576 DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE VIVERRID&. [Nov. 8, 
** Back cross-banded ; tail obscurely ringed. 
2. MuNGOS FASCIATUS. B.M. 
Blackish, minutely grizzled with ashy; back and rump washed 
with reddish, with many blackish and white cross bands; nose, feet, 
and ends of tail blackish. 
Young paler, obscurely cross-banded. 
Mungos fasciatus, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M.; Gerrard, Cat. Ost. 
Bs Mig 2; 
Viverra ichneumon, Schreb. Saugeth. t. 116 (from Buff.). 
Herpestes fasciatus, Desm. Dict. S. N. xxix. 58. 
H. mungo, Desm. Mamm. 211. 
Hi, zebra, Rippell, Fauna Abyss. t. 9. f. 2; Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. 
371. 
Ryzena suricata, Children, Clapperton’s Trav. Append. 
Herpestes (Mungos) fasciatus, Ogilby, P. Z.S. 1835, p. 102. 
Mangusta mungo, Fisch. Syn. Mamm. 163. 
Hab. Africa: Cape of Good Hope (A. Smith); Lake Tschad (Clap- 
perton); Gambia( Rendall) ; Abyssinia (called ‘‘Gottoni’’) (Riippell). 
The not quite adult skull is rather elongate, ventricose behind, the 
contraction of the brain-case being in a line with the hinder part of 
the orbit. The orbit imperfect behind. The zygomatic arch mo- 
derately bowed out, the more convex part being nearer the hinder 
end. The nose tapering on the side and above, making a shelving 
forehead and a slightly arched crown-line. The false molars are 
only two on each side, there being a short space between them and the 
base of the canine ; the second false grinder triangular, with a good- 
sized lobe on the inner part of the hinder edge, and with only a very 
rudimentary point on the hinder outer margm. The flesh-tooth 
triangular, the front edge being as broad as the outer one, with a 
large, thick, rounded inner lobe. The first tubercular grinder trans- 
verse, short, narrowed on the inner edge; the second similar, but 
smaller. 
Length of the skull 254 inches; width of the brain-case 1 inch, 
of the zygomatic arch 13 inch. 
Lower jaw rather slender, with a rounded angle under the con- 
dyle. The false grinders 3/3 ; the first compressed, sharp-edged. 
Tubercular grinders rather large, with two high lateral anterior and 
one large posterior rather high prominence. 
3. MuUNGOS ADAILENSIS. 
Cinereo-flavicans, pilis nigro-fusco annulatis, vertice cerviceque 
nigro-schistaceis, dorso fasciis transversis obsoletis nigricanti- 
bus; abdomine dilutiore, in flavidum vergente; antepedibus 
obscurioribus ; cauda corpore parum longiore, apice attenuata 
haud penicillata, dorso concolore, in ultimo triente nigra, plantis 
denudatis ; oculis pupilla, vertico-elliptica, iride fusca. 
Long. tota 223, caudze 15 poll. 
Herpestes adailensis, Heuglin, Peterm. Mittheil. 1861, p. 17; 
Nova Act. Acad. Leop. xxviii. p. 5, t. 2. f. 4 (skull). 
