94 African Zoology. 



Genelta Fossa. (The Fossanc.) Ground colonr yellowish 

 ■white or reddish grey ; the middle of the muzzle, the forehead, 

 and the upper parts of the sides of the head, variegated brown 

 red and grey ; over the eyes a yellowish white spot. From the 

 hind head to the tail four black bands, which, from the middle 

 of the back are formed by close set distinct spots ; the iippcr 

 and lateral parts of the neck and of the body are marked by 

 black spots or stripes ; the shoulders, the sides of the breast, 

 and belly, and the outer sides of thighs, similarly variegated ; 

 flanks with about three waved perpendicular black stripes. 

 Upper lip, lower jaw, throat, breast, belly, and a portion of 

 the lower surface of the tail towards iis root, dirty white ; the 

 rest of the tail, and outsides of thighs, variegated red grey and 

 dirty white ; the upper surface of the tail banded transversely 

 with a rufous colour. The anterior extremities, the inner sides 

 of the thighs, the hinder legs, and all the feet, dirty white or 

 yellowish. Length from nose to root of tail seventeen inches ; 

 length of tail eight inches and a half. 



Inhabits Madagascar. — Africa and Asia. ? 



Vivcrra Fossa, Gm. Syst. Nat.9]. La Fossanc, Buff. <, xiii. 

 The Fossan Weasel, Pcnn. Quad. 75. 



Genetta Tigrina, Gniel. (Cape Genet.) Hair rather long, 

 particularly on the middle of the back ; surface colour yellow- 

 ish white or yellowish grey, variegated with black stripes and 

 spots. The distinct stripes are three in number, and com- 

 mence near the hindhead ; the centre one extends along the 

 middle of the neck and near the middle of the back becomes 

 of a very deep black, which it preserves till it reaches the root 

 of the tail, where it terminates ; the other two, one on each 

 side, run obliquely backwards, and terminate on the posterior 

 edges of the shoulders, being there of greater breadth than else- 

 where. The spots are numerous upon the back and sides, 

 disposed somewhat in longitudinal rows, those of the upper- 

 most rows largest. Extremities, excepting near the body, 

 black, each with more or less of its anterior surface, reddish 

 white mottled with small black spots : centre of forehead black- 

 ish brown ; sides of head pencilled black and white ; under 

 each eye a large white spot, another behind each nostril, and 

 the space between them deep black ; external surface of ears 

 black at the base, reddish white elsewhere ; internal surface 

 nearly hare, excepting towards the circumference, where each 

 has a thin coating of whitish hairs. Lender part dull greyish 

 white, pencilled or mottled with small black spots. Tail an- 

 nulated alternately black and white, the black rings broadest ; 

 the tip black. Eyes brown. Woolly hair, a dull smoke colour. 



