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Show 120 ON NEW MAMMALS FROM NORTHERN NYASALAND. [Feb. 18, Face, crown, and back uniformly grizzled grey. Under surface dull greyish brown, more fulvous on throat and inguinal region. Feet grizzled greyish proximally, fulvous on digits. Hob. Abyssinia and Somali. (2) HELOGALE UNDULATA Peters. Herpestes undulatus Peters, Reise Mossamb. p. 114, pi. xxv. (1852). Body grizzled greyish, more or less suffused with rufous. Face, especially muzzle, strongly rufous. Grown like back. Under surface dull greyish brown. Hands and feet deep rufous. Hab. British East Africa, German East Africa, and Mozambique. (3) H. VICTORINA, sp. n. Body pale grizzled grey, suffused with ochraceous yellow. Muzzle fulvous. Crown like back. Under surface from chin to anus dull buffy yellow7. Hands and feet also buffy yellow. Tail like body above, buffy below. Head and body of type 243 mm.; tail 145 ; hind foot, s. u. 44. Skull-greatest length 52; zygomatic breadth 31 ; palate length 2'5 ; greatest diameter of px 5*5. Type. Male. B.M. No. 93.5.1.2. Collected October 25, 1892, by the Rev. F. C. Smith. Presented by Canon Tristram. Three specimens examined. Hab. Region of the Victoria Nyanza. Type from Nassa, on Speke Gulf, south end of the lake. Usambiro, Victoria Nyanza (Emin Pasha). (4) H. VARIA Thos. As above. (5) H. FARVULA Sund. Herpestes parvulus Sund. CEfv. K. Vet.-Ak. Forhandl. 1846, p. 121. Size small. Colour uniformly dark, finely grizzled brown throughout, on head, body, belly, and limbs. Hab. S.E. Africa : Natal, Zululand, &c. FUNISCIURUS YULEI, sp. n. No stripes. Premolars j. Superficial appearance somewhat as in F. cepapi. Size rather larger than in that species. Fur of medium harshness; hairs of back about 10 mm. in length. General colour above pale coarsely grizzled tawny, greyer over the shoulders, though this may be due to old age. Sides greyish tawny, much lighter than the dorsal area, though the line of distinction is not sharply defined. Under surface ill-defined whitish, whiter on the chest and groins, mixed with greyish on the belly. Sides of muzzle and lings round eyes whitish. Crown grizzled tawny. Ears conparatively |