120 BULLETIN 99, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



rings darker but still chocolate brown, not seal brown. Skull number 5333 — 

 condylo-incisiive length, 90; zygomatic breadth, 45; interorbital width, 13.4; 

 postorbital width, 9.2; nasals, 19 + X 7.5; upper tooth row including canine, 35; 

 mandible length, 63. 



We have no specimens from within the coast strip region from 

 which Matschie described still another form, Genetta suahelica} 



HeUer's notes taken on the type-specimen of this race in Berlin 

 are as follows: 



Genetta. suahelica Matechie. Type, 9 A6577, Tanga, German East AMca; O. Neu- 

 mann. Skin stuffed, skull perfect. Color, dorsal stripe black, spots on back and 

 sides with russet centers and seal-brown margins; ground color buffy. Very close in 

 color to Nairobi forest specimens. Skull: condylo-incisive length, 88; zygomatic 

 width, 48; interorbital width, 14; poatorbital width, 12; nasals, 20.5 X 8; upper tooth 

 row including canine, 33.2; mandible length, 60. 



GENETTA PUMILA Hotlister. 



Plate 30. 



1916. Genetia puviila IIollister, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 66, No. 1, p. 4, 

 Februarj- 10. (Mount Gargues, British East Africa; type in U. S. Nat. 

 Mus.) 



Specimen. — One, as follows : 



British East Africa: North Creek, Mount Gargues, at 6,000 feet 

 (HeUer). 



This pygmy form of the stuhlmanni group is recognizable from 

 other East African genets by size alone. It is known only from the 

 type-specimen which was captured by the Ramey expedition of 19U. 



Genus NANDINIA Gray. 



1S43. Nandinia Gray, List. Mamm. Brit. Mub., pp. xx and 54. {N. binotata.) 



Although forma of the African palm civet were known from Mount 

 Kilimanjaro and Kuwenzori, the specimen.^ constituting the type 

 series of Heller's new subspecies, listed below, were the first to be 

 pecx)rsel«d from British East Africa. 



VANDIMA BINOTATA AKHOREA Heller. 



Plate 31. 



1913. Ndjidinie fyinotata arborea Heller, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 01, No. 13, 

 p. 9. September 16. (Lukosa River, British East Africa; type in U. S. 

 Nat. Mus.) 



Specimem. — Thi'ee, from the following localities : 



British East Africa: Kaimosi, 1 (Heller); Kakuniega, 1 (Hol- 

 ler); Lukosa River, 1 (Heller). 



The specimen from Kaimosi is immature. The measurements of 

 the adult male type from Lukosa River and the adult female from 

 Kakumega are: Head and body, 550, 490; tail vertebrse, 625, 570; 

 hind foot, 95, 80; ear, 38, 38; condylobasal length of skull, 106, 96; 



I Verhsixtl. des \'. Interant. Zoo-'.-^'ongr. Horlin, p. 1143. 1903. 



