716 CLASS XVII. 



Iconogr., Mamm. PI. 14, fig. 3 ; the muishond of the Cape colonists, black, 

 with white spot on the head and four white stripes running from the neck 

 along the back and diverging from one another. Dispersed over a large 

 part of Africa, also in Abyssinia and Nubia (Mephitis lybica EHRENB.). 

 The skeleton has 15 pairs of ribs and 5 lumbar vertebrae. 



4 4 



Mephitis LICHTENST. (in stricter sense). Molar teeth - . 



Upper laniary tooth with internal middle accessory tubercle. 



Sp. Mephitis zorrilla LICHTENST., Viverra putorius L., BUFF. xin. PI. 41, 

 ScHREB. Sdugth. Tab. 123; black, or dark brown, with four yellowish- 

 white stripes along the back and one on each side, that bends from behind 

 upwards ; Mexico, &c. (We are inclined to regard as a variety of this 

 species Mephitis interrupta RAFINESQUE, LICHTENST. 1. 1. Tab. n. fig. i, 

 from the Missouri. Here probably belongs a figure of CATESBY, which 

 occurs in BUFFON, with some alteration, under the name of Conepate, 

 xin. PI. 40). Mephitis mesomelas LICHTENST., Darstell. Tab. 45, fig. 2, 

 Cuv. JR. Ani., id. ill., Mamm. PI. 35, fig. i, under the name of Mephitis 

 putorius; Mephitis Westermanni, J. REINHARDT Kongel. Danske VidensTca- 

 bernes Selskabs Schrifter, 5te Raekke. Naturvid. og math. Afdeling, ivte 

 Bd. 1857. 



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Thiosmus LICHTENST. Molar teeth 



55' 



Sp. Mephitis mapurito, Viverra mapurito GMEL. &c. Comp. LICHTENSTEIN 

 1. 1. 



4 4 



Mydaus F. Cuv. Molar teeth = -, (as in Mephitis). Snout 



o o 



produced, proboscidean. Ears very small, immersed in fur. Fee 

 plantigrade. Claws of fore feet large, compressed, somewhat 



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straight. (Dent. form. OWEN, i. ^-^ , c. -j , p. -^ , 



Sp. Mydaus meliceps F. Cuv., Mephitis javanensis DESM., F. Cuv. Mammif. 

 Livr. 27, HORSFIELD Zool. Res. in Java, No. n. (with figure of skull), 

 Cuv. R. Ani., ed. ill., Mamm. PI. 35, fig. 2 ; a small animal of the length 

 of full i', brown or black, with a narrow longitudinal white stripe in the 

 middle of the back ; the tail is very short ; Java, on the high mountain- 

 ranges only. By a very thin but longer tail is distinguished Mydaus 

 collaris GRAY, Arctonyx collaris F. Cuv. Mammif. Livr. 51, the Bali-saur, 

 of Hindostan. 



Helictis GRAY, Melogale ISID. GEOFFE. (Spec, of Mydaus TEMM.). 

 Molar teeth - , with upper tuberculate tooth transverse. (A 



genus allied to the preceding, but with larger ears, and smaller 

 claws, more incurved.) 





