1906.] MAMMALS FROM NORTH-EAST TRANSVAAL. 581 



H. & E., is very remarkable, though it may be easily dis- 

 tinguished by its larger size. 



7. Herpestes gracilis punctulatus Gray. 



d. 1307. $. 1288. 



" Tchangaan name ' Mungauba.' 



" This species is not common. It frequents the open bush 

 veldt and lives in holes or in hollow trees and feeds chiefly on 

 insects."~C. H. B. G. 



8. Helogale brunnula* Thos. & Schw. 

 Abstr. P. Z. S. No. 33, p. 10, June 5, 1906. 



J. 1218, 1219, 1262, 1263, 1264. $. 1229, 1265, 1274 



A brown species, not so black on head and limbs as If. parvula. 



Colour above uniform brown finely ticked with bufiy whitish, 

 the general effect between " bistre" and " vandyke brown," with a 

 certain warmth in the tone not present in if. parvida, which more 

 approaches ' seal-brown.' This warmth is due to the under- 

 fur being broadly dull buffy or clay-colour for its terminal half, 

 while in H. -parvida it is smol^y grey. Under surface not 

 conspicuously difierent from upper. Head greyer than back, with 

 a slightly olive tone ; in H. parvvXa^ on the other hand, the head 

 is if anything more blackish, than the back. Limbs like body, 

 grizzled and ticked, not darkening terminally to black as in 

 H. parvula. Tail of the same general colour, evenly tapering, the 

 terminal pencil inconspicuously blacker. 



Skull much as in H. parvtda^ except that the bullae are decidedly 

 larger and more evenly inflated, the increase being particularly 

 noticeable in their posterior, mastoid portion. 



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



Head and body 207 mm. ; tail 165 ; hind foot 42 ; ear 21. 



Skull — basal length 44 mm.; greatest breadth 29"3 ; inter- 

 orbital breadth 8*2 ; breadth of brain-case 22 ; palatal length 24 ; 

 breadth between outer corners of p* 16'8; greatest horizontal 

 diameter of p"* 5"6 ; of m^ 3'5. 



Hah. Klein Letaba, Zoutpansberg Disti-ict. Alt. 1050'. 



Type. Male. B.M. no. 5.12.9.22. Original number 1263.. 

 Collected 30 July, 1905. 



The eight specimens of this Helogale are all precisely similar in 

 colour, and ail equally different from a co-type of H. jxirvula in 

 the Museum Collection. Unfortunately the locality of H. parvida 

 is not known, though from the general account of Wahlberg's 

 localities given by Sundevall in his paper on the birds, the 

 present region might have been the " Oaffraria superior, juxta 

 tropicum." However, since the Letaba Helogale does not agree 



* [The complete account of tliis new species appears here ; but since the name and 

 prclirainarj' diag'nosis were published in the 'Abstract,' it is distinguished by the 

 name being underlined. — Editok.] 



