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almost soot-coloured with faint grizzling. The fur banded black and white, generally 
with three black broader bands; the shorter hairs on the neck and head usually have 
the extreme tips also black. When the tip of the hair is light-coloured, as it is over the 
greater part of the body, it has a yellowish stain, but on the neck and head there is nP 
trace of this stain on the hairs. 
Skull long and flat, the facial portion very short, from the back of the orbits to the 
front of rhe premaxillee very much shorter than the cranial portion ; forehead rounded, 
profile evenly and gently sloping to the front of the nasals ; the zygomata evenly bowed, 
very powerful; orbits small, their lower rim on a plane with the squamosal processes of 
the zygomata ; postorbital processes frequently forming a complete circle; the auditory 
bullae moderately inflated, the anterior chamber perforated by a single well-marked 
foramen; the occipital crest very strongly developed. The incisive foramina are short, 
scarcely longer than broad; there is no postdental shelf of the maxilla. The carnassial 
tooth or fourth premolar is well developed, about half as long again as the first molar 
on the outer side ; the second molar minute, lying interior to the hinder cusp of the 
first molar, and rather less than a third of the size of that tooth in superficial extent. 
Basal length. 
Palatal length. 
Greatest breadth. 
Cranial breadth. 
Palatal breadth outside P™9- 4 . 
Lachrymal fossa to front of premaxilla 
Outside antero-posterior length of p^4 
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in. 2 
Brit. Mus. 
$ . Cairo. 
Suakin. 
No. 98.6.5.5. 
No. 91. 
mm. 
mm. 
92 
92 
55 
57 
46-5 
50 
34-5 
35 
30 
31 
24-3 
25 
255 
25 
97 
9-5 
5-9 
5 
3 
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1 his species is found in the Spanish Peninsula and over the greater part of Africa, 
with very slight modification in either form or colour. Within the area treated of in 
this book, it is only found in Egypt proper, so far as is at present known. Native 
Egyptian name ‘ Nems.’ 
Ihe Plate w’as drawn from a living female specimen obtained close to Mena 
House, near Cairo.—W. E. de W.] 
Dr. Anderson left the following notes on specimens examined in the Continental 
museums:— 
In the Frankfort Museum there is a skull. No. IV. N. 5**, labelled “ Herpestes 
