On a new Genet from British East Africa. 3G5 



breadth 26'8 ; nasals 17'3 ; interorbital breadth 7; least 

 breadth between parietal ridges 11'2 ; breadth between ante- 

 rior lij)S of meatus 2G ; length of exposed up;)er area of bulla 

 ()'2 ; diastema 13'8; greatest diameter of bulla 17*6; lesser 

 diameter, from anterior lip of meatus, 12*7 ; length of upper 

 molar series 6*5. 



Hah. Palestine. Type from the Dead Sea. A skin from 

 Jebel Usdum. 



Tiipe. Old male in spirit. B.M. no. G4. 8. 17. 23. Col- 

 lected by the Rev. H. 13. Tristram. 



Four skulls collected by Canon Tristram are all closely 

 similar to each other in size and in the great development of 

 the bullae. 



LXI. — A new Genet from British East Africa. 

 ^y Oldfield Thomas. 



Mr. C. Steuakt Betton, who has been a constant contributor 

 to the National Collections during the last few years, has 

 recently presented to the Museum a further small collection 

 of East-African mammals. Among these there occurs a 

 Genet allied to the West-African O. servalina, but evidently 

 distinct. I propose to call it 



Genetta Bettoni, sp. n. 



Size markedly smaller than in G. servalina. Character of 

 markings very much as in that species and the back similarly 

 without a central crest or black line ; but the general tone is 

 lighter, more fawn, less heavily blackened, and the simple 

 spots on the anterior half of the body, between the withers and 

 loins, are replaced by irregular rings, black, with fawn- 

 coloured centres. Under surface from chin to anus smoky 

 bufiy, spotted with black ; the throat yellower than the belly, 

 but without the marked ventral blackening found in G. serva- 

 lina. Face coloured much as in the allied species ; the lio-ht 

 n.aik on the sides of the muzzle less distinct than usual. 

 Back of ears black except their anterior margins, which are 

 naked. Nape with four narrow, irregular, black, longitudinal 

 lines, supplemented by additional elongated spots outside 

 them. Fore limbs dark brown to the toes; hind limbs 

 greyish brown, the upper surface of the feet grizzled smoky. 

 In G. servalina both fore and hind feet are black. Tail 

 cylindrical, not shaggy ; black, with nine narrow well-defined 

 w lute rings, each on the upperside about one third of the 



