On Coleoptera from South Africa. 349 
Mustela Gwatkinstt (Horsf.). 
Martes Gwatkinsii, Horsf. Cat. E. Ind. Coll. p. 99 (1851); Blyth, 
J.A.S. B. vol. xxvi. p. 316 (1858). 
The whole animal, except the chin and throat, very dark 
brown. Hair long and coarse, soles of the feet hairy ; the 
ears are wanting in the light margin characteristic of the other 
species. Chin white, throat deep yellow; there is on either 
side a dark spot in line with the mouth and about midway 
between its corner and the base of the ear. 
The skull differs in several points from that of M. flavigula, 
although it is clearly allied to that species and agrees with it 
in the shape of the posterior molar. 
In its general shape it is greatly flattened, especially over 
the eyes, and it hardly rises at all over the brain-case; the 
auditory bulla are also somewhat flattened, and the meatus in 
consequence rather shorter and less conspicuous. 
It further differs from the skulls of all the other species in 
the absence of the first premolar, and, judging by the distance 
between the second premolar and the canine, this does not 
seem to be an individual variation. 
There is a second skull in the Museum collected in the 
Nilgiris by Mr. Davison which agrees in every respect with 
the t type. 
Dimensions (from skin):—Head and body 350 millim. ; 
tail 300. 
Skull: greatest length 82; basal length 78; zygomatic 
breadth 50; least breadth at postorbital constriction 22 ; 
least palatal breadth between carnassials 13, 
Hab. Peninsula of India. 
Type 9 ad., B.M. 79. 11. 21.621. Madras. Collected 
by Sir W. Elliot, and presented through Col. Sykes to the 
Indian Museum. 
XLVI.—Descriptions of Genera and Species of Coleoptera 
from South Africa. By H.S. Goruam, F.Z.S. &e. 
{Continued from vol. vy. p. 94.] 
Since the first part of this paper was printed I have received 
a further collection from Mr. Guy A. K. Marshall, in which 
are many interesting species not contained in his first collec- 
tion, of which I now give an account, as well as of the other 
families (the C occinellidex &c.) sent tome. Of some of the 
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