90 MR. O. THOMAS ON THE [Jan. 3, 
species possesses a third pair of upper molars behind the two normal 
ones. The presence of this extra pair of teeth however, is, shown to 
be of no specific or generic importance by the fact that in a second, 
quite identical, specimen collected at the same time and place (Bogos- 
land, Abyssinia), there are only the two usual pairs of upper 
molars. 
4, CROSSARCHUS FASCIATUS. 
Viverra ichneumon (3, Schr. Saug. iii. p. 430, pl. exvi. (1778). 
V. mungo', Gmel. Linn. 8. N. i. p. 84 (1789). 
Herpestes mungo, Desm. Mamm. i. p. 211 (1820). 
H. fasciatus, Desm. Dict. Sci. Nat. xxix. p. 58 (1823). 
*Ichneumon tenionotus, Smith, 8. Afr. Quart. Journ. ii. p. 114 
(1835). 
Ariela tenionota, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 565 (1864). 
Hab. S.E. Africa (Caffraria to Mozambique *). 
Size medium; form stout. Tail rather more than half as long as 
the head and body. General colour grizzled grey, the posterior half 
of the back with cross bands. Longer hairs ringed with black 
and yellow or dark rufous, the posterior half of each light ring 
being always rufous. The rings somewhat broad, so that the 
transverse body-bands are also broad, there being about 33 to the 
inch, counting both light and dark bands. There are altogether about 
12 or 13 bands; but they merge so gradually into the rest of the 
body-colour that they cannot be exactly counted. Underfur grey- 
brown. Neck, chest, and belly uniform grizzled grey, like the upper 
part of the head and shoulders, not rufous as in C. zebra. Feet and 
tail like body, but becoming gradually nearly or quite black towards 
their distal parts. 
Skull comparatively broad and heavy, the teeth larger than in any 
other species, P.M* more than 8 mm. long, last molar small. 
Dental percentage 57-59. 
Dimensions. 
Head and body. Tail. Hind foot. 
PEE ONG oie. 3 tags sao, sg etn Se 13°0 8-0 2°8 
6. Natal (type of I. tenionotus) .. 12:0 70 2°4 
Skulls. Basi- 
Palate- Palate- Inc.to cranial 
; Length. Breadth. length. breadth. cross line, axis. 
a. 8. Africa (Dr. 
Smithy ie VSBAL AL G7 wiES) 098 99 1°05 
6. S. Africa (Dr. 
Smith)... SFG 4h Are we 92 1:00 96 
? This name is so utterly barbarous, and that of H. fasciatus so well known, 
that I think we are justified in ignoring it and using Desmarest’s classical and 
appropriate term. 
_ 7 Two specimens, said to be ‘‘ Henpestes fasciatus,” are recorded from Angola 
in the ‘List of Animals in Zool. Soe. Coll.’ 1879, p. 62; but as neither of these 
is still living and nothing has been preserved of them, I cannot say whether 
they really belong to this species, to C. zebra, or to some undescribed form. 
