1864.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE VIVERRID. 565 
CALICTIS SMITHII. B.M. 
Reddish brown, very closely pale-grizzled, hair with red-brown 
ends, and subconical white bands ; feet and tip of tail black. 
Herpestes smithii, Gray, Loudon’s Mag. N. Hist. 1837, i. 2; Cat. 
Mamm. B. M.51; Proce. Zool. Soc. 1851, p. 131, pl. xxx1.; Ann. 
& Mag. N. H.1853, xii. 47; Gerrard, Cat. Ost. B. M. 74; Temm. Esq. 
Zool. 97. 
Hab. Ceylon (A. Grace). 
M. Temminck, misled by some dealer, believes that this animal 
inhabits Cape Coast and Guinea. He complains of the shortness of 
my diagnosis ; but says himself it is well characterized by a shorter 
but nearly identical one (see Temm. Esq. Zool. 98). 
24. ARIELA. 
Helogale (part.), Gray, P. Z.S. 1861, p. 308. 
Body elongate. Tail slender, elongated, subcylindrical, thickest 
at the base. Toes 5—5. Skull elongate. Face short. Teeth 40; 
false grinders 3 flesh-tooth trigonal, rather broader than long, 
inner lobe long, rounded, on front edge ; tubercular grinders 2/1, 2/1. 
ARIELA TENIONOTA. B.M. (skull only). 
Hair of head, under part of neck, and lower part of the extremi- 
ties short, elsewhere pretty long; centre of the face, forehead, crown, 
cheeks, and space between the eyes and ears black, freely pencilled 
with white. Muzzle, upper and lower lips, and space under lower 
jaw light chestnut; outer surface of the ears brownish, inner surface 
dirty reddish white ; back and sides of neck, shoulders, anterior part 
of back and sides, and outer surface of anterior extremities finely 
pencilled black and white; the rest of back and upper part of sides 
banded transversely deep black and yellowish white or light yellow- 
brown; flanks and outer surface of hinder extremities towards the 
body pencilled dull black and yellowish white; lower part of neck, 
breast, belly, and lower surface of extremities black; tail slender, 
thickest towards the root, for about two-thirds of its length pencilled 
black-brown and pale ferruginous ; last third nearly uniform black. 
Length of head and body 15 inches, of tail 74 inches. 
Helogale tenionota, Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 308; Gerrard, Cat. 
Ost. B. M. 76. 
Herpestes tenionotus, A. Smith, S. African Journ. 52, 1834, 
H. zebra (partly), Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. 371. 
Ichneumon tenionotus, A. Smith, S. Afr. Quart, Journ. 50, 
Hab. South Africa: Natal (4. Smith). 
The flesh-tooth broader than long; the inner lobe long, rounded, 
on the front edge. The first false grinders conical, compressed ; the 
second trigonal, with an internal tubercle. The tubercular grinders 
transverse ; the first large, with a long internal lobe, rather thinner, 
narrower than the outer edge, and rounded within. Orbit incom- 
plete behind. Skull elongate. s 
