1864.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE VIVERRID. 547 
A. The nose short ; underside flat, with a central longitudinal 
JSurrow.. Herpesteacea. 
Tribe 10. Herprstina. 
Head elongate, conical ; tail conical or cylindrical ; back streaked ; 
claws elongate, compressed. 
18. GaAuipIcTISs. 
Galidictis, I. Geoff. Compt. Rend. 1837, p. 580 ; Mag. Zool. 1839, 
t. 18; Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. 360; Gray, P. Z. 8. 1848, p. 21 (not 
Hodgson). 
Galictis, 1. Geoff. Compt. Rend. 1837, p. 581. 
Nose flat, and with a groove below. Ears moderate. Tail bushy. 
Whiskers slender. Toes 5—5; front claws elongate, compressed, 
much arched ; thumb low down, with a long claw. Hinder toes :— 
third and fourth longest, subequal; great toes low down; claws all 
moderate, compressed. Soles broad, bald the whole width to the 
heel. False grinders 3/3. Tail subcylindrical, curved, with long 
hairs. Back streaked. 
1. GALIDICTIS VITTATA. B.M. 
Galidictis vittata, Gray, P. Z.S. 1848, p. 21, pl. 1; in Zool. Sul- 
phur, t.; Coquerel, Mag. de Zool. xi. 465, t. 18. f. 2. 
Grey, black-and-white grizzled ; back and sides with eight nearly 
equal, parallel, narrow, black-brown streaks ; chin and beneath pale 
brown ; hind feet and outer sides of fore legs reddish brown; tail 
subcylindrical, bushy, black-and-grey grizzled, white towards the 
end; hairs elongate, brownish white, with two, rarely three, broad 
black rings. 
Hab. Madagascar (7. Thompson) (Mus. Brit.). 
The skull described in the Proc. Zool. Soc. is not quite adult ; it 
has a small adult false molar. 
2. GALIDICTIS STRIATA. 
Pale brown ; seven or nine longitudinal black streaks, the middle 
one on each side behind short ; head and limbs pale brown ; tail 
whitish. 
Galidictis striata, 1. Geoff. Mag. de Zool. 1839, t. 18, 19 ; Schinz, 
Syn. Mamm. 1.360; Gerrard, Cat. Ost. B. M. 76. 
Galictis striata, I. Geoff. Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. 1837, p. 581. 
Mustela striata, Geoff. Mus. Paris. ; Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 224. 
Pictorius striatus, Cuvier, Régne An. ed. 2, p. 144. 
La Belette grise de Madagascar, Sganzin, Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1855, 
41. 
Hab. Madagascar. 
In the figure the brain-cavity is nearly three-fifths the entire length 
of the skull; and the skull at the widest part of the zygomatic arch 
is as large as the brain-cavity. Skull oblong, rather elongate ; brain- 
cavity rather more than half the entire length ; orbit very incomplete 
behind ; forehead arched ; crown flat ; upper false grinders two, com- 
