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while the spinal stripe is always black. Tl^e same Genet has also not more than seven 

 pale rings. 



G. victorioe Thomas might be excluded from the present comparison, because it 

 has only six white rings on its comparatively bushy tail (with hairs 25 — 30 mm, in length. 



G. bettoni Thomas differs plainly from the Genets of the present collection by 



having the »spots on the anterior half of ;the body between the withers and loins» »re- 



placed by irregular rings, black, with f^wn -coloured centres)).^ In addition to this its 

 hind limbs are greyish brown, and its skull much smaller. 



G. genettoides Temminok has only five partly incomplete tail rings. 



It remains thus among these Gepets with dark feet, and narrow pale rings on their 

 short-haired tails only G. servalina ajad G. aubryana Puch., and these two are evidently, 

 as already Poitsargue has pointed out, very closely related, or perhaps not specially 

 different. As especially characteristic to both, the author quoted lays stress upon a fact 

 which Pfcheban already in the original descriptions^ has set forth, viz. that neither of 

 these »species» has a continous black dorsal stripe. About G. servalina Pucheran says: 

 »Le dos ne presente pas de raie noire continue », and concerning G. aubryana he expresses 

 the same thing by saying that the pedian spots of the back »ne sont point reunies pour 

 former une veritable bande». Thi^ characteristic can be observed in the four Genets 

 now in question, and their general pattern agrees essentially with Pucheban's description. 

 G, servalina and aubryana differ fron; each other, however, in another respect, viz. with 

 regard to the markings of the tail. The former has narrower white rings, and the tip of 

 the tail black (only with a small white spot on the lower side of the extreme tip in a female), 

 the latter has somewhat broader ^yhite rings (but nevertheless narrower than the black), 

 and the tip as well broadly pale. With regard to these patterns of the tail Capt. Arrhe- 

 Nitrs's Genets represent both types: 



G. servalina-type: 1 cf, Masisi, near Kivu, Febr. 1914; 1 ? ad. and 1 ^ juv., 

 Beni, Aug. — Sept., 1914. 



G. aubryana-type: 1 c?, Masi^j, near Kivu, Febr. 1914. The three first mentioned 

 specimens are, in spite of difference in sex and age, so alike as three animals of this kind 

 can be. The Genet-markings of thfs head are very distinct, especially in the old male. 

 The smallest anterior vibrissse are black, the others black at the base, but for the most 

 part white. A black stripe runs mes^aUy from the snout on the forehead surrounded on 

 the sides by broad grizzled whitish b^^nds. From the black upp^er lip runs a black band 

 over and through the eye, bifurcating above the posterior half of the eye to include a 

 white spot. Below the black lower eye-lid is a large white spot. From the space between 

 the ears four black stripes run along ^he upper neck, the median pair is narrower and 

 somejtimes broken. Outside of these four stripes, on either side of the neck, runs a broad 

 black stripe consisting of confluent spots, the foremost spot behind the ear usually, and 

 often some of the spots in front of the shoulders being isolated. At the withers a narrow 

 mesial black stripe (or series of linear black spots) appears between the median pair 

 of neck stripes, and the latter become somewhat broader and dissolve partly into series 



' Another difference is that G. bettoni has rthe light mark on the sides of the muzzle less distinct than usual t>. 

 = Arch, du Museum d'hist. nat., Paris, T. X, 1858—61. 

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