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pressed ; the flesh-tooth elongate, trigonal, much longer than broad 
at the front edge—the internal tubercle moderate, on the front edge ; 
tubercular grinders transverse, the first rather trigonal, narrow on the 
inner side, the second oblong, much smaller (see I. Geoff. /.¢. t. 19). 
b. Back grizzled ; claws short, curved. 
19. HERPESTES. 
Herpestes, Illiger. 
Mangusta, Olivier. 
Ichneumon, Geoft. 
Body elongate; limbs moderate; back grizzled. Tail conical, 
covered with long hairs. Toes 5—5 ; claws short, compressed. Pupil 
linear, erect. Skull elongate. Teeth 40; false grinders =e flesh- 
tooth elongate, narrow, longer than broad on the front edge; tuber- 
cular grinders transverse. 
* Animal large; hair of body and tail long, harsh ; tail ending 
in a black pencil. 
1. HERPESTES ICHNEUMON. B.M. 
Grey, hairs largely ringed ; head and middle of the back darker ; 
legs reddish ; feet and end of tail black, with a long flaccid pencil ; 
under fur short, reddish. 
Herpestes ichneumon, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 51; Gerrard, 
Cat. Ost. B. M. 73. 
Viverra ichneumon, Linn. 8. N. 
Herpestes pharaonis, A. Smith, 8. A. Quart. Journ. i. 49 ; Schinz, 
Syn. Mamm. i. 367. 
Ichneumon pharaonis, Geoff. Mém. Egypt. 
Mangusta ichneumon, Fischer, Syn. 163. 
Ichneumon egypti, Tiedem. Zool. i. 364. 
Mangouste d’ Egypte, F. Cuv. Mamm. Lith. t. 
Mangouste d Alger, ¥. Cuv. Mamm. Lith. t. 
Hab. North Africa: Egypt; Senegal (Reade, B. M.); Cape Fil- 
pila, 1850. 
The skull is elongate, rather slender ; the brain-case (that is, from 
the occiput to the back edge of the orbit) is three-fifths of the entire 
length ; the crown is straight ; the forehead arched and rather con- 
vex ; the orbits are not quite complete behind. The teeth are normal, 
moderate-sized ; the flesh-grinders of the upper jaw rather narrow, 
the front being two-thirds the length of the outer edge; the front 
tubercular trigonal, transverse; the hinder one small and oblong, 
transverse. Length 3,5, inches, width at zygomatic arch 2 inches— 
the same as the length of the brain-case ; width of brain-case 12 inch. - 
The skull is contracted in front, just over the back edge of the orbits. 
Lower jaw very shelving in front; false grinders 4/4; tubercular 
grinder oblong, elongate, moderate, with a very obscure anterior lobe, 
two lateral and one larger hinder lobe. 
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