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Show 160 PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ALUROIDEA. [Feb. 7, could be the less objected to, since I have found in Prionodon pardicolor a tendency to a narrow prolongation upwards of "lie plantar pad, which I have not found in Prionodon gracilis. I hold them therefore distinct quite provisionally and doubtfully. As this species seems never to have been represented, I have thought it well to figure it now. Fig. 7. External form of Poiana. The genera yet noticed (Viverra, Viverricula, Fossa, Genetta, Prionodon, and Poiana) form a distinct and very closely allied group, the characters of which may be most conveniently given when the next set of forms has been passed in review. The genus which it seems to m e may best be taken next is the large and polymorphic genus Paradoxurus. It contains about a dozen (mostly more or less imperfectly defined) species, which all come from the Asiatic region, from China, Formosa, Nepal and Tenasserim, to Madras, the Andaman Islands, Ceylon, Malacca, |