1864.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE VIVERRID. 573 
3. Cynicris? FIMBRIATA. 
Fur very pale, whitish ; hairs white at the base, silky, with black 
and white bands and a white tip; below dirty white. The black 
and white rings on the silky hair of the tail are broader ; the lateral 
hairs and the tuft at the tip are tipped by an isabella band. The 
feet pale brown, dotted with white. 
Length of body and head 11 inches, tail inches. 
Herpestes fimbriatus, Temm. Esq. Zool. 112. 
Hab. India (? Temm., Mus. Leyden). 
The account of the tail would lead one to believe that this is a Cy- 
nictis: but the under fur of that animal, even in the very young state, 
is black. 
4. CyNICTIS LEPTURA. B.M. 
Pale foxy brown, brown-pencilled ; lips, chin, and tip of the tail 
white ; tail fulvous, grizzled, with chestnut-brown hair, with a broad 
central chestnut-brown ring ; under side yellowish white. 
Cynictis lepturus, A. Smith, Illust. Zool. 8. African Mamm. t. 17 ; 
Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. 376. 
C. levaillantii, var., Gerrard, Cat. Ost. B. M. 77. 
Hab. South Africa, in barren places. 
The skull of Cynictis leptura (803 e, A. Smith) is very like that 
of C. penicillata (803 c); the forehead is convex before and be- 
tween the eyes, and the teeth are very similar; but the flesh-tooth 
is much shorter compared with the width of the front margin, more 
equally triangular, as the front lobe on the inner edge is longer com- 
pared with the rest of the tooth; the hinder tubercular is rather 
wider and more like the front one. 
B. Nose produced ; under side convex, covered with short adpressed 
hairs, without any bald central longitudinal groove. The fur 
grizzled. Tail not rigid. Soles bald and slightly covered with 
hair. Rhinogaleacea. 
Daubenton, in the description of the Suricate (Hist. Nat. xiii. 
75), observes, ‘Les narines ressemblent a celles du chien; mais le 
nez n’avait pas, comme celui du chien, un sillon qui s *étendit depuis 
Ventre-deux des narines jusqu’ ala lévre; cet espace ¢tait convexe.”’ 
The character here described*does not seem to have been remarked, 
since, indeed, I only accidentally discovered that Daubenton had 
observed it, long after I had seen its importance as a characteristic 
in a group of Viverride. The same character is found in the Man- 
gouste figured by M. Daubenton (t. 19); but he does not notice it 
in his short description of a living female of that animal. 
Tribe 12. RHINOGALINA. 
Nose short ; teeth 40; tubercular grinders 2/2. 
32. RuHINOGALE. 
Head ovate. Nose shortly produced, convex beneath. Body 
elongate. Toes 5—5. Claws short, compressed, acute. Tail conical, 
