NO. I NEW AFRICAN MAMMALS — HOLLISTER 5 



lower neck buffy, sparingly spotted with reddish brown ; iinderparts 

 of body yellowish buff, the middle area spotted with dark brown, 

 the lower belly unspotted. Tail with nine dark bands of reddish 

 brown, those of mid-tail almost chestnut, and eight light bands of 

 buff hairs with darker, pale reddish brown tips. Tip of tail broadly 

 dark blackish brown. 



Measurements of type. — Head and body, 380 mm. ; tail vertebra?, 

 355 ; hind foot, 76 ; ear, 38. Skull and teeth : Condylobasal length, 

 75 ; zygomatic breadth, 38 ; mastoid breadth, 24.6 ; interorbital 

 breadth, 10; lachrymal foramen to alveolar point, 23.3 ; mandible, 51 ; 

 upper tooth row, including canine, 29.5; upper carnassial, 7.0x4.3; 

 lower tooth row, including canine, 32.6. 



Remarks. — In a series of fifty specimens of genets of this group 

 from British East Africa this specimen is remarkable for its very 

 small size. Although the animal is an adult male, the skull is much 

 smaller than skulls of considerably younger females of other species, 

 and when compared with male skulls of stuhlmanni or erlangeri of 

 equal age is actually diminutive. There is only a single specimen 

 in the collection. A genet from the neighboring Mount Lololokwi 

 is referred to Genetta stuhlmanni. It is somewhat younger than the 

 type of pumila but has a much larger skull. There will be no difficulty 

 in distinguishing, by size alone, either skins or skulls of this new 

 form from other genets found in the same general region. 



MUNGOS SANGUINEUS PARVIPES, subsp. nov. 



Type from Kaimosi, British East Africa. United States National 

 Museum No. 182739, skin and skull of adult male (basal and nasal 

 sutures closed). Collected February 5, 1912, by Edmund Heller. 

 Orig. No. 5601. 



Description. — Smaller than Mungos sanguineus ibece Wroughton 

 and M. s. proteus' Thomas, with smaller hind foot and skull. Type, 

 in blackish phase, darker, more blackish, than protcus; general 

 color dull blackish, indistinctly marked with minute vermicula- 

 tions of brownish, the sides of neck, sides of body, and middle 

 of tail especially so marked ; head, nape, center of back, hands 

 and feet, and terminal third of tail almost pure dull blackish ; 

 underfur everywhere brownish black. A specimen in the grizzled 

 phase is much like certain specimens of M. s. ibece in like coat, but is 

 generally darker and richer colored, with more ochraceous than in 

 any specimen of ibece in the National Museum collections ; under 

 side of tail especially brighter ochraceous, the median line scarcely 



