1906.] MAMMALS FROM NORTH-EAST TEANSVAAL. 579 



longer than head and body, covered with long fine hair ; about 

 ten black rings, alternating with narrower ones, yellowish above, 

 creamy white below, the last two not complete above, leaving a 

 black streak on the upper surface. 



Skull of the same general size as in Cape specimens of G. tigrina, 

 but more delicately built, more constricted over the frontals, and 

 more heavily crested, Nasals narrow and running to a point 

 posteriorly, their lateral edges not roughly parallel as in tigrina ; 

 ascending processes of the maxillaries produced considerably 

 behind the posterior limit of the nasals, postorbital constriction 

 elongated ; sagittal crest unusually developed, commencing imme- 

 diately behind the postorbital processes and running the whole 

 length of the brain- case. Teeth as in G. tigrina, the third upper 

 premolar with no internal cusp. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in the flesh) : — Head and 

 body 487 mm. ; tail 519 ; hind foot 90 ; ear 48. 



Skull — greatest length 90 mm. ; basal length 83 ; zygomatic 

 breadth 44 ; nasals 20 x 5 ; interorbital breadth 10*5 ; brain-case 

 breadth 31-8; palatal length 40-5; length of bullae (including 

 paraoccipital process) 17'1 ; greatest diameter of p* 9'4 ; outer 

 diameter of p* 8 ; transverse diameter of m^ 7*5 ; length of p^ 6' 3, 

 of m, 7"3. 



Hah. Klein Letaba. 



Type. Male. B.M, no. 5.12.9.15, Original number 1242, 

 Collected 24 July, 1905. 



This very intei-esting species appears to be the Zoutpansberg 

 representative of G. tigi^ina, and is, as might be expected, rather 

 more thickly and coarsely haii-ed. It may be distinguished from 

 that animal by the rufous centres to the spots, by the absence of 

 black on the under surface of the body and on the fore and hind 

 limbs, and by the tail being longer than the head and body. The 

 skull is chiefly remarkable for the very conspicuous constriction 

 of the postorbital region and the greatly developed sagittal crest. 

 It might have been supposed that these skull-characters, varying 

 during life and only present in an advanced state in extreme age, 

 as is certainly the case in most genera, are worthless as specific ^ 

 characters. But it is to be noted that in the British Museum'.^ 

 large series of skulls of G. tigrina no other specimen shows thes- 

 peculiarities to anything like the same extent, although maWy 

 a,re obviously older than the type of G. letabce, which has^its 

 basilar suture still unclosed. 



"Tchangaan names 'Ngauny' (for the large brown-spotted 

 species) and ' Tisimba ' (for the smaller dark-spotted species. 

 Both species are apparently uncommon. They frequ^t the 

 kloofs, river-banks, and open bush veldt, are nocturnal pi their 

 habits, and feed principally on beetles." — 0. H. B. G. / 



6. Genetta ludia, sp. n, / 



J. 1276, 1297. / 



A Genet of the G. dongolana type, with black doi-sal stripe and 

 small rusty -red spots. 



