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Show 826 DR. J. E. <;RAY O N E U P L E R E S G O U D O T I . [Dec. 6, produced by a subanterior lobe on the inner side, and a more distinct lobe on the front edge, and a larger one on the hinder edge. The first tubercles triangular, nearly equilateral, with three blank tubercles on the outer side of the crown, and a larger tubercle on the auterior internal process. The second tubercular grinder smaller, triangular, rather wider than long, with concave arched sides. The three lower false grinders separated from each other by equal spaces like the upper ones -, the first conical, compressed, some distance from and twice the size of the lower canine, which it resembles in shape; the second larger, compressed, with a very slight lobe on the front and a more distinct lobe on the hinder edge, and a high central cone ; the third somewhat like the second but larger, with a more distinct anterior and a large posterior lobe. The lower carnivorous tooth oblong, with three anterior lobes placed in a triangle, and a large posterior one; the tubercular grinder similar to the preceding, but much larger and with larger anterior lobes, having a small lobe in the centre between the other three, and a very large hinder portion with a tubercle on the hinder margin. Head elongate ; nose very much produced, elongate, conical, acute, rounded beneath, with a very narrow central groove; whiskers slender, moderately long ; muzzle bald, cartilaginous; nostrils open on the side ; lower jaw narrow in front; ears rounded, hairy on the outside. Body elongate, rather slender, closely covered with hair ; legs moderate, of equal length. Soles of the feet with 6 pads, one central; toes 5 . 5, buried in the skin to the claws ; the front toes 4, with elongated arched compressed claws, the inner toe shorter ; claws of the hind feet short, of the inner toe abortive ; the hinder side of the tarsus hairy ; the tail rather shorter than the body, cylindrical, truncate, covered with abundance of hair, which is rather longer than that on the back. I believe the adult animal and its skull show that I placed the genus in its correct position in the ' Proceedings' of the Society in 1864, and in the 'Catalogue of Carnivorous Mammalia in the British Museum,' when I arranged it near Crossarchus, in the family Rhinogalidee. M . Doyere considered it an insectivorous animal, regarding the front double-rooted tooth in the lower jaw as a canine; but Blainville properly regarded it as more allied to the Viverridce. And this decision is proved by the examination of Blainville's figure of the young skull, tab. xii., and the examination of our older skull, both of which show that the small tooth in the upper jaw, which I have called tbe canine, is placed just behind the suture, between the maxillary and intermaxillary bones, which is the normal situation of the canine. It differs from the other genera of the family in tbe smallness of the head, the great slenderness of the nose, and in the small size of the canine teeth ; and for this reason I think it ought to form a separate tribe of the family Rhinogalidee, which would be called Euplerina. The head of the animal, and also the skull, becomes longer and more slender in comparison with its breadth as it arrives at the adult age ; and the great distance of the false grinders from each |