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Show 508 PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ALUROIDEA. [June 6, In Prionodon I found the caecum to be very small and short, but strongly curved and acutely pointed. Hunter says (* Essays and Observations,' vol. ii. p. 66) that in the Ichneumon there is no caecum. It is therefore perhaps occasionally Fig. 8. A. Caecum of Genetta. B. Osecum of Prionodon. C. Caecum of Galidia. D. Caecum of Cynictis. absent in that large genus. In a spirit-specimen of Herpestes, however, I found a long, slender and pointed caecum ; while in the series of dried caeca of Herpestes in the College of Surgeons some caeca are rather long, while others are short. Specimens of Paradoxurus exhibit a similar range of variation from moderately long to short and rounded. In Suricata the ceecum is short, and shaped much as in the Cat. |
