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zygomatic breadth, 62.6, 56.1; interorbital breadth, 19.5, 18.3; post- 

 orbital breadth, 15.8, 14.6; mastoid breadth, 41.7, 38.1; lachrymal 

 foramen to alveolar point, 35.7, 31.4; greatest length nasals, 27.3, 

 26.1 ; upper tooth row, including canine, 37.2, 34.1 ; upper camassial, 

 7.6 X 5.4, 7.4 X 5.2; length of mandible, 75.4, 70.6; lower tooth row, 

 including canine, 41, 37.9. 



Genus MUNGOS Geoffroy and Cnvier, 



1795. Mungos Geoffroy aud Cuvier, Mag. Encycl., voL 2, p. 187. {M. mungo.) 

 1799. Ichneumon Lac^pede, Tab. Div., Ord. Gen. Mamm., p. 7. (M. ichneumon.) 

 1811. Herpestes Ili.iger, Prodr. Syst. Mamm. et Avium, pp. 135, 202. {M. ichneu- 



mon.) 

 1865. Calogale Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, pp. 509, 560. (M. nepa- 



lensis.) 

 1865. Galerella Gr.vy, Proc. Zool. Soo. London, 1864, pp. 509, 564. February. 



(J/, ochraceus.) 

 1914. Calogale Matschib, Sitz.-ber. Ges. nat. Freunde Berlin, 1914, p. 438. 



This genus, together with the succeeding genera of Viverridse, are 

 considered by Pocock to belong to a separate family which he calls 

 the Mungotidse.* Matschie (1914) considers the members of the 

 "gr'acilis" group as forming a distinct genus, Calogale. 



Foi' measurements of specimens of mungooses see pages 128-129. 



MUNGOS DENTIFER Heller. 



Plate 32, figs. 1, 2, 3. 



1913. Mumjo8 dentijer Hkller, Smithsonian Mikc. Coll., vol. 61, No. 13, p. 10, 

 September 16. (Maji-ya-chumvi, British East Africa; type in U. S. 

 Nat. Mufl.) 



Specimeiis. — Two, as follows : 



British East Africa: Maji-ya-chumvi, 2 (Heller). 



This smaU mungoose of the ochraceus-melanurus group agrees witii 

 the Zanzibar Island species, Mungos lasti, in possessing small first 

 lower premolai's, a character which distinguishes these two forms 

 from aU their i*elatives so far as known. 



MUNGOS SANGUINEUS PARVIPES Kolllst«r. 



Plate 32, figs. 4, 5, 6. 



1916. Mungoa mn^mneug pamipes Hollister, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 6f5, 

 No. 1, p. 5. February 10. {Kaimosi, Kavirondo, British East Africa . 

 type in IT. S. Nat. Mus.) 



Specimens. — Two, from the following localities: 



British East Africa : Kaimosi, 1 (Heller) ; Lukosa River, 1 (Hel- 

 ler). 



This form is readily distmguished from its geographical neighbors 

 by its small skull and short hind foot. The typo-specimen from 



> Ann. ana Mag. ^^o^. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 17, p. 415, Jime, 1916; Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1916, p. 349, June, 

 1916. 



