58 EINAR LONNDERG, MAMMALS COLLECTED BY THE SWEDISH ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITION ETC. 
Hyenide. 
Crocotta panganensis LONNBERG. 
LonneerG: Mammals p. 18, in Ssésrepr’s Kilimandjaro Meru Exp. 1908. 
We had bad luck with Spotted Hyenas because our steel-traps were too weak, 
and they wrenched themselves free again. But after my return home Mr. R. J. 
CUNNINGHAME kindly sent me a skull of a male Spotted Hyena from South Sotik, 
British East Afrika. The skin had unfortunately been lost. This skull proves to be 
of the broad type, according to CaBRERA’s' division of the species, the breadth across 
the upper carnassials being even greater than the length of the lower tooth-row ex- 
elusive of incisors. The ratio between zygomatic breadth and condyloincisive length 
is 72 %. The palatal opening is very broad (conf. table of measurements below). 
It is of course difficult to base the identification of a Spotted Hyena on a 
skull only but this skull resembles rather closely that of the type of C. panganensis.* 
Most of the small differences may be explained as individual variation or as due to 
difference in age. The upper carnassial tooth of the skull from the Sotik is con- 
siderably smaller than that of the type of C. panganensis, but a young cotype of 
the latter has almost as small carnassial. 
Basal ‘length of ‘skull 202) sey es wes) tae Be toire Tel thiweh onc Aw ete” Sie ae road LEVEN 
Condyloincisive length ....... Rs MPM ho kj ts sey ER Seo Gard ty CA Ie 238 =» 
Greatest zygomatic breadth ........ 2.4 s SUG IG “bi Gives reas feck aes i eee wii ronal gee, 
Least interorbital: widthis., . sie. -sketsaigeca “et beeen) opseae Pie wine We 53» 
Distance between upper ends of foramina infraorbitalia ... +... 2+ +e eee 57» 
Least postorbital width of skull . . . - 6 ee eee ee ee ee ee ee ee ore, SALONTES 
Width of palatal opening at sutura palatopterygoidea .....+..+4... is) ee se OO) mee 
Distance between outer sides of outer upper incisors . +... 6 ee ee ee 36» 
Distance between the bulle at the foramen at the middle of the inner side .... 28 » 
Breadth across upper carnassials® .. . -. 6 22 + se ete ee ee ew eee 107.» 
Length of upper carnassial . . - . . ss = 6 6 2 2 oe + te ee ew ew we 34> 
IDSs) 2 Th OM AN Qulcmin a ones Oo SNaMe AM aeons FAROE SL en Odo) aan nor « . 2 
Length of lower carnassial - - . - . + 2 27 ee se es ewe ew ee ww oe 8, (ey Oe 
Length of upper tooth row exclusive of incisors. . . .-..... +s. see eee 97,5 » 
Length of lower tooth row exclusive of incisors. ..... - erie ee eee ee he 104.» 
' Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1910, p. 95. 
* 1 take this opportunity to correct an unfortunate misprint in my paper quoted above. In the table 
of measurements |. c. p. 19 is written »Basilar length of skull 249 mm.», shall be 229 mm. 
‘ This measurement corresponds to that of the type of C. panganensis, but that quoted in the table of 
measurements of this species (1. c. p. 19) »distance between upper cernassial teeth at their posterior end 91,3 
min.», is another measurement taken as quoted at the extreme ends of these teeth! 
