1864.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE VIVERRID&. 55 
RHINOGALE MELLERI. B.M. 
Grey-brown, very minutely and closely white-speckled ; the middle 
of the hinder part of the back with an obscure, broad, darker lon- 
gitudinal streak ; tail (all but the base) black ; nose and feet rather 
brown ; under fur brown. 
Hab. East Africa (Dr. Meller). 
The skull is narrow, more especially the hinder portion. The 
face is short and rather narrow. The forehead and crown of the 
head form a gradually arched line from the end of the nose to the 
occiput. The cavities for the temporal muscles are moderate ; they 
meet on the crown, just over the hinder edge of the zygomatic arch, 
leaving a large lozenge-shaped convex forehead between the orbits. 
The orbits are rather small ; the hinder edge incomplete. The hinder 
part of the palate between the temporal muscles moderately broad 
and short, the hinder opening being in a line with the middle of the 
temporal fossee. The grinders are short, broad, and solid ; the car- 
nassier being triangular, the sides very nearly equal, the inner side 
being broad and rounded and placed nearly in the middle of the 
inner side. The tubercular grinders are oblong, transverse, with 
the inner side rounded and nearly as broad as the outer one; they 
are much worn, showing that the animal was fully adult. 
33. Muneos. 
Mungos (partly), Ogilby, MS. (see Proc. Zool. Soc. iii. 103, 1835). 
Head elongate. Nose slightly produced ; underside convex, with 
close-pressed hairs, without any central groove. Body slender. Fur 
rather harsh. Tail subcylindrical, covered with harsh hairs. Toes 
5—5 ; front inner toe strong, hinder smaller. Claws strong, acute ; 
front rather elongate, compressed, arched. Teeth 40; false grind- 
ers 3/4, 3/4; flesh-tooth triangular, as broad as long; tubercular 
grinders =, upper transverse. 
Ogilby separated the genus, because in the two African species he 
examined there were only 2/4 false molars. 
M. Temminck, with his usual want of attention to organic pecu- 
liarities, unites these animals and Herpestes vitticollis as a single spe- 
cies (see Esq. Zool. 111). 
* Back and tail grizzled. 
1. MuNGOS GAMBIANUS. B.M. 
Grey, grizzled with black and grey, hair rigid, with a broad pale 
ring and large black tip ; streak on side of neck, feet, and end of the 
tail black ; lips, chin, and throat white; belly reddish ; hair of hind 
limbs elongate, reddish. 
Young greyer; the black tips of the hairs shorter. 
Herpestes (Mungos) gambianus, Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 102; 
Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. 374; Temm. Esq. Zool. 111. 
Mungos gambianus, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 50. 
Hab. W. Africa; Gambia (Rendall). 
