220 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 
Characters.—General col@@f 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, pl. viii. ; Gray, 
Cat. Carniv. Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 51 (1869); Bocage, J. 
Sci. Lisboa, ser. 2, vol. i. p. 177 (1889). 
Viverra genettoides, Vemminck, Esquisses Zool. p. 89 (1853); 
Matschie, Mittheil. deutsch. Schutzgebieten, vol. vi. art. 
3, p. 11 (1393); 1d., Mittheil. Nat: Mus. Libeck,*sen 2 
vol. i. p. 133 (1894). 
Genetta servalina, Pucheran, Rev. Mag. Zool. vol. vii. p. 154 
(1855). 
Genetta feldiana, Du Chaillu, Proc. Boston Soc. vol. vii. p. 302 
(1860). 
Genetta angolensis, 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, anda 
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 
