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Show 1882.] PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ALUROIDEA. 151 xm. p. 163, pl. 21. It is also described and well-figured by Dr. Gray, in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 869, pl. 74, with a woodcut of the skull, which is long and narrow, approaching Viverricula in this respect. The bulla is shaped much as in Viverra; there is a distinct alisphenoid canal; the paroccipital process depends a little below the bulla. There is, on the skull, a deep antero-posteriorly directed groove along the middle of the dorsum of the forehead and muzzle. The Fig. 2. Plantar surface of left pes of Fossa. 1. Small pad adjacent to hallux ; 2. Ditto beneath distal part of tarsus. postorbital processes are not so elongated as in Viverricula. The closely resemble those of Viverra; but the talon of ^ is rather smaller; ^ has five cusps, three in front and two behind. Fossa therefore agrees with Viverra in all the characters of the latter genus before enumerated, except sometimes No. 15, possibly No. 18, and certainly Nos. 24, 38, 39, 40, 42, & 43. Tne genus Genetta consists apparently of five species, distributed |