17G Mr. Iv. I. Pocock on a 



silvery white, oxoej)t tliat paralVontals show throuf;li bhickisli 

 uM vertical iiait. Thorax showing two very wide heavy 

 bhick vitt;e. Seutelliiin with faint sheen of silvery. Abiio- 

 lueii with bases of segments 2 to 4 silvery white, more broadly 

 so on sides and venter, the rest shiniii<>; bhick, but with iaint 

 sheen of silvery continuation in phices as seen in very 

 oblique lights. Legs bhick, tibiaj more or less reddish ; bases 

 of legs and pleuiio silvery. Wings lightly smoky yellowish, 

 tegulai j)early white. 



Ilolotype, no. l'J1177 U.S. N. M. 



XIV. — A new Genus of African Mongoose'', with a Sote 

 on Galeriscus. ^y ii. I. PocuCK, F.R.S. 



Ctnictis selousi was described by Mr. de Winton * on the 

 evidence of a skull |)ieked up by Mr. Helous near Bulawayo ; 

 and since the cranial and dcnt;il characters agreed tolerably 

 closely with those of C. penicillaia, the type of the genus 

 C't/iiiclisj no alternative generic reference was open to the 

 describer. 



►Subsequently Mr. P. C Reid sent to the British jMuseum 

 a complete specimen caught on the Liuyanti River, and 

 Mr. de Winton published an illustrated descri|jtion f of its 

 colour, pointing out that the blackness of the legs and the 

 absence of the rufous tint on the body confirm the skuil- 

 characters in differentiating C. selousi trom C. peincillata. 



In 1900 ^Ir. C. II. B. Grant seemed the species at Wood- 

 bush, in the north-eastern Transvaal, as recorded by Messrs. 

 Thomas and >Schwaini|, and in 1U09 Mr. E. C. Chubb § 

 gave a list of several examples taken at Bulawayo and 

 Inyaniandhloven, in Matabeleland. 



I am not aware of any later rccoids or published particulars 

 relating to the species. 



The marked likeness in colour between C//nictis selousi^ 

 Ichneumia alhiatula, and some species of Bdtojale — e. g., 

 J3. nigripes — induced me to examine the British Museum's 

 specimens, consisting of the skins procured by Reid and 

 Giant ; and since Cynictis, Ichneumia, and Bdtogule can 

 easily be distinguished by the number of the digits, the feet 



* Ann. & Maj?. Nat. Hist. fO) xviii. p. 469 (1896). See also W. L. 

 Scliiter, 'Fauna of South Africa, Mammals,' vol. i. p. 75 (IKOlj. 

 t Proc. Zool. Soc. rjOl, vol. i. pt. 1. pp. 2-3, pi. i. 

 \ Ibid. IWB, p. 588. § Ibid. lOU'J, p. 118. 



