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Show 1882.] PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ALUROIDEA. 173 The colour of the coat is red-brown, with no markings save a very narrow black line along the crown of the elongated head. The ears are small, the whiskers very long. The hair is crisp, short, and thick. The tail is very short, tapering rapidly. A bunch of whisker grows from below each ear as well as on each side of the nose. The claws are strong, sharp, and retractile. Length of head and body about 68"-5, that of tail about 14"*5. The cranium is of an intermediate type-somewhat Civet-like and Paradoxure-like. The bulla is shaped like that of the Civet, but is less prominent. The anterior part of it is especially flattened. The opening of the external auditory meatus is small. The postorbital processes are very small indeed ; but the skull is extremely narrowed and pinched in behind them. The condyloid foramen is quite concealed. The sagittal ridge is pretty well developed, and the lambdoidal ridge is very large. The paroccipital is depending. The mastoid is prominent, though not so markedly so as in Nandinia. There is an alisphenoid canal which opens posteriorly opposite and close to the foramen ovale. The carotid canal opens posteriorly near the middle of the inner margin of the larger chamber of the bulla ; while anteriorly the carotid artery enters by the foramen lacerum, notching the sphenoid. There is a pterygoid fossa, and a very large infraorbital foramen, which opens above the - . The palate is exceptional in shape, having nearly parallel lateral margins. Dentally, Cynogale is a much modified Paradoxure. The differences are mainly as follows: - is relatively larger and more nearly equal to --. -- is almost quite as large as -*-, which has its inner tubercle still larger in proportion to the rest of the tooth than in Paradoxurus. It has three external cusps, the first and third being largely and equally developed, and the middle cusp not descending very much below them, a form of tooth unlike that of any other yet here-described Viverrine animal. - is of very great vertical extent (relatively greater than any yet described here) ; and the same may be said of -*-, which is somewhat recurved towards its apex. -J-- is a longish caniniform tooth, recurved towards its apex and placed close behind the canine. The lower premolars are correspondingly developed, p-g has two small posterior basal cusps. p-2 has a very long talon with two cusps (one before the other), and then also an accessory anterior cusp. g-j has a talon which is so large that it forms half the crown of the tooth, and bears three or four tubercles. As to the milk-dentition, - is very much like - . - is intermediate in character between -^- and -"-, but is more like ?*-?. Instead of being much like the permanent sectorial (as in Genetta and so many other forms), its very small inner tubercle is placed inside quite the hindest part of the tooth. - is very peculiar : it is like the permanent sectorial, but with the inner part rather more posterior in position, and with a talon (bearing an inner |