96 DESCRIPTION OF THE 
interior, which is the only perfect one ever seen in 
the Colony”. 
This animal has been characterized as the ANTI- 
LOPE ELLIPSIPRYMNUS. Ant. cornubus maxinis, 
elongatis, procurvis, annulatis; rhinario magno: 
scopis nullis; poris inguinalibus: caudé longa, 
floccosé: pilis rigidis, floccosis, linee dorsalis cervi- 
cisque medie reversis: rufo-brunneo griseoque 
varius, metopio saturaté brunneo, macula longd 
supra oculart, labiis, fascia indistincta gulari, macula 
Jugulari, ellipsique prymnah, albist. 
Cynictis STEEDMANU. Ogilby.—This singular 
little quadruped, hitherto unknown to zoologists, was 
recently described at the Zoological Society, under 
the name of Cynictis Steedmani. It belongs to the 
family of Viverra; but in its zoological characters 
differ so essentially from all described species of that 
family, and presents characters so peculiar and appro- 
priate, as to form the type of a new and distinct 
genus, of which, at present, it is the only known 
species. The teeth are similar to those of the civets, 
paradoxures, and other viverra in general, but the feet 
are completely digitigrade, the heel highly elevated. 
and the toes five on the fore, and only four on the 
* Previous to embarking for England, I saw an imperfect speci- 
men in the possession of his Excellency Sir Lowry Cole, then Gover- 
nor of the Cape, which his Excellency has since presented to Mr. 
Verreaux, a French Naturalist, but it was in too mutilated a state 
to admit of being mounted. 
+ Proceed. of Zool. Soe. 
