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Show 1868.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE HY^ENADiE. 525 Striped Hycena, Penn. Hycena virgata, Hodgs. MS., P. Z. S. 1856, p. 397- H. fasciata, Thunb. Hab. North, West, and South Africa. 2. CROCUTA. Subanal gland none. Tubercular grinders of the upper jaw small, with two roots. Flesh-tooth of the under (?) jaw with unequal lobes ; the front lobe small, and the hinder one broad. Fur spotted. The hinder legs short. Crocuta, Kaup, Gray. CROCUTA MACULATA. B.M. Canis crocuta, Erxl. Syst. 575. Hycena crocuta, Zimmerm. Geogr. ii. 256 ; Busk, Proc. Linn. Soc. 1866, p. 71. H. capensis, Desm. Mamm. 216. H. maculata, Thunb. Acad, de St. Petersb. iii. 303. IH. rufa, Cuv. Oss. Foss. Spotted Hycena, Penn. Syn. 162, t. 17. Tyger wolf, Kolbe, Vorgeb. 171, t. 8. f. 5. Crocuta maculata, Kaup, Isis, 1829, p. 1144. Hab. South Africa. Section II. Teeth rudimentary, far apart. 3. PROTELES. Grinders £^, far apart, rudimentary; no hinder upper tubercular grinder. G. and F. Cuvier arranged this genus with the Viverrce, Blainville with the Dogs. It has the external form and colours of the Hycena. PROTELES LALANDII. Aard Wolf. B.M. Grey, black-banded. Proteles lalandii, I. Geoff. Me'm. Mus. xi. 370, t. 20 ; Blainville, Osteog. (Canis) t. 4 (skeleton). Viverra hyeenoides, Desm. Mamm. 538. Genette hyeno'ide, Cuv. Os. Foss. iv. 388. Civette hyeno'ide, F. Cuv. Diet. Sc. Nat. xii. 300. Proteles cristatus, I. Geoffr. Mag. de Zool. 1841, i. t. 30 (skull) ; Gerrard, Cat. of Bones of Mamm. 70. Hab. South Africa : Cape of Good Hope. |