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buffish or isabelline tint, the pronounced isolation of the spöts etc, be regarded as 

 retained juvenile characteristics, altliougli it at the same time must be admitted that 

 the much younger male specimen from Beni is more like the adult specimens described 

 above. As a white resp. påle brownish spöt is present below the tip of the tail of the 

 adult senalina specimens described above, and also in the corresponding place in Puche- 

 ran^ type, it appears that not too much stress can be laid on the fact that the aubryana- 

 like specimen has the tip of this organ påle. In both cases the white spöt and the påle 

 tip may represent the remains of a påle ring. This is the more probably as the påle rings 

 always are broader on the lower side, and thus the last remnant of such a ring is naturally 

 to be found on the lower side of the organ. Pucheran has also expressed a similar inter- 

 pretation saying about G. servalina: 1 »L/extremité caudal est noiråtre; cette couleur se 



fond en dessus avec celle du dernier anneau; en dessous, elle en est separée par une 

 tache blanchåtre, vestige d'un anneau incomplet» — — . It will thus appear as if the 

 difference between typical servaline and aubryana should not be very fundamental. 

 In any case I cannot regard the young male from Masisi as representing but the same 

 species as the others, although individually somewhat different. 



Another question is whether the adult specimens described above is fully identical 

 with Pucheran's Genetta servalina, or whether it possibly represents a geographical race, 

 as there are some small discrcpancies to be noted. One of these is the strongly developed 

 »teinte rousse», which Pucheran regards characteristic for G. servalina, but I cannot 

 admit great importance to this as it, no doubt, is subjected to individual variation. 

 More stress might be laid on such differences in pattern as the presence of a continuous 

 black mesial stripe along the posterior portion of the back and the decidedly striped 

 upper neck etc. The comparativc size of the spöts is also different. In the present speci- 

 mens the largest spöts are found in the second row from the median line, while Pucheran 

 says that the spöts next to that line are smallest, and those on the abdomen largest. 

 Pousargue confirms this and speaks also about the great irregularity of the spöts of 

 the back and sides, »et 1'on y chercherait vainement — - une orientation suivant des lignes 

 longitudinales paralléles». Such a statement has no application on the present speci- 

 mens in which longitudinal series of spöts may be quite well discerned. 



Although I am not fully convinced that the differences enumerated are import- 

 ant enough for the creating of a separate subspecies. I think, however, that to avoid 

 confusion it is the best proceeding to give the Genet from Beni and Masisi a separate 

 name Genetta servalina intensa (in consequence of its more pronounced pattern). Such a 

 proceeding appears also to be strcngthcncd by the measurements recorded below. 



The skins are not so carefully made that their measurements can be admitted to 

 have more than approximate value, but the dimensions of the two adult specimens 



may nevertheless be communicated: 



o" ? 



Head and body 58 mm. 54,5 mm. 



Tail 41,5 » 43,5 » 



Hind foot 79 » 75 » 



Ear (dry !) 33 » 33 » 



1 1. c. p. 117. 



