518 DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE VIVERRIDZ&. [ Nov. 8, 
*** Tail subcylindrical, with shortish fur, black ; middle part with 
some imperfect rings beneath, the base with a few narrow white 
rings. 
5. GENETTA PARDINA. The Berbe. B.M. 
Fur reddish grey brown, with black spots more or less brown in 
the centre ; the feet and hinder part of hind legs brown ; tail elon- 
gate, covered with shortish hairs, with narrow pale or reddish rings 
on the basal half, black at the end, with very indistinct narrow or 
pale rings. 
Genetta pardina, I. Geoff. Mag. Zool. 1832, t. 8; Gray, Cat. 
Mamm. B.M. 50; Temm. Esq. Zool. 93. 
Genette pantharine, F. Cuvier, Mamm. Lithogr. t. 
Genetta poénsis, Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1838, p. 59 (from 
a flat skin) ; Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. 366. 
Viverra genettoides, Temm. Esq. Zool. 89, 1853? 
Genetta fieldiana, Du Chaillu, Proc. Boston N. H. Soc. vii. (1860) 
p- 302; Gray, Ann. & Mag. N. H. viii. 60; Arch. f. Naturg. 1862, 
p- 128 (from the Gaboon). 
G. servalina, Pucheran, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. vii. (1855) p. 154 ; 
Arch. fiir Naturg. 1856, p. 44. { 
Berbe, Bosmann, Voy. Guinea, 31. f. 5; Buffon, H. N. xiii. 
Hab. Fernando Po (Waterhouse); Guinea (Temm.); Gaboon 
(Du Chaillu); West Africa(B.M.); interior of Senegal (I. Geoffroy). 
The specimens vary considerably in the size of the spots ; in some 
they are brown with black edge, in others almost uniformly black ; 
but I can see no characters by which they can be separated. 
Genetta poénsis seems to be the same variety as that described 
by I. Geoffroy and M. Du Chaillu. 
6. Fossa. 
The back without any black subcrested vertebral streak ; the soles 
of the hind feet hairy, with 
Fossa DAUBENTONII. 
Viverra fossa, Schreb. Saiugeth. t. 114 (from Buffon) ; Fischer, 
Syn. Mamm. 170; Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. 369. 
Genetta fossa, Gray, P. Z.S. 1822; A. Smith, 8. Afr. Q. Journ. 
i. 46; Lesson, Mamm. 174; Pucheran, Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1855, 
ye 
- Fossane, Buffon, H. N. xiii. 163, t. 20. 
Hab. Madagascar (Mus. Paris.). 
“ Fur grey black, rufous-varied, a white spot over the hinder angle 
of the eye; back and nape with black lines, four of which extend 
from the nape to the tail, continuous to the middle of the back, and 
the last of their length broken into very close spots; the sides, 
shoulders, and thighs with spots placed in three lines on each side ; 
lips, chin, and beneath dirty white; tail with many narrow half- 
rings, of a reddish colour, which do not extend to the lower side ; 
