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buffish or isabelline tint, the pronounced isolation of the spots etc., be regairded as 

 retained juvenile characteristics, although it at the same time must be admitted that 

 the much younger male specimen from Beni is more like the adult specimens described 

 above. As a white resp. pale brownish spot is present below the tip of the tail of the 

 adult servalina specimens described above, and also in the corresponding place in Puohe- 

 ran's type, it appears that not too much stress can be laid on the fact that the aubryana- 

 like specimen has the tip of this organ pale. In both cases the white spot and the pale 

 tip may represent the remains of a pale ring. This is the more probably as the pale rings 

 always are broader on the lower side, and thus the last remnant of such a ring is naturally 

 to be found on the lower side of th,e organ. Pucheran has also expressed a similar inter- 

 pretation saying about G. servalina:^ »L'extremite caudal est noiratre; cette couleur se 



fond en dessus avec celle du dernier anneau; en dessous, elle en est separee par une 

 tache blanchatre, vestige d'un anneau inconiplet» — - — . It will thus appear as if the 

 difference between typical servaline and aubryana should not be very fundamental. 

 In any case I cannot regard the young male from Masisi as representing but the same 

 species as the others, although individually somewhat different. 



Another question is whether the adult specimens described above is fully identical 

 with Pucheran' s Genetta servalina, or whether it possibly represents a geographical race, 

 as there are some smaU discrepancies to be noted. One of these is the strongly developed 

 »teinte rousse», which Pijcheran regards characteristic for G. servalina, but I cannot 

 admit great importance to this as it, no doubt, is subjected to individual variation. 

 More stress might be laid on such differences in pattern as the presence of a continuous 

 black mesial stripe along the posterior portion of the back and the decidedly striped 

 upper neck etc. The comparative size of the spots is also different. In the present speci- 

 mens the largest spots are found in the second row from the median line, whUe Pucheran 

 says that the spots next to that line are smallest, and those on the abdomen largest. 

 PousARGUE confirms this and speaks also about the great irregularity of the spots of 



the back and sides, »et Ton y chercherait vainement une orientation suivant des lignes 



longitudinales paralleles». Such a statement has no application on the present speci- 

 mens in which longitudinal series of spots may be quite well discerned. 



Although I am not fully convinced that the differences enumerated are import- 

 ant enough for the creating of a separate subspecies. I think, however, that to avoid 

 confusion it is the best proceeding to give the Genet from Beni and Masisi a separate 

 name Genetta servalina intensa (in consequence of its more pronounced pattern). Such a 

 proceeding appears also to be strengthened by the measurements recorded below. 



The skins are not so carefully made that their measurements can be admitted to 

 halve more than approximate value, but the dimensions of the two adult specimens 

 mav nevertheless be communicated: 



Head and body 58 mm-. 54,5 mm. 



Tail 41,5 » 43,5 » 



Hind foot 79 » 75 » 



Ear (dry !) 33 » 33 » 



1 1. c. p. 117. 



