18 SJOSTEDTS KILIMANDJARO-MERU EXPEDITION. 2. 



same may be said about the red Hya?na from Kibonoto as well. The lateral contour 

 lines of the occipital surface when seen from behind run quite straight, forming an acute 

 angle in crista sagittalis both in C. germinans and C. kibonotensis. 



The upper molar is present as a slight rudiment on one side, absent on the other. 



It is evident that C. germinans and C. kibonotensis resemble each other in several 

 respects, but at the same time the differences are easily seen and make them quite dis- 

 tinct. With regard to the skull the former is much broader across the facial, interorbital 

 and palatal portions, although the length of the two skulls compared are almost practi- 

 cally identical (5 mm. difference). 



Their areas of distribution are also widely distant and the intervening district is, 

 as it seems, inhabited by another Spotted Hyaena. There is namely sufficient reason 

 to believe that C. kibonotensis has been killed at the southern frontier of its distribution 

 and that it really is at home north of Kilimandjaro. Thanks to the kindness 

 of my friend Professor MATSCHIE, to whom I also owe the opportunity of measuring 

 the skull of the type of C. germinans, I have been allowed to see in the R. Zool. Museum 

 in Berlin two skins of a red Hyaena killed at the Njiri lakes north of Kilimandjaro by 

 SCHILLINGS. These I think belong to the same race as SJOSTEDT'S red Hyaena from Ki- 

 bonoto. They were reddish all over. The spots on the fore quarters were not so dark 

 ner so sharply defined as those on the hind quarters which were almost blackish. The 

 tail was short. The feet of the older specimen were reddish brown. 



A skull of a spotted Hyrena in the R. Zool. Museum Berlin, collected at Kibwesi 

 by HUBNER may also belong to the same form. Its basilar length was 225 mm., the 

 interorbital width 53,5 mm., the distance between the upper carnassial teeth posteriorly 

 89 mm., the length of the upper carnassial tooth 36.5 mm. 



A skull collected by SCHEFFER in British East Africa (R. Zool. Mus., Berlin) had 

 a basilar length of 220 mm. interorbital breadth 57,5, distance between upper carnassial 

 teeth posteriorly 87.2 mm. 



There was, however, no skin to the latter skull, so I do not like to give any definite 

 opinion about it. The occiput was also different in shape but this may, at least to some 

 extent, be due to difference in age. A couple of skins from Kibwesi were reddish, espe- 

 cially anteriorly. 



C'rocotta panganensis n. sp. 

 (PI. 5, fig. 2; PI. 7, fig. 2.) 



Kilimandjaro: 1 specimen from Kibonoto, May 1906. - 1 skeleton of a young 

 but adult specimen from the Kibonoto steppe April 1906. 



This Hyaena is very different from the red C. kibonotensis as well in colour as to 

 cranial characteristics. Its ground colour is brownish ash, shading into rusty brown in 

 the mane of the withers and upper neck. Black spots distributed all over the body and 

 flanks and down on the legs where they gradually become confluent with the blackish 

 brown ground colour of these parts. Feet dark brown, on the forefeet a little mixed 

 with rusty brown. Lower parts of body grey mixed with blackish and with less defined 

 black spots. Sides of neck dirty ochre }'ellow with som elittle defined, dark spots, lower 



