Herpestes javanicus auropunctatus Hodgson
Natural prey.—Epilampra wheeleri, Eurycotis improcera, Panchlora nivea, Pycnoscelus surinamensis, and others unidentified to species, St. Croix and Puerto Rico (Wolcott, 1953): Based on 37 or more cockroaches obtained from stomachs of 42 mongooses collected in St. Croix (by Seaman) and 56 collected in Puerto Rico (by Pimentel).
Pimentel (personal communication, 1958) has given us the following percentage occurrence of cockroach species in the total number of mongoose stomachs that he examined in Puerto Rico: Epilampra wheeleri 1.8, Ischnoptera rufa rufa 3.6, Panchlora nivea 1.8, Periplaneta americana 1.8, and Pycnoscelus surinamensis 19.6.
Herpestes sp.
Natural prey.—Periplaneta americana and Periplaneta australasiae, Hawaii (Perkins, 1913): Large numbers of these cockroaches are devoured.
Cockroach, East Africa (Loveridge, 1923): Cockroach remains found in stomach of mongoose.
Family FELIDAE
Felis catus Linnaeus
Natural prey.—Periplaneta americana, Hawaii (Williams et al., 1931).
Cockroaches, U.S.A., Arizona (Stahnke, personal communication, 1953).