2. MTTNSOS. 175 



** Bach cross-banded ; tail obscurelg ringed. 



2. Mungos fasciatus. B.M. 



Blackish, minutely grizzled with ashy ; back and rump washed 

 with reddish, with many blackish and white cross bands ; nose, feet, 

 and end of tail blackish. 



Young paler, obscurely cross-banded. 



Mungos fasciatus, Gray, Cat. Mamm. S. M. ; P. Z. S. 1864, p. 576. 

 Viverra ichneumon, Schreb. Sdugeth. t. 116 (from Buff."). 

 Herpestes fasciatus, Desm. Diet. S. iV. xxix. p. 58. 

 Herpestes mimgo, Desm. Mamm. p. 211. 

 Herpestes zebra, Ruppell, Fauna Abyss, t. 9. f. 2. 

 Kyzeua suricata, Children, Clappertmt's Trav. Append. 

 Herpestes (Mungos) fasciatus, OgiCby, P. Z. 8. 1835, p. 102. 

 Mangusta mungo, Fisch. Syn. Mamm. p. 163. 



Hab. Africa: Cape of Good Hope {A. Smith); Lake Tschad {Clap- 

 perton) ; Gambia (i2«mc?aZZ); Abyssinia (called "Gottoni") (RiippdV). 



The not quite adult skuU is rather elongate, ventricose behind, the 

 contraction of the brain-case being in a line with the hinder part of 

 the orbit. The orbit imperfect behind. The zygomatic arch mo- 

 derately bowed out, the more convex part being nearer the hinder 

 end. The nose tapering on the side and above, making a shelving 

 forehead and a slightly arched crown-Une. The false molars are, 

 only two on each side, there being a short space between them and the 

 base of the canine ; the second false grinder triangular, with a good- 

 sized lobe on the inner part of the hinder edge, and with only a very 

 rudimentary point on the hinder outer margin. The flesh-tooth 

 triangular, the front edge being as broad as the outer one, with a 

 large, thick, rounded inner lobe. The first tubercular grinder trans- 

 verse, short, narrowed on the inner edge ; the second similar, but 

 smaller. 



Length of the skull 2X- inches ; width of the brain-case 1 inch, 

 of the zygomatic arch Ig inch. 



Lower jaw rather slender, with a rounded angle under the con- 

 dyle. The false grinders f; the first compressed, sharp-edged. 

 Tubercular grinders rather large, with two high lateral anterior and 

 one large posterior rather high prominence. 



3. Mungos adailensis. 



" Cinereo-flavicans, pilis nigro-fusco annulatis, vertice cerviceque 

 nigro-schistaeeis, dorso fasciis transversis obsoletis nigricantibus ; 

 abdomine dUutiore, in flavidum vergente ; antepedibus obscurioribus ; 

 Cauda corpore parum longiore, apice attenuata baud penicillata, 

 dorso concolori, in ultimo triente nigra, plantis denudatis ; ocuhs 

 pupilla vertioo-elliptica, iride fusca. 

 "Long, tota 22|, caudse 15 poU." 

 Herpestes adailensis, Heuglin, Peterm. Mittheil. 1861, p. 17; iVinia 



Act. Acad. Leap, xxviii. p. 5, t. 2. f. 4 (skuU). 

 Mungos adailensis, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 576. 



Hah. Adail coast (ffeuglin). 



