8. ICHNETTMIA. 163 



inhabits Cape Coast and Guinea. He complains of the shortness of 

 my diagnosis ; but says himself it is weU characterized by a shorter 

 but nearly identical one (see Temm. Esq. Zool. p. 98). (See Colo- 

 gale nyula and 0. nepalensis, p. 158). 



7. AEIELA. 



Body elongate. Tail slender, elongated, suboyhndrioal, thickest 



at the base. Toes 5 . 5. Skull elongate. Face short. Teeth 40 ; 



false grinders f . f ; flesh-tooth trigonal, rather broader than long, 



inner lobe long, rounded, on front edge ; tubercular grinders f . ^. 



Helogale (pai-tA, Gray, P. Z. 8. 1861, p. 308. 

 Ariela, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 565. 



Ariela taenionota. B.M. (skull only). 



Hair of head, underpart of neck, and lower part of the extremi- 

 ties short, elsewhere pretty long; centre of the face, forehead, crown, 

 cheeks, and space between the eyes and ears black, freely pencilled 

 with white. Muzzle, upper and lower lips, and space under lower 

 jaw light chestnut ; outer surface of the ears brownish, inner surface 

 dirty reddish white ; back and sides of neck, shoulders, anterior 

 part of back and sides, and outer surface of anterior extremities finely 

 pencilled black and white ; the rest of back and upper part of sides 

 banded transversely deep black and yeUowish white or light yellow- 

 brown ; flanks and outer surface of hinder extremities towards the 

 body pencilled dull black and yeUowish white ; lower part of neck, 

 breast, belly, and lower surface of extremities black ; tail slender, 

 thickest towards the root, for about two- thirds of its length pencilled 

 black-brown and pale ferruginous, last third nearly imiform black. 

 Length of head and body 15 inches, of tail 7^ inches. 



Helogale tsenionota, Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 308. 

 Herpestes tsenionotus, A. Smith, S. African Journ. p; 52, 1834. 

 Herpestes zebra (partly), Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. p. 371. 

 Ichneumon tsenionotus, A. Smith, S. Afr. Quart. Journ. p. 50. 

 Ariela tBenionota, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 665. 



Hab. South Africa: l!!(a.tal(A. Sm.ith). 



The flesh- tooth broader than long ; the inner lobe long, rounded, 

 on the front edge. The first false grinder conical, compressed; the 

 second trigonal, with an internal tubercle. The tubercular grinders 

 transverse ; the first large, with a long internal lobe, rather thinner, 

 narrower than the outer edge, and rounded within. Orbit incom- 

 plete behind. SkuU elongate. 



8. ICHNEUMIA. 

 Body compressed. Legs rather long. Fur grizzled. Tail conical, 

 bushy. Toes 5 . 5. Claws rather elongate, sharp. The greater part 

 of the soles of the hind feet are covered with hair. Teeth 40 ; false 

 grinders f . | ; flesh-tooth triangular ; tubercular grinders ^.^. 



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