Hollisbei — Two New Polecat* Related to Mustela larvata. 3 



Mack. Qnderparts with pectoral and inguinal areas of black connected 

 l>y a median stripe of blackish, the middle underparts of body otherwise 

 griseous. 



Color of type. — Ring around nose pad, lips, and chin pure white; be- 

 tween eye and ear gray; rest of face, including ring around eye, base of 

 ear, and top of head, dark bistre. Ears, except at base, pure white. 

 Back of head, nape, and forward half of back uniform dark tawny-olive; 

 posterior half of back with long overlying hairs with black ends. Tail 

 at base brown, the terminal two-thirds black. Throat, breast, arms to 

 shoulders, anal region, groin, and legs pure black; the two black areas 

 connected by a narrow grayish-black band; rest of underparts clouded 

 grayish-butt'. 



Measurements of type. — Head and body, 390 mm.; tail vertebrae, 150; 

 hind foot, without claws, 93; ear, 83. Skull: Condylobasal length, (>6. 7; 

 zygomatic breadth, 38.5; least postorbital breadth, 14.5; upper molar- 

 premolar row, 18.5; length of mandible, 43.3; lower molar-premolar 

 row, 21.4. 



Specimens examined. — Three from the type locality. 



