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The flesh measurements are : Head and body, 550 ; tail, 625 ; hind- 

 foot, 95 ; ear, 38. Skull fully adult with high sagittal and lamb- 

 doidal crests, but basisphenoid and parietal sutures still evident. 

 Condylo-basal length, 106; basal length, 100; zygomatic breadth, 63 ; 

 interorbital breadth, 20 ; post interorbital constriction, 16 ; nasals, 

 27 x* 10; palatal length, 47; mastoid breadth, 42; upper tooth row, 

 44 ; length of PM m4 on outer side, 8.2. 



Three specimens, male, female and young, are in the National 

 Museum, collected by the Rainey Expedition in the Kakumega forest 

 northeast of Kisumu. The adult male has been selected as the type. 

 The female is somewhat lighter in general tone of coloration. The 

 half-grown young specimen is much more grayish than the adults 

 and lacks the tawny suffusion. The two light spots on shoulders are 

 much better marked, however, in the young. The dark rings in the 

 tail of the adults are best marked on the median dorsal line, and are 

 broken or absent on the underside. The terminal one-third of the 

 tail is without any indication of the dark cross bars, the hairs of which 

 are uniformly black tipped. The specimens have been compared with 

 the material in the British Museum and also with a series of flat skins 

 of binotata in the National Museum from Kasai, Congo drainage. 



The genus Nandinia has not previously been reported from British 

 East Africa, the specimen from Ruwenzori recorded by Thomas 

 being the most eastern record. 



MUNGOS DENTIFER, new species 



Type from Maji-ya-Chumvi, British East Africa; adult female, 

 Cat. No. 182732, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; collected by Edmund Heller, Dec. 

 14, 191 1. (Original No. 4865.) 



Characters. — A small species similar to Mungos ochraceus, but 

 size less and hair annulated ; color similar to Mungos zombae, but 

 much more annulated ; skull similar to Mungos lasti, but much 

 smaller, with more inflated brain case ; mandible with first premolar 

 present as in Mungos lasti, this character separating these two species 

 from all their allies. 



Coloration. — General dorsal color grizzled buffy and blackish, 

 except the median dorsal area which is mars-brown, due to the color 

 of the underfur predominating by the wearing off of the tips of the 

 longer annulated hairs ; tip of the tail with a subterminal band of 

 rufous followed by a black tip, the rufous spreading on underside 

 halfway to base ; feet like back in color ; underparts without the 

 blackish vermiculation, the color more uniform tawny-olive. 



