120 ON NEW MAMMALS FROM NORTHERN NYASALAND. [Feb. 18, 



Face, ci'own, and back uniformly grizzled grey. Under surface 

 dull gi-eyish brown, more fulvous on throat and inguinal i-egion. 

 Feet grizzled greyish proximally, fulvous on digits. 



Hah. Abyssinia and Somali. 



(2) Helogale undulata Peters. 



Herpestes undulatus Peters, Reise Mossamb. p. 114, pi, xxv. 

 (1852). 



Body grizzled gi-eyish, more or less suffused with I'ufous. Face, 

 especially muzzle, sti-ongly i-ufous. Crown like back. Under 

 surface dull greyish brown. Hands and feet deep rufous. 



Hah. Bi'itish East Africa, German East Africa, and Mozam- 

 bique. 



(3) H. VICTORINA, sp. n. 



Body pale grizzled grey, suffused with ochraceous yellow. Muzzle 

 fulvous. Crown like back. Under svirface from chin to anus 

 dull buffy yellow. Hands and feet also buffy yellow. Tail like 

 body above, buffy below. 



Head and body of type 243 mm. ; tail 145 ; hind foot, s. u. 44. 

 Skull — greatest length 52 ; zygomatic breadth 31 ; palate length 

 2*5 ; greatest diameter of jt)^ 5 '5. 



Ihjpe. Male. B.M. No. 93.5.1.2. Collected October 25, 1892, 

 by the Rev. F. C. Smith. Presented by Canon Tristram. Three 

 specimens examined. 



Hah. Region of the Victoi-ia ISTyanza. Type from Nassa, on 

 Speke Gulf, south end of the lake. Usambiro, Victoria Nyanza 

 {Emin Pasha). 



(4) H. VARIA Thos. 

 As above. 



(5) H. PARVULA Sund. 



Herpestes 2>('''>'vitjlus Sund. CEfv. K, Vet.-Ak. Forhandl. 1846, 

 p. 121. 



Size small. Colour uniformly dark, finely gi-izzled brown 

 throughout, on head, body, belly, and limbs. 



Hcib. S.E. Africa : Natal, Zultiland, &c. 



FUNISCIURUS YULEI, sp. n. 



No stripes. Premolars f . 



Superficial appeai-ance somewhat as in F. cepapi. Size rather 

 larger than in that species. Fur of medium harshness ; hairs of 

 back about 10 mm. in length. General colour above pale coarsely 

 grizzled tawny, gi-eyer over the shoulders, though this may be 

 due to old age. Sides greyish tawny, much lighter than the 

 dorsal area, though the line of distinction is not sharply defined. 

 Under surface ill-defined whitish, whiter on the chest and groins, 

 mixed with greyish on the belly. Sides of muzzle and rings 

 round eyes whitish. Crown giizzled tawny. Ears conparatively 



