368 On some African Zorils. 
median black dorsal stripe is broadly split on the posterior 
back, with a white area within it, this having generally again 
a truly median black line, so that at this point there are five 
longitudinal bands instead of three. Ears with but little 
white on them. 
Range. North Africa, from Algeria to the Heyptian Soudan; 
partly overlapping the range of Jetonya. 
The species of Peerlictis appear to be as follows :— 
1. P. vaillanti, Loche. 
Size largest. A» male skull 59:2 * mm. long by 36°2 mm. 
in mastoid breadth. 
Colour-pattern of medium distinctness. Ends of terminal 
tail-hairs black, 
Hab. Algeria and Tunis. 
2. P. libyca, Hempr. & Ehr. 
Size smaller. A male skull 49°3 x 26:9 mm. 
Uolour-pattern very irregular and indistinct. Tip of tail 
black. 
Hab. Lower Egypt. 
3. P. multivittata, Wagn. 
Schreb. Saéiug. Supp. ii. p. 221, pl. exxxiii. B (1840). 
Syn. Ictonyx frenata, Sund., 1842. 
Size smallest. Male skull 47:2 x 24°6 mm. 
Colour-pattern rather more defined than in libyea.  Tail- 
tip white. 
Hab. Egyptian Soudan. 
There cannot be the slightest doubt that Wagner’s mu/ti- 
vittata is the same as Sundevall’s frenata, although the 
former’s artist has erroneously given the animal a broadly 
white-ended ear, such as is found in true Lctonye. 
4. P. oralis, sp. n. 
Size rather smaller than in vatllant?, larger than in Lébyea, 
an adult male skull 55 x 32°6 mm. Uolour-pattern very ill- 
defined, about as in “ébyea. White frontal band narrow ; 
chin-band scarcely developed. Upper lips and a small bit of 
the edge of the ear white as usual. Long hairs of tail white, 
those at the end with black tips for the terminal 3 inches 
below ; wool-hairs of tail white basally, blackish terminally. 
* Condylo-basal length. 
