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Dr. Peters considers the animal called the Ttoti/a (which is common 

 on the island of Anjuan, one of the Comoro Islands, near Madagascar, 

 on the east coast of Africa) the same as the Viverra rasse of Dr. 

 Horstield ; he says it agrees with it in colour, in the form of the 

 ears, and in the bristly quality of its fur, and it has the soles of its 

 feet covered with hair as in that animal. He also observes that the 

 fauna of these islands agrees more with those of Madagascar and 

 India than with that of continental Africa (see Peters, Reise nach 

 Mossamb., Mammalia, p. 113). If the animal is identical, it is the 

 only species of the familj' I know common to Asia and Africa. 



Tribe II. GENETTINA. 



The body robust ; tubercular grinders f . f ; the underside of the 

 tarsus of the hind feet with a narrow bald line extending from the 

 pads nearly to the heel. The orbit of the skull is very imperfect, 

 only contracted above. The fur is soft, spotted or cloudy, and the 

 tail ringed. 



3. GENETTA. 



The body elongate ; back with a broad, contiiiued, more or less 

 crested, black streak. Tail long, slender, hairy, ringed. Legs mo- 

 derate. Feet hairy. Toes 5/5 ; the sole of the hind foot with a 

 narrow longitudinal bald streak. Claws short, retractile. Skull 

 elongate, narrow. Teeth 40 ; false grinders ^ . ^; flesh-tooth elon- 

 gate ; tubercular grinders f . ^. 



Genetta, Cuv. Mamm. LitJiogr. 



Genetta, Brisson, R. A. p. 252 ; Gray, P. Z. S. ii. ( 18;!2 ) p. ()•'' ; 18G4, 



p. 515. 

 Genettina, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p . 515. 



Hah. Africa and South Europe. 



* Tail (aperi)iff, with elongate, rather spreading hairs, anil with niuneroui 

 black and white rings; tip white. 



1. Genetta vulgaris. (Genet.) B.M. 



Blackish grey, black-spotted ; tail elongate, with white and black 



rings of nearly equal length, the tip whitish ; vertebral line black, 



subcristate ; the fore legs and the feet grey, black-spotted ; the hind 



legs black behind near the hock. 



Genetta vulgaris, Gray, P. Z. S. ii. (1832) p. 63; 1864, p. 615. 



Viverra niaculata, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 9, t. 9. 



Genetta afra, F. Cuv. Mamm. Lithogr. t. 



Viverra genetta, Linn. ; Fischer, Syn. Mamm. p. 169. 



Genetta Bonapartei, Loche, Mag. Zool. 1857, t. 18. 



Hah. South Europe, North Africa, and Asia: in B. M., from 

 Nismes (^Verreau.r) \ Madrid, Algiers {Loche); Tangier {Fauier); 

 Barbary {Gray) ; Asia, Mount QMVxael {Tristram). 



