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Show 184 PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ALUROIDEA. [Feb. 7, The palate is but moderately prolonged behind the last molars. The angle of the mandible is somewhat everted, i. e. bent in the opposite way to that in which it is bent in Marsupials The skull of the Suricate is figured by D e Blainville (Osteog., Viverra) on plate 5, its appendicular skeleton on plates 10 and 11 and its dentition (including the milk-teeth) on plate 12. The teeth are also figured in F. Cuvier's * Dents des Mammiferes, plate 35. I fin(j *L? a n d H-J to be very much extended transversely, but to be very slightly trihedral in horizontal section. - is also much extended transversely. ^ is shaped very much as in Crossarchus, Fig. 13. Half basis cranii (A) and half mandible (B) of Suricata. c, carotid foramen; /, fissure in floor of auditory meatus. while - differs in having its hinder margin hardly, or not at all, concave. - has its inner tubercle still larger than in Crossarchus; and it descends quite as much as does the middle one of the three outer cusps, which very little exceeds in size the other two outer ones. -1- and -"- are larger and stronger than in Crossarchus; and - is again absent. ^-^ is m u c h as in Crossarchus, but smaller. jj-j is higher and antero-posteriorly shorter; its talon bears two cusps side by side, or three cusps in a semicircle; its anterior part bears two large cusps side by side. The postero-internal cusp of the front part of this tooth of Crossarchus has here become rudimentary. |