140 MELINID^. 



middle longest and uneqiial ; claws acute, short. Tail elongate, co- 

 vered with long flaccid hair. Teeth 34 ; false griuders | . f ; upper 

 tubercular grinder short, oblong, transverse (Licht. Abh. Akad. Berl. 

 1S36, t. 1. f. 3, skuU). 



Zorilla, Gray, List. Mamm. B. M. xx. p. 67 ; P. Z. S. 1865, p. 150. 



Ictonyx, Kaup; Sundevall, Kong. Vet. Akad. Hand. 1841, p. 214 

 (1842). 



Rhabdogale, Wagner. 



1. Zorilla Striata. (The ZoriUe.) B.M. 



Black ; spot on forehead, and each temple, and four stripes on the 



back (which are dihited on the sides, only leaving a broad black 



patch ou middle of the back, and then curving to the base of the taU) 



white ; tail black-and-white varied. 



Viveri'a zorilla, Thunb. Act. Petrop. iii. p. S06. 



Mustek zorilla, Cuv. Tabl. Elem. p. 116 (1798). 



Viverra striata, Shaw. 



Mustek zorilla, Ciwier, B. A. ; Blainv. Osteogr. Mustela, t. 13. f. 



(teeth). 

 Zorilla capensis, Waterh. Cat. 2^ol. Soc. 

 Putorius zorilla, A. Smith. 

 Mephitis africana, Licht. 



Mephitis zorilla, Licht. Darstell. d. Sdiigeth. t. 48. f. (not Ahhand.) . 

 Zorilla leucomelas, F. Cuv. 



Rhabdogale mustelina, Wagner, Schreb. Suppl. ii. p. 219, 1. 133 a. 

 Ictonyx capensis, Smuhv. IC Veten. Akad. Hand. 1841, p. 214. 

 FMephitis Hbyca, Ehrenb. 



Zorilla striata, Gray, List Mamtn. B. M. p. 67 ; P. Z. S. 1865, p. 161. 

 Mustela libyca, Blainv. Osteogr. Mustek, 1. 13. f. (teeth). 

 Putois du Cap, ou Zorille, Biiffon, H. N. xii. 

 Muis-hond, Cape Colonists. 



Hah. South Africa. 



Yar. senegalensis. White streaks broader, leaving only very nar- 

 row dark dorsal ones ; tail whiter. B.M. 

 Hah. Senegal. 



2. Zorilla frenata. B.M. 



Brown ; fur elongate, very soft, fluffy ; lips, chin, a broad band 

 encircling the face, two broad bands diverging from the crown and 

 two narrower diverging from shoulders, and some spots on the hinder 

 part of the back white ; taU white-and-black varied. 



Mephitis (Ictonyx) frenata, Sundevall, Kong. Vet. Akad. Hand. 1841, 



t. 4. f. 1. 

 Mephitis africana, var., Licht. 

 Mustela zorilla, var., Riqipell. 



? Rhabdogale multivittata, Wagner, Schreb. Sdugeth. Supp. 

 Zorilla frenata, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 151. 



Hah. Sennaar. 



See also Zorilla VaillantU, Loche (Rev. Zool. p. 497), from Algeria, 

 which I have not seen. 



