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The skull is very like Oulo in general form ; but the upper flesh- 

 tooth is triangular, and the larger internal lohe in Oulo is oblong, 

 longitudinal, with a small internal lobe near the front end. 



2. Mellivora ratel. (Eatel.) B.M. 



Black ; the back iron-grey ; the crown and a broad streak down 

 each side to the tail white.— GVay, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 680. 



Known from M'. indica by the greater quantity of white on the 

 head and the broad white lateral edge to the iron-grey colour on the 

 back. Skull higher. 



Grulo capensis, Desm. Mamm.jp. 176. 



Ursus meUivorus, Cuv. Tab. EUm. p. 112, 1798. 



Viverra capensis, Schreb. Saugeth. p. 450, t. 135. 



Viverra ratel, Sparrm. Act. Stockh. 1777, t. 4 f. 2. 



Mellivora capensis, F. Cuv. ; Blainv. Ostiogr. Mustela, t. 6 (skull), 



t. 2 (skeleton) ; Sclater, P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 98. 

 Mellivora ratel, Oray, List Mamm. B. M. p. 08 ; P. Z. S. 1865, 



pp. 145, 680. 

 Viverra mellivora, Blumenb. Naiurg. p. 97. 

 Ursus mellivorus, Blumenb. Naturg. edit. 10, p. 99. 

 Tazus mellivorus, Tiedem. Zool. i. p. 377. 



Lipotus mellivorus, Sundevcdl, Kcmg. Vet. Ahad. Handl. 1841, p. 211. 

 Mellivora capensis, Peters. 

 Ratelus capensis, Schinz. 



Meles mellivora. Thumb, in Mem. Petersb. iii. p. 107. 

 Ratelus typicus, A. Smith. 



Mustela capensis, Blainv. Osteogr. Mustela, t. 13. f. (teeth). 

 Stinkbinksen, Kolbe. 

 Blaireaupuant, La Caille, Voy. p. 182. 

 Fizzler Weasel, Penn. Syn. p. 224. 

 Honey-Weasel, Shaw, Zool. i. p. 395. 

 Eatel, Sparrm. Kong. Vet. Akad. Handl. 1777, p. 49, t. 4. f. 3. 



Hah. South Africa (Sparrman) ; East Africa, Sennaar (Sunde- 

 vall) ; Tette (called " Seve," Peters). 



3. Mellivora leuconota. 



Smaller : black ; back white, purer towards the crown. 

 MeUivora leuconota, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 98, t. 8. 



Eab. West Africa. Zoological Gardens. Smaller than M. ratel. 



Mr. Sclater, when describing this species, copied my specific 

 characters for the two known ones (see P. Z. 8. 1865, p. 680 ; 1867, 

 p. 98). 



Tribe III. MEPHITINA. 



Tubercular grinder oblong, quadrangular. Palate scarcely pro- 

 duced behind, nearly in a line with the hinder end of the tooth- 

 line. Pur black, white-streaked. SkuU short. 

 Mephitina, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 145. 



The flesh-tooth in the three genera which Lichtenstein and most 

 compilers have kept together imder the name of Mephitis differs 



