58 EINAR LÖNNDERG, MAMMALS COLLECTED BY THE SWEDISH ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITION ETC. 
Hyegnide. 
Crocotta panganensis LÖNNBERG. 
LÖNNBERG: Mammals p. 18, in Sjöstebt's Kilimandjaro Meru Exp. 1908. 
We had bad luck with Spotted Hyenas because our steel-traps were too weak, 
and they wrenched themselves free again. But after my return home Mr. RB. J. 
CUNNINGHAME kindly -sent me a skull of a male Spotted Hyena from South Sotik, 
British East Afrika. The skin had unfortunately been lost. This skull proves to be 
of the broad type, according to CABRERA's" division of the species, the breadth across 
the upper carnassials being even greater than the length of the lower tooth-row ex- 
clusive of incisors. The ratio between zygomatic breadth and condyloincisive length 
is 72 24. The palatal opening is very broad (conf. table of measurements below). 
It is of course difficult to base the identification of a Spotted Hyena on a 
skull only but this skull resembles rather closely that of the type of C. panganensis.” 
Most of the small differences may be explained as individual variation or as due to 
difference in age. The upper carnassial tooth of the skull from the Sotik is con- 
siderably smaller than that of the type of C. panganensis, but a young cotype of 
the latter has almost as small carnassial. 
Basal length ofiskull/ (205 MS CSES St sie se SSE SS SA RE 223 Nr tra 
Condylomesive Ten gta ö-Ru.r st Hole else, ) fe SN sica, DF le de Le ork RAS SINET 
Greatest Zzygomatic IPpreadbil —-E sö SSA stR EES SET RL EN 
Least interorbital wit... 4 sucker ie fa STEL SE EES SNS GAR UI 
Distance between upper ends of foramina infraorbitalia . ss sor ss sc SMG DU, 
Least: postorbital. width of skull ss «tf... ME SSE ERS S CAESAR sn MIO 
Width of palatal opening at sutura palatopterygoidea =. os. «+ « sr Ass HSE TS ÖNS 
Distance between outer sides of outer upper inCceisors . » « ss. ss ss. se sb eo a SOLID 
Distance between the bulle at the foramen at the middle of the inner side . . .. 928 >» 
Breadth across. upper. carnassialsj öa shs «. Störd ir dir de SON OO bre TOZEEG 
Length.of upper carnassial sl: « so si serie ski eReli  f5 SEE SEO dö STD LR 
Ten gt MO TAPET = orter fe kr ENS cs TSE SA APS Aa PR SRS Ar ED a SR NE 
Length of lower carnassial . . . « « « » «+ NEG LK gr FN OTO NS 5 Ne OMID 
Length of upper tooth row exelusive of incisors . . . «ss. ss ss ss oc «a CRED 
Length of lower tooth row exclusive of incisors. . . . . . . OM LINA SR KRKA i cd « OLAS 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1910, p. 93. 
I take this opportunity to correct an unfortunate misprint in my paper quoted above. In the table 
of measurements 1. c. p. 19 is written »Basilar length of skull 249 mm.», shall be 229 mm. 
> This measurement corresponds to that of the type of C. panganensis, but that quoted in the table of 
measurements of this species (1. c. p. 19) »distance between upper cernassial teeth at their posterior end 91,3 
mm.», is another measurement taken as quoted at the extreme ends of these teeth! 
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