o/2 DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE VIVERRIDE. [Nov. 8, 
on which he founded his genus, had lost the front upper false grinder.”’ 
—Mag. Zool. 1843, p. 7, note. 
C. melanura, Martin, is a Herpestes. The type specimen which 
he described, now in the British Museum, has a small but distinct 
internal hind toe. 
1. CyNICTIS PENICILLATA. B.M. 
The under fur short, soft, and black. 
Mangusta penicillata, Cuvier, Rég. Anim. (ed. 2); De Blainv. 
Ostéogr. Viverra, t. 12 (teeth). 
Ichneumia albescens, 1.Geoft. Mag. Zool. 1839, t.12(mot descrip.). 
Mangusta levaillantii, A. Smith, Zool. Journ. 
Cynictis typicus, A. Smith, South Afr. Quart. Journ. i. 53. 
C. steedmanii, Ogilby, P. Z. 8.1833, p. 49; Trans. Zool. Soc. 1835, 
i. 34, t. 3 (a skull); Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. 377. 
C. levaillantii, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 53; Gerrard, Cat. Ost. 
B. M. 77. 
Meeskal, Barrow, Trav.; Swains. Lard. Ency. 159. f. 71. 
Mangusta (Cynictes) penicillata, De Blainv. Ost. t. 5. 
Var. redder. Ichneumia ruber, Geoff. 
Herpestes ruber, Licht. Mus. Berlin. 
Hab. South Africa (Steedman). 
The skull short and curved ; the forehead convex; brain-cavity 
rather swollen; upper false grinders 3/3, the first very small, the 
third trigonal ; the flesh-tooth rather longer than broad ; the tuber- 
cular grinders transverse, very short and broad, the last small. 
Skull broad, the width about two-thirds the entire length; the 
brain-case half the entire length ; orbit complete behind ; forehead 
convex, especially between and in front of the eyes. The two front 
upper false grinders compressed ; the third subtrigonal, with a small 
central internal lobe ; the flesh-tooth longer than broad on the front 
margin ; the false grinder transverse, short, and very broad, subtri- 
gonal, widest on the outer edge, the hinder much smaller. 
The skull of a younger animal very similar, but larger, and the 
forehead not so convex and swollen before and between the eyes. 
Ichneumon rubra (Geoff. J. c. 139), “ Very splendid ferruginous 
red, especially the head,’ is said to be Cynictis steedmanit, Licht. 
2. CyNICTIS OGILBII. B.M. 
Yellow, black-and-white pencilled; beneath whitish ; chin, throat, 
and tip of tail white; ears reddish brown. 
Cynictis ogilbii, A. Smith, S. Afr. Quart. Journ. i. 53; Tllust. Z. 
S. Africa, Mamm. t. 16, ¢; Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. 375. 
Hab. South Africa: barren plains, north part of Graaff Reynet dis- 
trict and Bushman Flat (passes a great part of its time underground) 
(A. Smith). 
Skull very like that of C. levaillantii (803 c); but the forehead 
not so convex, and the skull, though longer, is rather narrower at 
the zygomatic arch; the brain-cavity of the two of the same width ; 
in the most swollen part more like 803@. The flesh-tooth is simi- 
lar to that of C. levaillantit. 
