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Show 1882.] PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ALUROIDEA. 165 * j M 2 size; and ~2 are fairly developed. In other respects the cranial and dental characters are those of Paradoxurus. Temminck says nothing about the scent- or prescrotal gland, which I presume is as in Paradoxurus. S. Miiller is also silent about it. Arctogale, then, differs from Viverra as to Nos. 24, 33, 47, 48, 49, and 50. Fig. 9. Half basis cranii (A) and balf mandible (B) of Arctogale. a, Anterior opening of the alisphenoid canal; o, foramen ovale; c, carotid canal. The genus Hemigalea was instituted by Jourdan (Compt. Rend. 1837, p. 442, Ann. des Sc. Nat. vol. viii. p. 277) for the Paradoxurus derbianus of Gray (P.Z. S. 1837, p. 07, and Loudon's Mag. Nat. Hist. i. 1837, p. 579). It is the Viverra hardwickii of Gray (Spic. Zool. ii p. 9, t. i.), the Viverra boiei of S. Muller (Zoog. Ind. Arcbip. p. 121, t. xviii., which contains a representation of the external form, skull, and dentition), and the Hemigale zebre of the |