the Mascarene Viverrid Galidictis. 121 



Mungotictis substriatus, sp. n. (PI. VII. fig. 4.) 



General colour of the back and sides dark olive-grey, due 

 to the intimate speckling of the coat with black and buff- 

 grey, the individual hairs being alternately annulated with 

 those colours, the tip being black. Under reflected light the 

 pale penultimate annuli of some of the hairs at least shine 

 with a whiter lustre. On the back and sides there are ten 

 indistinct, faint rusty brown, narrow longitudinal bands, all 

 narrower than the interspaces. Of these, the first, the 

 second, and the fourth, counting from the back downwards, 

 are just traceable forward on to the shoulders, but not 

 beyond. Posteriorly they fade away towards the root of the 

 tail. The third stripe from the summit is much shorter. It 

 extends only from about the middle of the body, where upon 

 one side it joins the second stripe immediately above it, and 

 vanishes behind on the rump. The fifth and lowest stripe is 

 very faint and just traceable forwards on to the side of the « 

 shoulder. Underfill - dusky brown. 



The head is slightly darker than the body and more finely 

 speckled. There is a conspicuous dirty white spot over the 

 inner angle of each eye. 



The fore legs externally from the elbow are yellowish buff, 

 the black speckling of the hairs being hardly in evidence. 

 The hind legs are much the same tint as the body as far 

 down as the heels, the foot being mostly yellowish buff. 



The tail is much the same tint as the body throughout, the 

 hairs alternately banded broadly black and yellowish- or 

 buff-grey. Ohin, throat, chest, belly, and inside of limbs 

 uniformly yellowish buff, paler on the chin and throat, richer 

 posteriorly, especially on the anterior edge of the hind limbs. 

 A conspicuous whorl of hairs near the middle of the throat 

 and a pair of whorls on the fore part of the chest, the junction 

 of the streams of hairs forming a transverse crest behind the 

 interramal area, across the clavicular region, and down the 

 fore part of the sternal region as in Gafidia elegaas. 



Measurements of dried skin. — Head and body 850 mm. ; 

 tail 625; hind foot 150. 



Log. Madagascar. 



Type (in Brit. Mus.), the specimen presented by Mr. B. 

 Muller to the Zoological Society 16. ix. 86, which died 

 20. ix. 86. 



Galidictis vittatus was described by J. E. Gray as 

 follows : — " Grey, black and white grizzled ; back and sides 



