NO. 1883 NEW CARNIVORE FROM Al-RICA MILLER 487 



note that a fourth upper molar is not present in any of the eight 

 skulls seen. 



Measurements: Type: head and body, 550; tail, 281; hind foot, 

 137; ear from crown (dry), 105. Skull: condylobasal length, 113.6; 

 basilar length, 106.8 ; zygomatic breadth, 64.8 ; mastoid breadth, 47.6 ; 

 breadth of braincase, 43.4; postorbital constriction, 29.0; interorbital 

 constriction, 23.0; breadth of rostrum over canines, 18.6; depth of 

 braincase (median), 30.8; mandible, 86.2; maxillary toothrow exclu- 

 sive of incisors, 44.4 ; mandibular toothrow exclusive of incisors, 



51-6. 



■ Specimens examined: Eight, the seven already referred to, and an 

 adult taken at Taveta. British East Africa, in 1889, by Dr. W. L. 

 Abbott. 



Remarks: The specimens do not vary noticeably among them- 

 selves. In color the back is sometimes more bufly than in the type, 

 owing to a more free appearance at surface of the ochraceous-bufif 

 underfur. Equally slight differences in the exact shade of bufif of 

 underparts are also to be found. The pattern of marking of the 

 tail is strictly uniform in all the skins. In cranial and dental char- 

 acters there are no variations worthy of note. 



