24C African Zouloyy. 



ferent individuals. I have as yot met with no specin.en in wliicli tlie 

 skin of the face whs complete. Judging from the appearance of the skins 

 I have seen, I should be inclined to regard this species as approachiug 

 in figure the Felis Chaus of Guildenstadt. 



Fam. VIVERRIDiE. 



Genus Viverra. 



Viverra maculata. Gray. (Square-spotted Genet ) Colour 

 grey-brown, with a brown streak down the back, commencing 

 narrow just between the bladebones and widening as it reaches 

 the tail, slightly erectile like a crest, with three interrupted 

 narrow streaks on the back of the neck, reaching over the 

 shoulder and extending along the sides of the back in three 

 series of sjiots, the spots of the two higher series square, those 

 of the hi<;hest series the largest and nearer together, of the 

 lower series roundish ; the sides of the belly with scattered 

 black-brown spots ; shoulder and hind-legs with moderate 

 " roundish black spots ; beneath pale whitish, with a few scat- 

 tered small dark spots. Head grey-brown, with a dark rough 

 place on each side the nose and a small one on the inner angle 

 of the eyebrow, a long white spot before the eye, and six small 

 blackish spots between the ears, in front of the face, placed in 

 two groups of three each. Tail reaching to the ears, rather 

 furry, triangular, broader beneath, with seven black bands, in- 

 creasing in breadth towards the end. Feet black-brown. 

 Inhabits Northern Africa. 



Viverra binotata, Teram. (Two-spotted Civet.) Colour 

 grey, with scattered black spots of unequal size, and two white 

 spots on the top of the shoulders; tail longer than the body, 

 spotted and ringed with black. 



Inhabits Ashantce. 



Genus Cryptoprocta, Bennett. 

 Plantigrade ; foes webbed almost to their extremities, five on 

 each foot, armed luith claws more or less retractile, on the fore- 

 feet sharp, and resembling those of cats; an anal pouch. 



Cryptoprocta typicus. General appearance approaches that 

 oi Paradoxurus; but the fur is short, adprcsscd and of uniform 

 colour, and the tail is slender, cylindrical, and equally hairy 

 all round, rendering- it probable that this organ is not subject to 

 being curled in the manner usual to that genus. In the young 

 individual belonging to the Zoological Society, " the dentary 

 characters could not be ascertained, its teeth being only of the 

 deciduous class. Its anatomical structure resembles, in the 

 shortness of the intestine?; the size and direction of the csecuni ; 



