3G8 On some African Zorih. 



iiieMian black dorsal stripe is broadly split on the posterior 

 back, with a white area within it, this haviii;^ generally a.raiii 

 a truly median Idack line, so that at this point thoro are five 

 lonujitiidinal bands instead of three. Ears with but little 

 white on them. 



Itatige. North Africa, from Alj^eria to theEgyptian Soudan; 

 partly overlapping the range ot Ictonyx. 



The species of Puicilicfis 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 terntinal 

 tail-hairs black. 



Ilab. Algeria and Tunis. 



2. P. libycd, Hempr. & Ehr. 



Size smaller. A male skull -iO'.'i x 209 mm. 

 Colour-pattern very irregular and indistinct. Tip of (ail 

 black. 



J lab. Lower Egypt. 



3. P. multivittata, Wagn. 



Scbreb. Siiug. Supp. ii. p. 221, pi. cxxxiii. B (1840). 

 fiyn. let onyx fretiata, Siind., 1842. 



Size smallest. Male skull 47-2 x 24-(» mm. 



Colour-pattern rather more detined than in Ubycj. Tail- 

 tip white. 



Hub. Egyptian Soudan. 



Tiiere cannot be the slightest doubt that Wagner's multi- 

 vittata is the same as Sundevall's frenata, althuugh the 

 former's artist has erroneously given the animal a broadly 

 white-ended ear, such as is found in true Ictoivjx. 



4. P. oralis, sp. n. 



Size rather smaller than in vaillanti, larger than in libyca^ 

 an adult male .skull 55 X 32-b mm. Colour-pattern very ill- 

 defined, about as in libyca. 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. 



• Cond^'lo-basal lougth. 



