564 DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE VIVERRIDA. [Nov. 8, 
14. CaLoGaLre? THYSANURA. 
Minor, pilis fusco et pallide luteo annulatis ; pedibus fuscis ; 
cauda longa, penicillo magno aterrimo terminata. 
Length of head and body 12 inches, of tail 13 inches. 
Herpestes thysanurus, Wagner, Miinchen. gelehrt. Anz. ix. 449; 
Schreb. Siugeth. Supp. il. p. 301; Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. 368. 
Hab. India: Cashmere. 
22. GALERELLA. 
Body slender. Legs short. Tail elongate, slender, tapering, 
covered with shortish hairs. Toes 5—4. Claws short, compressed, 
acute. Skull elongate; brain-case rather ventricose. Face short. 
Teeth 38 ; false grinders 3/3, 3/3 ; flesh-tooth triangular, longer than 
broad ; tubercular grinders 2/1, 2/1, transverse. 
GALERELLA OCHRACEA. B.M. 
Pale brown, minutely punctulated; throat, underside, and inside 
of the limbs white; tail-end black; front thumb very small, low 
down. 
Cynictis ochraceus, Gerrard, Cat. Ost. B. M. 77. 
Herpestes ochraceus, Gray, P. Z.S. 1848, p. 138, pl. virz.; Ann. 
& Mag. N. H. 1849, iv. 376. 
H. mutgigella, var., Temm. Esq. Zool. 116. 
Hab. Kast Africa: Abyssinia (/*. H. Hora). 
M. Temminck regards this as only a seasonal state of H. mutgigella 
(Esq. Zool. 116), not observing that it has no internal toe on the hind 
feet. 
Skull elongate; brain-case rather ventricose ; face short, forehead 
arched ; flesh-tooth triangular, much longer than broad, inner 
tubercle anterior; false grinders -— the hinder tubercular very 
small; orbit incomplete behind ; not so contracted in front over the 
back of the orbit. Like Calogale badia in size, but brain-case more 
ventricose. 
23. CALICTIS. 
The pupil oblong, transverse. Claws rather arched, compressed. 
Tail thick, conical, tapering. Ears rounded. Skull elongate. Face 
short. Teeth 40; false grinders aa the flesh-tooth triangular, 
scarcely longer than broad ; tubercular grinders i. 
The skull elongate, rather narrow, much contracted in front of 
the brain-case ; orbit rather incomplete ; the nose shelving ; crown 
flat. The false grinders 3/3; the first very small; second compressed ; 
third trigonal, with a small internal and a small hinder lobe. The 
flesh-tooth triangular, scarcely longer than broad in front, the inner 
lobe on the front edge. Tubercular grinders transverse ; the first sub- 
trigonal, oblique, much broader than long; the second very minute. 
The skull 3 inches long, and brain-cavity 14 inch broad behind. 
