Paguma larvata (H. Smith, 1827) . In Griffith, Cuvier's Anim. Kingd., 2:281.

TYPE LOCALITY: China, Canton .

DISTRIBUTION: India and Nepal, China north to Hopei and Shansi; vic. Peking; Hainan Isl. (China); Taiwan; Thailand; Malaya; Vietnam; Sumatra; N. Borneo; Viper Isl. (S. Andaman Isis.).

COMMENT: Hamilton-Smith type locality unknown. Gray first assigned the name to two specimens collected by J. R. Reeve from Canton, China; see Pocock, 1934, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1934:666(WCW). Probably includes lanígera (SW); see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:290.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301412005011001001.