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Show 156 PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ALUROIDEA. [Feb. 7, the accessory tubercle on that ridge larger; £"- is the largest deciduous tooth, and nearly as extended antero-posteriorly as is the - - ; finally, D-r bas a larger talon, which by itself constitutes nearly half the tooth. The external form of the Genet is figured by Buffon, and three kinds (" de Barbarie," " de Senegal," and " pantherine") by F. Cuvier in his 'Planches des Mamm.' De Blainville (Osteographie,' Viverra) gives the skull (plate viii.), details of the axial skeleton (plate ix.), and of the appendicular sketeton (plates x. and xi.). A very important difference between Genetta and Viverra consists in the absence in the former of the pouch or sac for storing the Fig. 5. External appearance of cutaneous folds related to the prescrotal scent-glands of the female of Genetta tigrina. a. Anus. a.g. Needles inserted into the aperture of the two anal glands. g1, g2, g3. Folds of scent-gland, v. Vagina. secretion of the scent-gland. Instead of this I found, in a female Genetta tigrina, only a shallow cutaneous fold or longitudinal median depression. This groove or fold extended from the small orifice of the vagina towards, but not nearly to, the anus. From this median superficial depression two longitudinal grooves extended forwards and outwards on either side, whereof the two posterior were the larger. Beneath these grooves were two scent-glands, the product of which could be forced (by squeezing) through a multitude of minute pores into the depressed parts of the folds-the hinder rather than the anterior of the two pairs of diverging ones. Similar glands and folds were found by M . Chatin in the male of Genetta |