2. MTINGOS. J 75 



** Back cross-handed ; tail obscurely ringed. 



2. Mungos fasciatus. B.M. 



Blackisli, minutely grizzled with ashy ; back and nimp washed 

 witii redfhsh, Mith many blackish and white cross bands : nose, feet 

 and end of tail blackish. 



Young paler, obscurely cross-banded. 



Mungos fasciatus, Gratj, Cat. Mamni. B. M. ; P. Z. S 1864 p 576 

 Viverra ichneumou, >^chreb. Stiuyeth. t. 116 (from Buff.) 

 Herpestes fasciatus, Dcstn. Diet. S. N. xxix. p. 58. 

 Herpestes mimgo, De.sm. Mamm. p. 211. 

 Herpestes zebra, R'lippell, Fauna Abyss, t. 9. I 2. 

 Kjzeua sm-icata, CltiUlren, Clapperton's Trav. Append 

 Herpestes (Mungos) fasciatus, Oqilby, P. Z. S. 1835, p 102 

 Mangusta mungo, Fisch. 8yn. Mamm. p. 16.3. 



ffab Africa: Cape of Good Hope (A. Smith); Lake Tschad (Clap- 

 perton) ; (^amhm(RendaU) ; Abyssinia (caUed "Gottoni ") (Biippdl). 



The not quite adult skull is rather elongate, ventricose behind, the 

 contraction of the brain-case being in a line with the hinder part of 

 the orbit The orbit imperfect behind. The zygomatic arch mo- 

 derately bowed out, the more convex part being nearer the hinder 

 end The nose tapering on the side and above, making a shelving 

 forehead and a shghtly arched crown-Une. The false molars arl 

 only two on each side, there being a short space between them and the 

 base of the canine ; the second false grinder triangular, with a good- 

 sized lobe on the inner part of the hinder edge, and with only a very 

 rudimentary point on the hinder outer margin. The flesh-tooth 

 triangular the front edge being as broad as the outer one, with a 

 large, thick, rounded inner lobe. The first tubercular grinder trans- 

 verse, short, narrowed on the inner edge; the second similar, but 

 smaller. ' 



Length of the skuU 2^ inches; width of the brain-case 1 inch 

 ot the zygomatic arch 1| inch. 



Lower jaw rather sle'nder, with a rounded angle under the con- 

 dyle. Ihe false gnnders f ; the fii-st compressed, sharp-edged, 

 lubercular grinders rather large, with two high lateral anterior and 

 one large posterior rather high prominence. 



3. Mungos adailensis. 



" Cinereo-flavicans, pilis nigro-fusco annulatis, vertice cerviceque 

 nigro-schistaceis, dorso faseiis transversis obsoletis nigricantibus • 

 abdomme dilutioro, m flaWdum vergente ; antepcdibus obscurioribus • 

 Cauda corjiore parum longiore, apice attenuata hand pcnicillata 

 dorso concolon, in ultimo triente nigra, plantis denudatis ; ocuUs 

 pupilla vertico-elliptica, iride fusca. 



"Long, tota 22|, caudaj 15 poll." 



Herpestes adailensis, Jfciiylin, Pderm. Mittlieil. 1861, p. 17- Nova 



Act. Acad. Leap, xxviii. p. o, t. 2. f. 4 (skidl). ' 



Mungos adailensis. Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 576.' 

 ffab. AdaU coast {HevejUn). 



