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Show 158 PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ALUROIDEA. [Feb. 7, As to any scent-or prescrotal gland, Mr. Hodgson says1:-"Anal gland very apparently present, but the exact character of it not determinable.'' Horsfield records2 of Viverra, " Folhculos gandu-losos inter genitalia et anum ;" but of Prionodon be says Folhculos supra anum nullos," but with a note of interrogation. The specimen Fig. 6. Pads of Prionodon. A. Pads of left manus. B. Pads of left pes. examined by me was a male. Not only was there no opening in it between the penis and testes, but no glandular structure in that situation beneath the skin could be detected, either by m e or by Mr. "William Pearson, who assisted me in the dissection. There were the usual anal glands and a pair of exceedingly large Cowper's glands, each of them about equalling in size the whole of the bilobed prostate. The skull has its general shape and proportions and the form of the auditory bulla much as in Genetta. The condyloid foramen is exposed. The paroccipital is neither depending nor prominent, and the mastoid no more prominent than in the Genets. There is a long alisphenoid canal, which opens behind in a depression common to it and to the foramen ovale. The postorbital processes are less marked than in any hitherto ; and the skull is antero-posteriorly 1 Calcutta Journal of Nat. Hist. vol. ii. part 2 (1842), p. 51. 2 ' Zoological Researches.' |
