; least intcrorbital 

 breadth = 20,5 (18, o); least postorbital breadth = 10,2; length of palate from henselion 

 = 48,s; breadth of palate between sectorials = 18,3; length of bulla? = 18, s; maxillary 

 toothrow — 43,o mm. 



Paradoxurus hermaphroditus laotum, subsp. n. 



Plate IV. Fig. 2 & 4. 

 J* Chieng Hai, Upper Siam, i:, /s 1914. — Nose to vent = 640 mm.; tail = 530 mm.; ear = 50 mm. 



A single male specimen of this new race of the Palm Civet was shot in a bamboo 

 clump just outside the town of Chieng Hai in Upper Siam on the 15th of August 1914. 



Diagnosis: 



Like Paradoxurus hermaphroditus Pall. but larger. The black longitudinal stripes 

 on the back are well-defined and are running down to the root of the tail where they 

 unite forming a median band. The lateral bands are fairly distinct and form three rows; 

 on the hinder parts of the body they are replaced by rows of black spöts. The 



1 Measurements in parenthesis are those of the female type specimen according to Millek. 



