494 ZOOLOGICAL EESULTS OF THE EUWENZOEI EXPEDITION. 



Family V i v E R k i D .e. 



33. Genetta stuhljianni Matsch. 



2 . 136. Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori. 3400 ft. 



6 . 124, 276. $ . 10 (juv.), 287. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori. 6000-7000 ft. 



Prof. Matschie has described (Verhandl. V. Internat. Zool. Congresses zu Berlin, 

 1901, p. 1142) three species of Genet from E. Africa under the names G. stuhlmanni, 

 G. suahelica, and G. erlangeri. We have not been able to inspect the types of these 

 species, but in the Natural History Museum are 9 or 10 specimens from N. Nyasa, 

 Kilimanjaro, Kikuyu, and Entebbe, which have been identified by Prof. Matschie as 

 being either G. sUMmanni or G. suahelica. Adding the present specimens to these, 

 we have a series of over a dozen, the extreme individuals of which are easily 

 separable ; but these extremes are linked up by the intervening individuals in such a 

 way that after most careful examination both of skins and skuUs we have been obliged 

 to acknowledge that we cannot find any constant character by which these forms may 

 be separated. In the present series the low-level specimen shows scarcely any trace of 

 black in its coloration, while among the high-level individuals the palest shows a 

 rustiness in the centres of the spots, while the darkest has black spots on a grey 

 ground. Nevertheless the skulls, apart from the diff'erence of sex, are indistinguishable 

 from one another. The first name employed by Prof. Matschie in this group of Genets 

 is G. stuhlmanni, which we have accordingly adopted for these Ruwenzori specimens. 



Special attention should be drawn in this, and no doubt in other Genets, to the marked 

 sexual diff'erence in the size of the carnassial teeth. Here, for example, the outer 

 length of the upper carnassial is 8-6 and 8-3 mm. in the two males and 7-1 and 7'3 mm. 

 in the two females. Naturalists are accustomed to expect a sexual difference in the 

 size of the canines, but little if any notice has been taken of such a sexual difference 

 in the carnassial teeth. 



34. Genetta victorizE Thos. 



o . Avakubi, E. Congo Forest. 



This is the first specimen of this very handsome and well-marked species which the 

 Museum has received since it was described from a flat skin by Thomas. It is most 

 unfortunate, therefore, that this specimen, like the type, has no skull. 



[A flat skin obtained from a native in the Congo Forest. The natives say the species 

 is not uncommon.- — -R. B. W.] 



35. Genetta bettoki Thos. 



c? . 106. ? . 652, 661, 667. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori. 7000-10,000 ft. 

 The type locality of this species was in the Mau District of Uganda. The present 

 series agree with the type in all essential characters. The body-measurements recorded 



