376 Messrs. 0. Tlioiiias and R. C. Wroiigliton on 



?npinus, while its short fur differentiates it from all other 

 forms except pichis somalicus, Thos. This last form has still 

 shorter hair than sliaricus and is very markedly smaller. 



Mellivora concisa, sp. n. 



A medium-sized MeJUvora with the usual white mantle 

 wanting on the rump and tail. 



Size smaller than in typical ratel. 



Hair of back 30 mm. long. 



Colour-pattern as in most of the members of the genus, 

 i. e. black with a mantle of white extending from the forehead 

 to halfway down the tail, except that the white begins to die 

 out in the median line from about the middle of the back 

 posteriorly, disappearing completely on the rump and base of 

 the tail. 



Skull not differing materially from that of ratel, except in 

 its markedly smaller size. 



]\Ieasurements of the type (those of the body taken in the 

 flesh):— 



Head and body 580 mm. ; tail 153 ; hind foot 94; ear 19. 



Skull : greatest length 135 ; basal length 125 ; breadth of 

 brain-case 60 ; interorbital breadth 33; palatal length 63; 

 length of upper carnassial 12*5 ; greatest breadth of 

 same 11'3. 



Hah. Yo, Lake Chad. 



Type. Adult male. Original number 62. Collected 7th 

 December, 1904, by Capt. G. B. Gosling. 



The complete absence of white on the rump and base of the 

 tail suffices to distinguish M. concisa at a glance from any other 

 form. Even should this modification of the usual colour- 

 pattern prove hereafter to be merely individual, which, 

 however, is most improbable, its marked inferiority in size 

 justifies its separation from typical ratel. 



Funisciurus Alexandria sp. n. 



A small Funisciurus of the same pattern as Emini, Stuhl., 

 but much smaller. 



Fur soft but short (8 mm. on the back). 



(Tcneral colour above a greenish yellow, approaching 

 ''olive-buff" of Ridgway ; from the shoulders to the base of 

 the tail a broad (5 mm.) median band, reddish orange in 

 colour, flanked on each side by a black band half its width, 

 and outside these again by a narrow pale yellowish band on 

 each side. Colour below the same as the ground-colour of 

 the back, but tinged witli bright cannry-yellow, especially on 



