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internal lobe rather behind the front inner angle. The tuberculaf 

 grinders trigonal, with a sloping enter edge ; the front twice as wide 

 as long on the outer edge ; the hinder small. The lower jaw slender, 

 erect, with a shelving chin or short symphysis and a curved lower 

 edge without any tubercles under the end of the tooth-line ; the 

 tubercular grinder roundish, with two large anterior lateral and a 

 similar-sized posterior central lobe. Length of skull 3^ inches ; 

 width of braincase 1 Jj-, at zygomata If. 



** Tail mhq/lindrieal, with shortish fur ; end black, with imperfect rings ; 

 tip black ; base with alternate, nearly equal black and white rings. 



4. Gtenetta tigrina. (Tigrine Genet.) B.M. 



Grey-brown, with bla^k spots, the larger more or less brown in 

 the centre ; the hind feet darker ; the tail elongate, cylindrical, black, 

 with rather broad white rings, but narrower than the black ones ; 

 tip of tail black. 



Genetta tigrina, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. p. 49 ; P. Z. S. 1864, p 517. 



Viverra tigrina, Schreb. Sdugeth. t. 115. 



Genetta vulgaris, JRilppell. 



Genetta amer, Riippell. 



Genetta abyssinica, Huppell, Fauna Abyss, t. 11. 



Viverra abyssinica, Gerrard, Cat. Bones B. M. p. 71. 



Viverra genetta, Peters, Mossamb. Mamm. p. 118. 



Hah. South Africa : Cape of Good Hope (the Musk-cat of the co- 

 lonists) ; Natal and East Africa ( Verreaux) ; Mozambique (Peters, 

 Kirk) ; Abyssinia {Riippell). 



*** Tail siibcylindrical, with shortish fur, black ; middle part ujith some 

 imperfect rings beneath, the base with a few narrow white rings. 



5. Genetta pardina. (The Berbe.) B.M. 



Fur reddish grey-brown, with black spots more or less brown in 

 the centre ; the feet and hinder part of hind legs brovni ; tail elon- 

 gate, cov.ered with shortish hairs, with iiarrow pale or reddish rings 

 on the basal half, black at the end, with very indistinct narrow 

 pale rings. 



Genetta pardina, /. Geoff. Mag. Zool. 1832, t. 8 ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, 



p. 518. 

 Genette pantharine, F. Cuvier, Mamm. Lithogr. t. 

 Genetta poenais, Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. &c. 1838, p. 59 (from aflat 



skin). 

 Viverra genettoides. Temm. Esq. Zool. p. 89, 1853 ? 

 Genetta Fieldiana, Du Chailht, Proc. Boston iV. H. Soc. vii. (1860) 



p. 302 (from the Gaboon). 

 Genetta servallna, Pucheran, Bev. et Mag. de Zool. vii. (1855) p. 154. 

 Berbe, Bosmann, Voy. Guinea, p. 31. f. 6 ; Buffon, H. N. xiii. 



Hah. Fernando Po (Waterhouse); Guinea (Temm.); Gaboon (Du 

 Chaillu) ; West Africa (B.M.) ; interior of Senegal (/. Oeoffroy). 

 The specimens vary considerably in the size of the spots ; in some 



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