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abroad during the daytime. Its food appears to be partly 
animal and partly vegetable. 
IV. EBROAD-BANDED CUSIMANSE. CROSSARCHUS FASCIATUS. 
Lerpestes fasciatus, Desmarest, Dict. Sci. Nat. vol. xxix. p. 58 
(1823). 
Lchneumon tenionotus, Smith, S. African Qart. Journ. vol. ii. 
Pp. 114 (1835). 
Ariela tenionota, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, D- 565- 
Crossarchus fasciatus, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, pi OC 
Bocage, J. Sci. Lisboa, ser. 2, vol. i. p. 180 (1889). 
(Plate XXXT/.) 
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. Gcieral 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 (Caffraria 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 dybowskit, Pousargues, Archiv. Mus. Paris, ser. 3, 
vol. vi. p. 121 (1894). 
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