8. ICHNEUMIA. 163 



inhabits Cape Coast and Guinea. He complains of the shortness of 

 my diagnosis ; but says himself it is well characterized by a shorter 

 but nearly identical one (see Temm. Esq. Zool. p. 98). (See Calo- 

 gale nyuJa and V. nepahnsis, p. 158). 



7. ARIELA. 



Body elongate. Tail slender, elongated, snbcyhndrical, thickest 

 at the base. Toes 5 . 5. Skull elongate. Face short. Teeth 40 ; 

 false grinders -f . f ; flesh-tooth trigonal, rather broader than long, 

 inner lobe long, rounded, on front edge ; tubercular gi'inders f . ^, 



Helogale (part.), Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 308. 

 Aiiela, Grai/, P. Z. S.' 1864, p. 565. 



Ariela tsenionota. B.il. (skull only). 



Hair of head, underpart of neck, and lower part of the extremi- 

 ties short, elsewhere pretty long; centre of the face, forehead, crown, 

 cheeks, and sjjace between the ej^es and ears black, freely pencilled 

 with white. Muzzle, upper and lower lips, and space under lower 

 jaw light chestnut ; outer surface of the ears brownish, inner surface 

 dirty reddish white ; back and sides of neck, shoidders, anterior 

 part of back and sides, and outer surface of anterior extremities finely 

 pencilled black and white ; the rest of back and upper part of sides 

 banded transversely deep black and yellowish white or light yellow- 

 brown ; flanks and outer surface of hinder extremities towards the 

 body pencilled didl black and yellowish white ; lower part of neck, 

 breast, belly, and lower surface of extremities black ; tail slender, 

 thickest towards the root, for about two-thirds of its length pencilled 

 black-brown and pale ferruginous, last third nearly uniform black. 

 Length of head and body 15 inches, of tail ~i inches. 



Helogale t.-enionota, Grai/, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 308. 

 Hei-pestes tajnionotus, A. Smith, 8. African Journ. p. 52, 1834. 

 Herpestes zebra (partly), Schinz, St/n. Mamm. i. p. 371. 

 Ichneumon ttenionotus, A. Smith, S. Afr. Quart. Joum. p. 50. 

 Ariela tjenionota, Gran, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 565. 



Hab. South Africa : Natal (A. S^niih). 



The flesh-tooth broader than long ; the inner lobe long, rounded, 

 on the front edge. The fh'st false grinder conical, compressed ; the 

 second trigonal, with an internal tubercle. The tubercular gi-indcrs 

 transverse ; the first large, with a long internal lobe, rather thinner, 

 narrower than the outer edge, and rounded withiji. Orbit incom- 

 plete behind. SkuU elongate. 



8. ICHNEUMIA. 



Body compressed. Legs rather long. Fur grizzled. Tail conical, 

 bushy. Toes 5 . 5. Claws rather elongate, sharp. The greater part 

 of the soles of the hind feet are covered with hair. Teeth 40 ; false 

 grinders f . J ; flesh-tooth triangular ; tubercular grinders ^ . 2. 



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