1 50 HEBPBSTID J5. 



together on the forehead at a line rather in front of the hinder edge 

 of the orbit. The orbits are large, the hinder edge entire ; the hinder 

 part of the skull is broad ; the hinder part of the palate between the 

 temporal muscles is narrow and elongate, the hinder opening being 

 nearer the hinder than the front edge of the temporal fossse. The 

 hinder grinders are slender ; the crown of the flesh-tooth is trian- 

 gular, the front side being the shortest, with the inner tubercle on 

 the straight front edge. 



12. Herpestes Pluto. B.M. 



Black J sides of the head, neck, and front of the body pale brownish, 

 with broad white subterminal bands on the ends of the hairs ; hairs 

 harsh ; tail black, grey at the base, hairs not ringed at the end ; 

 front of thighs, legs, and feet black. 



Herpestes Pluto, Temm. Esq. Zool. p. 93, 1853 ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, 

 p. 552. 



Hab. Guinea (TemmineJc) ; West Coast of Africa (Gerrard), adult ; 

 ? East Africa ( Verreaux). 



The adult specimens from Gerrard and Verreaux are rather paler 

 than the younger one from Leyden ; length of head and body 20 

 inches, tail 14 inches. Younger from Guinea, length of body and 

 head 16 inches, tail 11 inches. They have also a slight indication 

 of a crest of longer black hairs on the back of the neck. 



Skull short, broad ; nose shelving ; forehead convex ; crown flat ; 

 orbits complete. False grinders | ; flrst 6onical, blunt ; the second 

 compressed ; the third trigonal, with a distinct internal and hinder 

 tubercle. Flesh-tooth rather longer than wide on the front edge ; 

 the inner tubercle on front edge, broad, rounded. Tubercular grinders 

 transverse ; the front about twice as wide as long, rounded on the 

 inner edge ; the second smaller, rather oblong, with two well-marked 

 tubercles, rather narrower and more acute on the hinder part of the 

 inner edge. 



SkuU — length 3^ inches ; width at zygoma 2Jg- inches, of brain- 

 cavity 1| inch. 



" Like the H. loempo ; the head and muzzle longer ; tail shorter, 

 covered with hairs like those of the body ; fur of body, limbs, and 

 tail intense shining black ; under-fur sombre or dark brown ; the 

 fur of the chin, throat, and cheeks black, with very small yellow 

 dots ; all the rest intense black. The younger are marked with very 

 fine dots, produced by the yellow rings on the black hairs." — Temm. 



This does not agree with the specimen (which appears to be chan- 

 ging its teeth) which we received from the Leyden Museum. 



13. Herpestes iodoprymuus. 



"Supra ex albido griseoque variegatus, capite, collo, maniculis 

 atque podariis cinerascentibus, hypochondriis viridi-gxiseis, prymna 

 saturate castanea, pectore, abdomine cristaque unicoloribus ex ru- 

 fescente isabellinis ; cauda longe disticha, basim versus viUosiasimu, 



