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b. Toes 5-5. Tail conical, with long hair. Teeth very large : Atlnjla 
(F. Ciiv.) with a new species, A. robustus (p. 558), from the White Nile; 
skull figured. 
c. Toes 5-5. Tail cylindrical, elongate, covered with shortish hairs ; 
tip pencilled : Calogale (g. n., p. 500). This genus has been formed for 
fourteen species, formerly referred by authors to HerpesteSy as for instance 
II. mjula (Ilodgs.), II. sanguineus (Riipp.) ; two, formerly determined as 
II. hndius (Smith), are considered to be distinct from this species, viz! Calo- 
gale grantii (p. 501), and Calogale venatica (p. 503), from East Africa. 
d. Toes 5-4. Tail cylindrical, elongate, covered with short hair : 
Galerella (g. n., p. 504), with the type Ilerpestes ochraceus (Gray). 
*** Front claws short, compressed ; flesh-tooth broad, triangular. 
a. Toes 5-5 ; tail conical, with long hairs. Back grizzled. Pupil 
oblong, transverse : Calietis (g. n., p. 504), with the type Herpeste^ smithii 
(Gray). 
b. Toes 5-5; tail elongate, subcylindrical. Back cross-banded: 
Ariela (g. n., p. 505), with the type Herpestes teenionotus (Smith). 
c. Toes 5-5; legs rather high, tail conical, bushy. Back grizzled : 
Ichneumia (I. Geoffr.). 
*d. Toes 4-4 : Bdeogale (Peters). 
**** Front claws elongate, produced; tail conical, with long hair. 
Back grizzled. Toes 5-5. 
a. Head elongate. Soles of hind feet hairj\ False grinders : Urva 
(Gray). ^ 
b. Head elongate. Solos of hind foot bald. False grinders : I'a- 
niogale (g. n., p. 509), with the typo Ilerpestes vitticollis (Benn.). 
c. Head elongate. Soles of hind feet hairy ; front claws very long. 
False grinders : Onychogale (g. n,, p. 670) with the type Ilerpestes niac- 
carthice (Gray). 
d. Nose short. False grinders Soles bald : Ilelogale (Gray). 
2. Head short, ventricose ; tail bushy, expanded laterally ; claws elon- 
gate. Cynictidina. 
Cynictis (Ogilby). 
B. Nose produced ; its underside convex, hairy, without any bald central 
groove. Bliinogaleacea. 
1. Head elongate, nose short ; teeth 40, false grinders -j. Mungosina. 
a. Tail conical. Toes 5-5 ; front claws short : Wiinogale meUeri (g, n. 
& sp., p. 673) from Eastern Africa ; skull figured. 
b. Tail conical. Toes 6-6; front claws elongate: Mangos (Gray). 
2. Head ventricose, nose elongate ; teeth 30 ; false grinders g-^l. Cross- 
archina. 
Crossarchas (F. Cuv.), Eupleres (Doy^re), Suricata (Desm.). 
Viverra. Dr. Blyth makes some remarks on the geographical distribution 
and variations of the Asiatic species. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 484. 
\ Viverra ashtoni, sp. n., Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 379, with a 
woodcut, from Formosa. 
' ^Herpestes mungo. M. A. von Nordmann gives an interesting account of the 
habits of a specimen kept in captivity. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1803, p. 476. 
