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Show 1882.] PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ALUROIDEA. 171 The tongue is much like that of the Civet, and with no patch of greatly enlarged papillse on its anterior half. The characters before given of Viverra applv also to Nandinia, except nos. 3, 7, 14, 24, 28, 35, 37, 38,40,42, 43, 45 (sometimes), 46, and 54. With Nandinia closes the second set of forms of the subfamily Viverrina ; and the characters of these two sets may be expressed as follows :- In the Viverrine section of the Viverrina we find :- (I) Auditory bulla entirely ankylosed into one mass. (2) Bulla not always, or greatly, narrowing anteriorly. (3) Palate never much prolonged beyond hindmost molars. (4) Mastoid never very prominent. (5) A caecum constantly present. (6) Teeth always sectorial, never very small; anterior premolars not very long. (7) Margins of palate not nearly parallel. (8) A supracondyloid foramen to the humerus. (9) A median groove beneath the nose on the upper lip. (10) Tarsus and. metatarsus often entirely hairy, never entirely naked. (11) Tail long. In the Paradoxurine section we meet with the following cha-arcters:- (1) Auditory bulla often in two pieces ; hinder chamber in one species not ossified. (2) Bulla, when ossified, always greatly narrowing anteriorly. (3) Palate sometimes much prolonged beyond last molars. (4) Mastoid in one form very prominent. (5) Caecum sometimes absent. (6) Teeth sometimes but little sectorial and occasionally very small ; anterior premolars not very long, (7) Margins of palate not nearly parallel. (8) A supracondyloid foramen to humerus. (9) A median groove beneath the nose, on the upper lip. (10) Tarsus and metatarsus often entirely naked, never entirely hairy. (11) Tail long. The genus Cynogale was founded by Gray1 on a skin in the collection of our Society, supposed to have formed part of the collection of Sir Stamford Raffles, and therefore to have come from Sumatra. It was described and figured in 1837 by De Blainville, under the name Viverra carcharias, who gives some anatomical details (Ann. Sc. Nat. 2e ser. vii. p. 280, pl. 8) ; and in 1839 by S. Miiller (Zoog. Ind. Archip. p. 115, pl. 17, showing the external form, skull, and dentition), under the name Potamophilus barbatus ; and in 1841 by M M . Eydoux and Souleyet (in 'Voyage de la 1 P. Z. S. 1836, p. 88. |