2. HEKPESTES. 145 



1. Galidictis vittata. B.M. 

 Grey, black-and-white grizzled ; back and sides with eight nearly 



equal, parallel, narrow, black-brown streaks ; chin and beneath pale 

 brown J hind feet and outer sides of fore legs reddish brown ; tail 

 subcylindrical, bushy, black-and-grey grizzled, white towards the 

 end ; hairs elongate, brownish white, with two, rarely three, broad 

 black rings. 



Galidictis vittata, Gray, P. Z. S. 1848, p. 21, pi. 1 ; in Zool. Sulphur, 

 t. ; P. Z. S. 1864, p. 647; Coquerel, Mag. de Zool. xi. p. 466, 1. 18. 

 f. 2 (skuU). 



Hah. Madagascar (T. Thompson, Mus. Brit.). 

 The skuU described in the Proc. Zool. 8oc. 1848 is not quite adult ; 

 it has a small adult false molar. 



2. Galidictis striata. 



Pale brown ; seven or nine longitudinal black streaks, the middle 

 one on each side behind short ; head and limbs pale brown ; tail 

 whitish. 



Galidictis striata, /. Geoff. Mag. de Zool. 1839, 1. 18, 19 ; Gray, P. Z. S. 



1864, p. 547. 

 Galictis striata, I. Geoff. Compt. Bend. Acad. Sci. 1837, p. 681. 

 Mustela striata, Ge^. Mus. Paris. ; Fischer, Syn. Mamm, p. 224. 

 Pictorius striatus, CmMr, Signe An. ed. 2, p. 144. 

 La Belette grise de Madagascar, Sganzin, Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1855, 



p. 41. 



Hah. Madagascar. 



In the fig-ure the brain-cavity is nearly three-fifths the entire 

 length of the skuU, and the skull at the widest part of the zygo- 

 matic arch is as large as the brain-cavity. SkuU oblong, rather 

 elongate ; brain-cavity rather more than half the entire length ; 

 orbit very incomplete behind ; forehead arched ; crown flat ; upper 

 false grinders two, compressed ; the flesh-tooth elongate, trigonsJ, 

 much longer than broad at the front edge — the internal tubercle 

 moderate, on the front edge; tubercular grinders transverse, the 

 flrst rather trigonal, narrow on the inner side, the second oblong, 

 much smaller (see I. Geoff. I. c. t. 19). 



2. HEKPESTES. 



Body elongate ; Umbs moderate ; back grizzled. Tail conical, 

 covered with long hairs. Toes 5.5; claws short, compressed. Pupil 

 linear, erect. SkuU elongate. Teeth 40 ; false grinders | . | ; flesh - 

 tooth elongate, narrow, longer than broad on the front e^e ; tuber- 

 cular grinders transverse. 



Herpestes, Miger; Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 548. 



Mangusta, Olivier. 



Ichneumon, Geoff. 



