1907.] MAMMALS FROM COGUNO, INHAMBANE. 291 



14. Genetta sp. 



d. 1566. $. 1562. 



Allied to G. letabce Thos. & Schw. 



" ISTative name, ' Simba." 



" Not very common and found everywhere, especially near 

 native habitations. This species, with all the cats, is eaten by 

 the natives."— C. H. B. G. 



15. MuNGOS GALERA Erxleb. 

 J. 1645. 



" Native name, ' Shikoko.' 



" Apparently common and generally living in the reed-beds and 

 swamps ; the specimen sent, however, was caught some little 

 distance from water and near a Kaffir kraal, whei-e it was 

 probably on the prowl after a stray chicken. Nocturnal only." — 

 C. H. B. G. 



16. MuNGOs (Ichneumia) grandis Thos. 

 cJ. 1535. 



Whether this animal, the external characters of which are quite 

 as in southern examples of M. cdbicauda, should be treated as one 

 of the subspecies of that form, or whether several of these should 

 be raised to specific rank, is a question which cannot be settled 

 without further material. Immature specimens would be of 

 particular value as the characters rest mainly on the structure 

 of the teeth, which get worn down in adult life. 



" Native name, ' Sanganye.' 



" By no means common and generally found near habitations, 

 which they visit for the chickens, &c."' — 0. H. B. G. 



17. MuNGOs cafer Gm, 



" Native name, ' Shlaushlwa.' 



" The flat skin sent was the only one seen during the trip. It 

 is evidently rare, as many of the natives did not know its name 

 and some even had never before seen one. The boy from whom 

 I took it said he caught it in the reedy bed of the Inyamatanda- 

 River."— C. H. B. G. 



18. Orossarchus fasciatus senescens, subsp. n. 

 S. 1558, 1628, 1654. 



" Shot in thick bush."— 0. H. B. G. 



Much greyer than the trne fasciatus. 



Size i-ather larger than in Zululand examples of fasciatus, 

 approaching that of the Ruwenzori form, C. f macricrus Thos., 

 but the tail not lengthened. General colour conspicuously greyer 

 than in fasciatus, the nape, fore-back and flanks of a clear 

 cinereous grey, entirely without fulvovis suftlision. The stripes 

 normal in number and position, but the light ones white along 



