BniNOf+ALIDJi. j^yi 



i", ;!; J^"^««t «^«Uen„Part more like 803 a. The flesh-tooth is similar 

 to tnat 01 u. penicdlata. 



3. Cynictis? fimtriata. 



Fur very pale, whitish ; hairs white at the base, silky, with black 

 and white bauds and a white tip ; below dirty white. The black and 



^^d tCf r ^'f^ ^"'' '^. '^'' ^'^ ^'-^ ^^«^^^^- ' ^he lateral hairs 

 and the tuft at the tip are tipped by an isabeUa baud. Tlie feet 

 pale brown, dotted witli white. 



Length of body and head 11 inches. 



Herpestes fimbriatus, Tenwi. Esq. Zool. p. 112 



Cj-nictis flmbiiata, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 573. 



Hah. India (? Temm., Mus. Leijden) 



The account of the tail would lead us to believe that this is a 

 s'^;;t bla^k.*'^ ^'^^-^ '' ^'^* ^^-^' -- - *^« -^ young 



4. Cynictis leptura. p -^ 



whl^'e" ^,1^J'?'^°' ^^°7-f "f l^d; hps, chin, and tip of the iaU 

 M h ite taU fulvous, grizzled with chestnut-brown, hair with a broad 

 central chestnut-brown ring ; underside yellowish white 



Cynictis Levaillantii, var., Gerrard, Cat. Bones B. M. p. 77. 



Hah. South Africa, in barren places. 



The skuU of Ci,.ucth leptura (803., A. Smith) is very like that 

 of C.penunUata (803 c); the forehead is convex before and be- 

 tween the^ eyes, and the teeth are very similar; but the flesh-tooth 

 IS much shorter compared with tlie widtli of the front margin more 

 equa ly triangular, as the front lobe on the inner edge is longe; com- 

 pared ^nth the rest of the tooth; the hinder tubercular fs rather 

 A\-ider and more like the fron^ one. 



Fam. 9. RHINOGALID.^. 



Tubercular grinders two on each side of the upper, and one on 

 each side of the lower jaw. Nose produced, underside convex 

 covered with short adpressed hairs, without any central bald lon-i- 

 tudiual groove. The toes linear, separate, extended. Claws blunt 

 fore one often elongated. Soles of the hind feet bald, or slightly 

 covered Avith hair. The fur rigid, grizzled. Tail not ringed. 

 Viverridse, § Rhinogaleacea, Graij, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 57.3. 



Danbenton, in the description of the Suricate (Hist Nat xui 

 p. /o). observes. " Les narines ressemblont a cellcs du chien ;'mais 



