On some African Zorils. 367 
Skull: greatest length 13:9; basi-sinual length 10°7 ; 
zygomatic breadth 9°8; intertemporal breadth 4; breadth of 
brain-case 7°3 ; mastoid breadth 8:1; palato-sinual length 5°5 ; 
maxillary tooth-row 5; front of p* to back of m’ 3:2. 
Hab, Santa Fé Province, Argentine. Type from Esperanza. 
Type. Adult male in alcohol. B.M. no. 1.2.4.1. Col- 
lected by E. Lindner. One specimen. 
Just a shade smaller than the two smallest species known— 
E, diminutus, Osg., of Bahia, and EZ. punicus, of Puna,—and 
distinguishable from both, apart from geographical considera- 
tions, by its comparatively broad intertemporal region, which 
forms a much less well-marked waist to the skull. All other 
described species are decidedly larger. 
Lastly, in Brazil we have the large dark E. brasiliensis, 
Desm., found from the Amazon to Rio Grande do Sul, while 
the little #. diminutus, Osg., is as yet only known from the 
Rio Preto, Bahia. 
L.—On the Group of African Zorils represented by Ictonyx 
libyca. By OxtpFieLD THoMAS and Martin A. C. 
HINTON. 
(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 
In connection with the determination of a Western specimen 
of this group we have noticed not only that the group itself 
contains a larger number of species than has been recognized, 
but also that its characters—as contrasted with the capensis 
vroup—are so much weightier than has been previously 
observed that it clearly ought to be separated as a distinct 
geuus from the ordinary Zorils, to which all the previously 
existing names are referable. Consequently a new name is 
needed for the libyca group. 
PQCILICTIS, gen. nov. 
Genotype, P. libyca (Ictonyax libyca, Hempr. & Ehr.). 
Skull shortened; greatly expanded across the mastoid 
region. Bulle hypertrophied. 
Palms and soles hairy except on the actual pads, the region 
between the pads naked in Jctonyz; pads themselves smaller, 
more sharply defined and separate than in that genus. 
Pattern of coloration about as in Ictonya, except that the 
