BHHSrOGALlD*. 



171 



in the most swollen part more like 803 a. The flesh-tooth is similar 

 to that of G. penidllata. 



3. Cynictis? flmbriata. 



Fur very pale, whitish ; hairs white at the base, silky, with black 

 and white bands and a white tip j below dirty white. The black and 

 white rings on the silky hair of the tail are broader ; the lateral hairs 

 and the tuft at the tip are tipped by an Isabella band. The feet 

 pale brown, dotted with white. 



Length of body and head 11 inches. 



Herpestes fimbriatus, Temm. Esq. Zool. p. 112. 

 Cynictis flmbriata, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 673. 



Hah. India (? Temm., Mtis. Leyden). 



The account of the tail would lead us to believe that this is a 

 Cynictis : but the under-fur of that animal, even in the very young 

 state, is black, 



4. Cynictis leptnra, £.M. 



Pale foxy brown, brown-pencUled ; lips, chin, and tip of the taU 

 white ; tail fulvous, grizzled with chestnut-brown, hair with a broad 

 central chestnut-brown ring ; underside yellowish white. 



Cynictis leptura, A. Smith, lUust. Zool. S. Africa, Mamm. t. 17 ; 



Gray,P.Z.S.\d6i,^.51Z. 

 Cynictis Levaillaiitii, var., Oerrard, Cat. Bones S. M. p. 77. 



Hah. South Africa, in barren places. 



The skull of Cynictis leptura (803 e, A. Smith) is very like that 

 of G. penidllata (803 c) ; the forehead is convex before and be- 

 tween the eyes, and the teeth are very similar ; but the flesh-tooth 

 is much shorter compared with the width of the front margin, more 

 equally triangular, as the front lobe on the inner edge is longer com- 

 pared with the rest of the tooth ; the hinder tubercular is rather 

 wider and more Uke the front one. 



Fam. 9. RHINOGALID^. 



Tubercular grinders two on each side of the upper, and one on 

 each side of the lower jaw. Nose produced, underside convex, 

 covered with short adpressed hairs, without any central bald longi- 

 tudinal groove. The toes hnear, separate, extended. Claws blunt, 

 fore one often elongated. Soles of the hind feet bald, or slightly 

 covered with hair. The fur rigid, grizzled. Tail not ringed. 

 Viverridse, § Rhinogaleacea, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 673. 



Daubenton, in the description of the Suricate (Hist. Nat. xiii. 

 p. 75), observes, " Les narines ressemblent a cellos du chien ; mais 



