Mdiniiuds from Norlli-easl. Africa. 301 



position, between the ^vey II. Atkinsoni of Somaliland and 

 the more rufous J I. xtndidata of British and German Elast 

 Al'rica ; but the unusually fine speekling of the body-cohiur 

 is peculiar to it. In dinitition it corresponds closely with 

 JI. Atkinson if and differs equally from the broad-toothed 

 //. hi r tula. 



Ictonyx capensis shoo;, subs p. n. 



Size largo, sliglitly exceeding tliat of true capensiti, tliere- 

 fore markedly different from the small erijthreoi, de Wint., of 

 Suakin. General marking normal, the black lines clearly 

 defined, little softened by isolated wiiite hairs or by the ti[)s 

 of the hairs of the white areas overhanuinff them. Frontal 

 spot of medium size, larger than in true capensis, about an 

 inch long by half an inch bioad, running back in a point 

 towards the crown, separated on each side from the post- 

 orbital white mark by about half an inch of pure sharply- 

 defined black. In eri/th-ece the median white spot more 

 nearly approaches the lateral ones. Outer white stripes of 

 nape markedly broader than the inner. Tail rather less 

 white than in other subspecies. 



Skull apj)areiitly rather more elongate in general outline 

 than in some of the allied forms. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in flesh) : — 



Head and body 395 mm.; tail 298; hind foot 64; ear 30. 



Skull : condylo-basal length 69 ; basal length 63 ; greatest 

 breadth 45 ; intcrorbital breadth DS ; mastoid breadth 36*3 ; 

 palatal length 32*3 ; length of upper // on outer edge 7"7. 



A younger male skull, with nasal sutures still open, 

 measures 66*5 mm. in condylo-basal length, and a female of 

 about equal immaturity 62*5. 



Hah. Adis Abbaba. Alt. 8500', 



Ttjpe. Old male. Original number 6. Collected loth 

 September, 1904. 



" Trapped in a Galla house near the legation." 



This torm of Ictonyx differs by its larger size from the 

 Ked-Sea erythrem, while by the well-marked black band 

 separating the frontal from tiie lateral white face-markings it 

 is distinguishable from the intermedia of Uganda and British 

 East Africa, in which these white areas are scarcely separated 

 from each other or even form an uninterrupted band across 

 the face. 



Xerus ruiilus sttpJianicus, subsp. n. 

 General characters as in true rutilas, but the grizzled 



