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abroad during the daytime. Its food appears to be partly 

 animal and partly vegetable. 



IV. EROAD-BANDED CUSIMANSE. CROSSARCHUS FASCIATUS. 



Herpestes fascialus, Desmarest, Diet. Sci. Nat. vol. xxix. p. 58 



(1823). 

 Ichneumon tcenionotus^ Smith, S. African Qjart. Journ. vol. ii. 



p. 114 (1835). 

 Ariela tcenionota, Gray, Proc. Zcol. Soc. 1864, p. 565. 

 Crossarchus fasciatus, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 90 ■ 



Socage, J. Sci. Lisboa, ser. 2, vol. i. p. 180 (1889). 

 {Plate XXXII.) 

 Characters. — Readily distinguished from the last by the broad 

 bands on the back and the grey under surface. Size medium; 

 form stout ; tail rather more than half the length of the head 

 and body. General colour grizzled grey ; the hinder part of 

 the back marked with broad dark and light cross-bands, of 

 which about three and a half go to an inch. Longer hairs 

 annulated with long black and light rings, the base of the 

 latter being always rufous, but the tip either rufous or yellow. 

 Under-fur greyish-brown ; neck, chest, and under-parts of the 

 same grizzled grey as the shoulders ; feet and tail becoming 

 more or less completely black at their extremities. Length of 

 head and body, 12 to 13 inches; of tail, 7 to 8 inches. 



Distribution.— South-east Africa (Carfraria to Mozambique 

 and Nyasaland) ; West Africa (Angola). 



The stripes in this species are generally twelve to thirteen 

 in number ; and from the description of this and the preced- 

 ing form, it will be seen that the width of the stripes is depen- 

 dent on the length of the rings on the hairs. 



V. DYBOWSKI'S CUSIMANSE. CROSSARCHUS DYBOWSKII. 



Crossarchus dyboiuskii, Pousargues, Archiv. Mus. Paris, ser. 3, 

 vol. vi. p. 121 (1894). 



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