2. HEEPESTES. j^g 



1 . Galidictis vittata. B ^ 



Pn,?nl'^' ^^^f.-^^'i-^liite-grizzled; back and sides with eight nearly 

 equal, parallel narrow, black-brown streaks; chin and beneath p2 

 brown ; hmd feet and outer sides of fore legs reddish brown T.U 



nS^'hlretnt'i^^^ ''''^^'' ^^^^^ '-"^^ ^he 



Hack rings. ^' '"^ ''^'^'' ^^^ *^"' '^''^y ^^''^' broad 



I 2 (skun). ' ^' ' ^''^'^'^' ^«^- <^^ Zool. xi. p. 465, t. is! 



Hah. Madagascar {T. Thompson, Mus. Brit ) 



2. Galidictis striata. 



Pale brown ; seven or nine longitudinal black streaks, the middle 

 whitish. '^"'^ '''''''' ^''^ ^^-^ l^'^b^ P^l^ brown; tail 



^Sfp.1j?.*^' ^' ^"'^- ^"^- '^'^°'''- ^^^^' *• IS' 19; &r«y, P. Z & 

 Galictis striata, I Geoff. Compt. Rend Acad. Sci. 1837, p 581 

 Mustek striata, Geoff Mus. Paris. ; Fischer, Srpi. Mamn p 224 

 Pictonus striatus, Cnvier, Rkcfne An. ed 2 p 144 ^' 



La^B^ektte gnse de Madagascar, Sganzin, Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1855, 



Eab. Madagascar. 



lpjjl>,*^.f fr^'^i *?,^ brain-cavity is nearly three-fifths the entire 

 length of the skull, and the skull at the widest part of the zygo- 

 matic arch IS as large as the brain-cavity. Sk^m oblong, rather 

 elongate; brain-cavity rather more than half the entire len-^th- 

 orbit very mcomplete behind; forehead arched; crown ilat • u^pe; 

 false grinders two, compressed; the flesh-tooth elongate, trigonal 

 much longer, than broad at the front edge-the intfma tuberde 

 moderate, on the front edge; tubercular grinders transverse the 

 lirst rather tngonal, narrow on the inner side, the second oblons 

 much smaller (see I. Geoff. I.e. t. 19). "oiong, 



2. HERPESTES. 



Body elongate ; limbs moderate ; back grizzled. Tail conical 

 covered with long hairs. Toes 5 . 5 ; claws short, compressed. Pupil 

 bnear, erect. Skull elongate. Teeth 40 ; false grinders | 3- flesh 

 tooth elongate, narrow, longer than broad on the front edge -'tuber- 

 cular grinders transverse. ' 



Herpestes, Illiger ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 548 

 Mangusta, Olivier. 

 Ichneumon, Geoff. 



