140 MELINID^. 



middle longest and unequal ; claws acute, short. Tail elongate, co- 

 vered with long flaccid hair. Teeth 34 ; false grinders | . f ; upper 

 tubercular grinder short, oblong, transverse (licht. Abh, Akad. Berl. 

 1836, t. 1. f. 3, skuU). 



Zorilla, Gray, List. Mamm. B. M. xx. p. 67 ; P. Z. 8. 1865, p. 150. 



Ictonyx, Kaup; Stmdevall, Kong. Vet. Akad. Sand. 1841, p. 214 

 (1842). 



Rhabdogale, Wagner. 



1. Zorilla striata. (The Zorille.) B.M. 



Black ; spot on forehead, and each temple, and four stripes on the 

 back (which are diluted on the sides, only leaving a broad black 

 patch on middle of the back, and then curving to the base of the tail) 

 white ; taU black-and-white varied. 



Viverra zorilla, Thumb. Act. Petrop. iii. p. 806. 



Mustek zorilla, Cuv. Tabl. EUm. p. 116 (1798). 



Viverra striata, Shaw. 



Mustela zorilla, Cuvier, R. A. ; Blainv. Osteogr. Mustela, t. 13. f. 



(teeth). 

 Zorilla capensis, Waterh. Cat. Zool. Soc. 

 Putorius zorilla, A. Smith. 

 Mephitis africana, I/icht. 



Mephitis zorilla, Licht. Darstell. d. Sdugeth. t. 48. f. (not Ahhand.). 

 Zonlla leucomelas, F. Cuv. 



Ehabdogale mustelina, Wagner, Schreb. Suppl. ii. p. 219, 1. 133 a. 

 Ictonyx capensis, Sundev. K. Veten. Ahad. Rand. 1841, p. 214. 

 PMephitis libyca, JShrenh. 



Zorilla striata, Chray, List Mamm. B. M. p. 67 ; P. Z. S. 1865, p. 151. 

 Mustela libyca, Blainv. Ostiogr. Mustela, 1. 13. f. (teeth). 

 Putois du Cap, ou Zorille, Buffon, H. N. xii. 

 Muis-hond, Cape Colonists. 



Hah. South A&ica. 



Var. senegalends. White streaks broader, leaving only very nar- 

 row dark dorsal ones ; taU whiter. B.M. 

 Hub, Senegal. 



2. Zorilla frenata. B.M. 



Brown; fur elongate, very soft, flufiy; lips, chin, a broad band 



encircling the face, two broad bands diverging from the crown and 



two narrower diverging from shoulders, and some spots on the hinder 



part of the back white ; taU. white-and-black varied. 



Mephitis (Ictonyx) frenata, SundevaU,Kmg. Vet. Ahad. Hand. 1841, 



t. 4. f. 1. 

 Mephitis africana, var., Licht. 

 Mustela zoriUa, var., Ruppell. 



PRhabdogale multivittata, Wagner, Schreb. Saugeth. Supp. 

 Zorilla frenata, Gray, P. Z. 8. 1865, p. 151. 



Hah. Sennaar. 



See also ZoriUa Vaillantii, Loche (Eev. Zool. p. 497), from Algeria, 

 which I have not seen. 



