2 20 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



Characters. — General colour greyish-brown, with large black 

 ish spots or blotches, not unfrequently becoming brownish at 

 the centre ; tail long and cylindrical, with the whitish rings 

 shorter than the black ones, and the tip black ; hind-feet 

 dark. 



Distribution. — South Africa, and northwards on the east coast 

 through Natal and Mozambique to Abyssinia. 



V. THE PARDINE GENET. GENETTA PARDINA. 



Genetta pardina, Geoffroy, Mag. Zool. 1832,. pi. viii. ; Gray, 



Cat. Carniv. Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 51 (1869); Bocage, J. 



Sci. Lisbon, ser. 2, vol. i. p. 177 (1889). 

 Viverra genettoides, Temminck, Esquisses Zool. p. 89 (1853); 



Matschie, Mittheil. deutsch. Schutzgebieten, vol. vi. art. 



3, p. 11 (1893); id., Mittheil. Nat. Mus. Liibeck, ser. 2, 



vol. i. p. 133 (1894). 

 Genetta serva/ina } Pucheran, Rev. Mag. Zool. vol. vii. p. 154 



(i855)- 

 Genetta fe/diana, Du Chaillu, Proc. Boston Soc. vol. vii. p. 302 



(i860). 



Genetta ango/ensis, Bocage, J. Sci. Lisboa, vol. ix. p. 29 (1882). 



Characters. — Colour typically yellowish- or greyish-brown, with 



three or four longitudinal rows of black spots more or less 



brownish at their centres ; tail long and short-haired, with 



elongated reddish or black rings and short light ones, and a 



black tip ; feet and posterior surface of hind-legs brown. 



Gray remarks " that specimens vary considerably in the size 



of the spots; in some they are brown with black edges, in 



others almost uniformly black ; but I can see no characters by 



which they can be separated." Herr Matschie, who appears 



to regard the dark form described as Viverra genettoides as a 



distinct species (with which Genetta servalina is probably iden- 



ical), states that specimens from the Cameruns show a long 



