MAMMALS OF LIBERIA o81 
Genetta johnstoni Pocock. Johnston’s Blotched Genet 
Genetta johnstoni Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1907, p. 1041, pl. 54, figs. 1, 2. 
_ A genet with relatively short hair; tail with eight black rings, alternating with shorter pale 
rings; ground color ocher yellow to sandy gray, with spots on sides reddish, forming distinct length- 
wise rows; a black spinal stripe; limbs dark. 
This is probably a local race of G. pardina, to which the specimens secured 
by Buttikofer at Buluma, and on the Junk and Cess rivers were referred by 
Jentink. Pocock has named the Liberian animal as a distinct race on the basis 
of native skins from the interior of the country obtained by Leighton. 
Poiana richardsoni liberiensis Pocock. Linsang 
Poiana richardsoni liberiensis Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1907, p. 1043, pl. 54, fig. 8: interiur 
of Liberia. ‘ 
A small genet with tail longer than head and body; ground color rich yellowish fawn, the body 
marked with four or five longitudinal rows of dark oblong spots; tail with about twelve black cross- 
bands alternating with white ones; under surfaces of body white. 
This species was recorded from Liberia for the first time by Pocock, who 
based the description of the Liberian race upon six skins collected by Leighton. 
The illustration indicates that these were native flat skins with the head as 
usual, removed. Pocock mentions another specimen in the British Museum 
supposed to have come from Sierra Leone. In the typical P. richardsoni the 
white of the under parts is more creamy and the ground color above is darker 
than in liberiensis (the name first used by the describer, although on p. 1045 
in his summary key, he inadvertently uses instead the name leightonz). 
Genetta poensis Waterhouse. Dark Genet 
Genetta poensis Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1838, p. 59: Fernando Po. 
Ground color buffy gray, with numerous small blackish-brown spots on the body tending to be 
arranged in lengthwise rows; feet and belly blackish brown; tail with several dark bands alter- 
nating with paler ones. 
Pocock (1907a) includes a description of an adult skin in his report on 
Liberian mammals collected by Leighton, and figures this in his Plate 54, fig. 4. 
In its predominantly dark color it resembles the Cameroon G. aubryana of 
which it is doubtless a close relative. At Gbanga the junior author secured 
the skin of a kitten from one of the natives, as well as an adult skin. 
Nandinia binotata (Gray). Palm Civet; ‘‘Raccoon”’ 
Viverra binotata Gray, Spic. Zool., vol. 2, p. 9, 1830: Ashanti. 
Length of adult about 1000 mm.; ground color above grizzled gray faintly washed with buff 
or tawny, under parts paler; about five rows of rounded spots on sides of body; tail long, an- 
nulated, the rings frequently incomplete. Two small pale shoulder spots are diagnostic. West 
African forest area. 
The two small pale spots on the shoulders are a distinctive mark of this 
tree civet, whose feet are specially provided with roughened pads for help in 
climbing. We did not meet with this species although Bittikofer secured 
