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SCIENTIFIC RESULTS FROM THE MAMMAL SURVEY. 
No, XXIX. 
A Renamine oF ** Mungos mungo ellioti’’, WRoUGHTON. 
By THE LATE R. C. WrouGHTON. 
In 1915, when sorting out the races of the Common Indian Mungoose, 
Herpestes edwardsi, at that time known as Mungos mungo, I gave to 
the Dharwar form the name of Mungos mungo ellioti.* 
But it has now been pointed out to me that in 1851+ Blyth applied 
the name of Herpestes elliott, to a Mungoose of the H. smithii group 
from South India, thus invalidating my use of the term. 
Using the revised generic and specific names for the Common 
Mungoose, I would propose for the Dharwar race the name of Herpestes 
edwardsi carnaticus, with the same type specimen, B. M. No. 12, 6. 
29, 44. 
No. XXX, 
THe Munaoosrs oF THE Herpestes smithit GROUP. 
By O.pFrizLp THomas, F.R.S. 
(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 
During the course of the Survey a certain number of Mungooses 
have come which have been referred to Herpestes smithii, but they 
exhibit such a range of variation that I have thought it worth while 
to lay out all the available series, in order to see how far the variation 
is geographical. 
The result proves highly interesting, as I find there are no less than 
five definable geographical races, which may all be considered as 
subspecies of H. smithiv. 
With regard to the names, we may first take in rotation those given 
in Blanford’s Synonymy of H. smithii. Detailed references will be 
found in his work. 
Herpestes smathi, Gray, 1837. Type in British Museum. No 
locality, but the type closely agrees with specimens from the 
Bombay region. 
Herpestes thysanurus, Wagn., 1839. Said to be from Kashmir, 
Far too small to be a member of this group at all. No 
Mungoose with a black tip to the tail has been found in Kash- 
mir, and it is probable there was some mistake as to the 
locality. An African Mungoose of the H. gracilis group 
would better fit the description. 
Crossarchus rubiginosus, Wagn., 1841. Clearly not an H. smithir 
at all, but synonymous with H. vitticollas. 
=Jiournal, BLN. HS. xxvi, p.52, 1915: TJ.A.5S. B., xx, p. 162, 1851. 
