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Show 172 PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ALUROIDEA. [Feb. 7, Bonite,' p. 24, pl. 6), who have given an excellent figure of the external form, with an outline of the skull and teeth. The entire skeleton is represented by De Blainville on pl. 3 of his ' Osteographie ' (Viverra) ; while its skull is admirably figured in profile on pl. 7, the atlas, axis, sternum, and hyoid on pl. 9, its appendicular skeleton on pis. 10 and 11, and its dentition, both young and adult, on pl. 12. The animal comes from Borneo. It was erected by Dr. Gray, first into the tribe Cynogalina1 and then into the family Cynogalida2, mainly on the ground of the nose having no median groove beneath it, a character very useful for zoological purposes, but, as it appears to me, trivial as the mark of a family or subfamily. I do find, however, a groove beneath the nose, though none on the upper lip. Fig. 11. Pads of left pes of Cynogale. Its webbed feet, short tail, long moustaches3, together with its exceptional upper lip, serve, however, to mark it as a very distinct genus, as does also the absence of the supracondyloid groove of the humerus. The feet are much less bald than in Arctictis. The metatarsus, indeed, is hairless ; but the tarsus is clothed beneath with short hairs. The claws are rather elongated (cf. fig. 14 E). The pollex and hallux are very well developed. 1 P. Z. S. 1864, p. 521. 2 Cat. of Carnivora, p. 78. 3 When the head of this animal is viewed from above (as in S. Muller's figure) it presents a singular resemblance to the head of Potamogale. |