162 HERPESTID-E. 



aciite. Skull elongate ; brain-case rather ventricose. Face short. 

 Teeth 38 ; false grinders f . f ; flesh-tooth triangular, longer than 

 broad ; tubercular grinders |- . f, transverse. 

 Galerella, Grai/, P. Z. S. 1864, p. o64. 



Galerella ochracea. B.M. 



Pale brown, minutely punctulatcd ; throat, underside, and inside 

 of the hmbs white ; tail-end black ; front thumb very small, low 

 down. 



Cynictis ochracea, Gerrard, Cat. Ost. B. M. p. 77. 



Herpestes ocbraceus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1848, p. 138, pi. 8 ; Atm. 4'' Mag. 



N. II. 1849, iv. p. 376. 

 Herpestes mutgigella, var., Teimn. Esq. Zool. p. 110. 

 CxalereUa ochracea. Gray, F. Z. S. 1864, p. 564. 



Hah. East Africa : Abyssinia {F. H. Hora). 



Skull elongate ; brain-case rather ventricose ; face short, fore- 

 head arched; flesh-tooth triangular, much longer than broad, inner 

 tubercle anterior ; false grinders f . f ; the hinder tubercular very 

 small ; orbit incomplete behind ; not so contracted in front over the 

 back of the orbit. Like Calogale badia in size, but brain-ease more 

 ventricose. 



M. Temminck regards this as only a seasonal state of H. mutgi- 

 gella (Esq. Zool. p. 116), not observing that it has no internal toe 

 on the hind feet. 



6. CALICTIS. 



The pupil oblong, transverse. Claws rather arched, compressed. 

 Tail thick, conical, tapering. Ears rounded. Skull elongate, face 

 short. Teeth 40 ; false grinders f . | ; the flesh-tooth triangular, 

 scarcely longer than broad ; tubercular grinders |- . ^. 

 Calictis, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 564. 



The skuU elongate, rather narrow, much contracted in front of 

 the grain-case ; orbit rather incomplete ; the nose shelving ; crowTi 

 flat. The false giinders 1^; the first very small ; second compressed; 

 third trigonal, with a small internal and a small hinder lobe. The 

 flesh-tooth triangular, scarcely longer than broad in front, the inner 

 lobe on the front edge. Tubercular grinders transverse ; the first 

 subtrigonal, oblique, much broader than long ; the second very mi- 

 nute. The skull 3 inches long, and brain-cavity 1^ inch broad 

 behind. 



Calictis Smithii. B.M. 



Eeddish brown, very closely pale-grizzled, hair with red-brown 

 ends and subconical white bands ; feet and tip of tail black. 



Herpestes Smithii, Grat/, Loudon'' s Mag. N. Hist. 1837, i. p. 2 ; Pi-oc. 



Zool. Sac. 1851, p. 131, pi. 31. 

 CaUctis Smithii, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 665. 



Hab. Ceylon (A. Grace). 



M. Temminck, misled by some dealer, believes that this animal 



