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served in the Collection of the British Museum : that specimen was 

 said to have been sent from the Cape of Good Hope, but this must 

 have been a mistake, as it is quite unknown to Dr. Burchell, Dr. 

 A, Smith, Mr. Smut, Dr. Wahlberg, or other zoologists who have 

 written on the animals of South Africa. 



Mr. Grace informs me that it is an inhabitant of the interior part 

 of Ceylon. It is by far the most beautiful species of the genus. 



The second is a new species of Cynictis, which I propose tp-jicall 



Cynictis Maccarthi^. 



Teeth normal. Red brown ; hair elongate, flaccid, pale brown, 

 with a broad, black subterminal band, and a long whitish brown 

 tip ; of hands and feet shorter. Feet blackish brown, hair white 

 tipped. Claws elongate, slender, compressed, especially of the two 

 middle toes of the fore feet. Tail redder ; hair elongate, one- 

 coloured, red. Ears rounded, hairy. 



Hub. Ceylon ; Jaffna, North of Ceylon {A. Grace, Esq.). 



This species somewhat resembles Cynictis melanura m general 

 colour, but the hairs are much longer, not so adpressed, and, when 

 the individual colour of the hair is examined, most distinct. 



I have proposed to name this interesting animal after Mrs. Mac- 

 Carthy, the wife of the Treasurer of the Colony and the daughter of 

 Mr. Hawes, the Assistant Secretary to the Colonies, who is much 

 interested in the study of natural history, and has kindly sent me 

 several very interesting natural productions from Ceylon. 



The skull differs from all the other Herpestes that I have examined, 

 in the back of the nape being deeply and sharply notched instead of 

 transversely truncated, the notch in the living animal being filled up 

 with a cartilaginous septum. 



3. Descriptions of fifty-two new species of the genus 



MiTRA, from the Cumingian Collection. 



By Arthur Adams, F.L.S. etc. 



1. Mitra serotina, a. Adams. M. testd oblongo-fusiformi, 

 acuminatd, serotind ; spird productd, longitudinaliter plicatd, pli- 

 cis confertis, undulatis; transversim sulcatd, sulcis subdistantibus ; 

 aperturd antice dilatatd ; columelld quadriplicatd, basi contortd et 

 recurvd ; labro intus Urate, margine recto, antice subangulato, 



Hab. Marquesas. 



A light orange species, vrith a produced spire, and the outer lip pro- 

 duced and rather angulated anteriorly. 



2. Mitra cratitia, A. Adams. M. testd oblongo-fusi/ormi, 

 albidd, nitidd, liris elevatis transversis, acutis, et lineis elevatis, 

 longitudinalibus , decussatim ornatd; interstitiis suhtilissinie lon- 

 gitudinaliter striatis ; aperturd intus aurantiacd ; columelld plicis 

 quinque instnictd. 



Hab. South Africa. 



The shell from which the description is taken is worn, and not in 



