1038 MR. R. I. PococK ON [Nov. 26,. 



however, — a species also reputed to be scarce — Mr. Leighton 

 got six skins of various ages, and these prove to represent an 

 undescribed local race of this Genet-like animal, differing in 

 certain well-marked characters from the typical form which has 

 been known for over sixty years. T am also compelled to regard 

 as examples of a species as yet undifferentiated, the skins, five 

 in number, of a second kind of Genet, which I name in honour 

 of Sir Harry Johnston. These skins, however, belong in all 

 probability to the species previously recorded from Liberia and 

 misquoted as Genetta pardina. 



Cercopithecus DIANA (Linn.). 



Gercopithecus diana Linn., Jentink, Notes Levden Mus. xx. 

 p. 237, 1898; Pocock, P.Z.S. 1907, p. 682. 



Mr. Leighton brought home a fine pair of Monkeys of this 

 species and presented them to the Society's Gardens. There is 

 also a native-prepared skin in his collection. 



The figure purporting to represent this species in Sir Harry 

 Johnston's work on Liberia (vol. ii. pi. facing p. 680) has the 

 rusty-brown thighs typical of the species, but the long white 

 beard characteristic of the allied form, G. roloioay, which takes 

 the place of G. diana on the Gold Coast. 



Felis parous Linn, 

 Subsp. leopardus, Schreb. 



Felis par dus leopardus Schreb., Pocock, P. Z. S. 1907, p. 675. 

 Skins of the paws of a Leopard brought back by Mr. Leighton 

 prove, if proof were wanting, that the Leopard of Liberia belongs 

 to the typical tropical West- African forest-race, named leopardus^ 

 which has been previously recorded from Sierra Leone, Ashanti, 

 and elsewhere. 



Felis aurata Temm. 



Subsp. CELiDOG ASTER Temm. 



Felis aurata celidogaster Temm., Pocock, P.Z. S. 1907, p. 660. 



Two native-prepared skins, without heads and paws. These 

 two skins completely bear out the view I expressed in the above- 

 quoted paper as to the importance of the pattern and the 

 valuelessness of the colour as characters for the recognition of 

 geographical i-aces of this species of Oat. One is of the red type 

 and the other of the grey type ; but in the red skin the sides of 

 the body have a grey tinge, owing to the presence of the whitish- 

 grey band in the individual hairs. So far as pattern is concerned 

 the two skins are practically alike. The neck is longitudinally 

 but rather confusedly barred ; on the spinal area the spots are 

 elongate or form abbreviated lines ; the shoulders are somewhat 

 thickly covered with small spots ; on the sides of the body the 

 spots are larger, often more or less confluent and sometimes 

 rosette-like, owing to the darkening of the area between them ;, 



