1864.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE VIVERRID. 517 
Genetta senegalensis, Gray, P. Z.S. ii. (1832) p. 63; Cat. Mamm. 
B.M. 49; Gerrard, Cat. Oss. B. M. 71. 
Viverra senegalensis, Fischer, Syn. 170 (from F. Cuv.); Temm. 
Esq. Zool. 92. 
Genette de Sénégal, F. Cuv. Man. Lith. t. . 
’Genetta aubryana, Pucheran, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. vii. (1855) 
p- 154; Arch. fiir Naturg. 1856, p. 44. 
Fossane, Brown, Illust. t. 43. 
Hab. West Africa: Senegal (Verreaux) ; ?Gaboon (Aubry le 
Comte); Sennaar (Brit. Mus. 46, 6, 15,43). East Africa: Abyssinia 
(B. M. 44, 5,17, 27); Dongola (B. M. 46, 9, 2, 27). North Africa 
(B. M, 43, 12, 28, 2). 
Skull tapering in front ; nose compressed. Orbit very large, very 
incomplete behind ; the zygomatic arch confluent with the lower 
edge of the orbit, moderate. False grinders 3/4, 3/4; upper rather 
far apart, front small, second compressed, with a small lobe on each 
end ; third compressed, with a small lobe on the middle of the inner 
side and one at the hinder end. The flesh-tooth triangular, much 
longer than the breadth at the front edge, with a moderate-sized 
internal lobe rather behind the front inner angle. The tubercular 
grinders trigonal, with a sloping outer edge ; the front twice as wide 
as long on the outer edge ; the hinder small. The lower jaw slender, 
erect, with a shelving chin or short symphysis and a curved lower 
edge without any tubercles under the end of the tooth-line ; the 
tubercular grinder roundish, with two large anterior lateral and a 
similar-sized posterior central lobe. Length of skull 34 inches; 
width of brain-case 1,},, at zygoma 12. 
** Tail subcylindrical, with shortish fur ; end black, with imperfect 
rings ; tip black, base with alternate, equally long, black and 
white rings. 
4, Genetra TIGRINA. B.M. 
Grey brown, with black spots, the larger more or less brown in 
the centre ; the hind feet darker ; the tail elongate, cylindrical, black, 
with rather broad white rings, narrower than the black one ; tip of 
tail black. 
Genetta tigrina, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 49; Gerrard, Cat, Ost. 
B. M. 71; A.Smith, S. Afr. Q. Journ. i. 46. 
Viverra tigrina, Schrb. Siiugeth. t.115; Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 170, 
Genetta vulgaris, Ruppell. 
G. amer, Riippell; Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 49. 
G. abyssinica, Riippell, Fauna Abyss. t. 11. 
Viverra abyssinica, Gerrard, Cat. Oss. B. M. 71; Schinz, Syn, 
Mamm. i. 364. 
Viverra genetta, Peters, Mossamb. Mamm. 113. 
Hab. South Africa: Cape of Good Hope (the Musk-cat of the co- 
lonists) ; Natal and East Africa (Verreaux) ; Mozambique (Peters, 
Kirk); Abyssinia (Riippell). 
