2 Holliste) — A New Water Mungoose from East Africa. 



broadly tipped with bay; gradually blending to the pure black terminal 

 third. 



Skull and teeth. — Compared with the skull of the adult male robustus 

 the skull of this new form is considerably smaller, with wider rostrum; 

 opening of anterior nares actually larger ; audita] bullae very much reduced, 

 little more than one-half the bulk. Compared with a skull of paludinosus 

 from West Africa (no skulls of this form from the Cape are available) it 

 is slightly smaller, with smaller teeth, and very much smaller bulla'. 

 Teeth as in robustus, but relatively larger; m 1 actually larger. 



Measurements of type (from dry skin). — Head and body, 610; tail, 330. 

 Skull of type compared with measurements of the skull of the Guas 

 Ngishu specimen of robustus, the latter in parentheses: Greatest length, 

 L09.5 (IIS. 6); condylobasal length, 102.5 (10S.2); basal length, 94.1 

 (101); zygomatic breadth, 55.5 ( — ); postorbital constriction, 15.3 

 (15.5); upper tooth row, including canine, 37.8 (39.1); upper molar- 

 premolar row, 2(1(30.5); length of mandible, 7.'!. 2 (75); lower molar- 

 premolar row, 33.1 (35). 



