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tailed Ichneumon (Jchnewmia), but the head is much longer and the snout 
extends far in front of the lower lip. 
General colour very dark grizzled, or jet black dusted with white or 
yellow ; the head and neck are considerably paler than the body, owing to 
the finer and whiter annulations of the hairs ; the body fur is all annulated 
in various degrees, the hairs having one or two golden rings of various depth 
on their distal half ; the tail is much the colour of the head and neck, the 
rings on the hairs being whitish ; the legs and feet are almost jet black. 
The hairs of the whole body and tail agree in having a broad white band 
about the middle of their length, which is very conspicuous above the under 
fur when the hair is raised or parted ; the under fur is dark brownish grey 
with pale tips. 
Type 9. British Museum, No. 0.7.5.1. 
Measurements taken from the animal in the flesh :—Head and body 580 
millimetres, tail 370, fore-arm and hand 145, hind-foot 105, ear 37 by 36 
broad, nose to ear 112, nose to front of eye 57, eye opening 8, back of eye to 
ear (notch or meatus) 47; the snout extends in front of lower lip 23 
millimetres. 
A perpendicular line drawn from the front corner of the eye cuts the 


SKkuLy or Herpestes naso. 
Slightly less than natural size. 
back of the gape. Iris orange brown. The rhynarium in front measures 17 
millimetres in height, the breadth of the upper lappets of the nostrils is also 17, 
