52 VITEEPaDiE. 



they are brown with black edge, in others almost uniformly black ; 

 but I can see no characters by which they can be separated. 



Genetta poensis seems to be the same variety as that described by 

 I. GeofFroy and M. Dii Chaillu. 



4. FOSSA. 



The back without any black subcrested vertebral streak ; the soles 



of the hind feet.hairy^-with — ? 



Fossa, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 518. ' / 



Fossa Daubentonii. ' ^ / < 



Fossa Daubentonii, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 518. 

 Viverra fossa, Schreh. Sduqeth. t. 114 (from Buffon). 

 Genetta fossa. Gray, P. Z. S. 1822. 

 Fossane, Buffon, H. N. xiii. p. 163, t. 21. 



Hah. Madagascar {Mus. Paris.). 



" Fur grey-black, rufous-varied, awhite spot over the hinder angle 

 of the eye ; back and nape with black lines, four of which extend 

 from the nape to the tail, continuous to the middle of the back, and 

 the last of their length broken into very close spots ; the sides, 

 shoulders, and thighs with spots placed in three lines on each side ; 

 hps, chin, and beneath dirty white ; tail with many narrow half- 

 rings, of a reddish colour, which do not extend to the lower side ; 

 feet yellowish white. Length of body and head 17 inches, of tail 

 8| inches. There are no subcaudal glands. 



" Hah. Madagascar (Poivre, Mus. Acad. Sci. 1761)." — Buffon. 



I do not know any other description of this species ; that by all 

 other authors, including Dr. A. Smith, is a mere copy of the above. 

 There does not appear to be anj- central dorsal strips, so characteristic 

 of the Genets ; the soles of the^^iM^ feet have not been described. 



Tribe III. PRIONODONTINA. 



Body slender, elongate ; limbs very short ; tubercular grinders \ ; 

 fur soft, close, erect ; the tail very long, cylindrical, ringed. 



5. LINSANG. 



Prionodon (subgenus otFelis), llorsf. Java; Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 519. 

 Linsang, Gray, Cat. Ma^nm. B. M. p. 48 ; Muller, Zoog. ind. Arch. 



Body very slender ; back not crested. " Pupil linear, erect " 

 (Hodgson). Legs short. Tail very long, cylindrical, dark-ringed. 

 Toes 5/5. Claws very acute. Skull elongate. Teeth 38 ; false 

 grinders f . f ; flesh-tooth elongate ; tubercular grinders g . g. 



Hah. Asia and Africa. 



1. Linsang gracilis. (Linsang,) B.M. 



Fur white ; back with broad black cross bands ; sides of neck with 



