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Show 1882.] PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ALUROIDEA. 501 fungiform papilla are moderately conspicuous. Conical papillae of intermediate size are placed at the sides of the hinder half of the tongue. In Crossarchus1 we have similar characters carried to a more exaggerated degree, the conical papilla of the dorsal patch being larger and the fungiform papilla being more conspicuous. The Fig. 4. Tongue of Proteles. c, conical papillae ; /, fungiform papilla?; f, points towards the much enlarged papillae; c.v, one of the two depressions in which lie the two circumvallate papillae. three circumvallate papilla form an angle of about 105°. The flattened papillae are very little conspicuous. Galidia has a tongue like that of Crossarchus, except that the papillae of the dorsal patch are still more enlarged. Hyana has for the most part a tongue like that of Cynictis and Galidia magnified ; but the flattened papilla are much larger relatively as well as absolutely, and are much more conspicuous. 1 Cuvier says (Lecons d'Anat. Comp. 2ud edit. vol. iv. le partie, p. 553) that he did not find a lytta in the Mangoustes. |
