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OTHER CIVETS 



Arctogale is another Oriental genus with very small teeth, those 

 of the molar series being hardly in contact. The soles of the feet are 

 more naked than in the last genus, and the scent glands, if present, 

 appear to be small and ill developed. It has also a long tail, and 

 is arboreal in way of life. There is " nothing particular recorded " 

 as to its habits. The species are A. leucotis and A. stigmatica. 



Closely allied to both the last genera is Hemigale, also 

 an Oriental genus. It is to be distinguished from Paradoxurus 



FIG. 201. Hardwicke's Civet Cat. Hemigale hardtmcki. x . (From Mature.) 



by having the soles of the feet much less naked, though they are 

 more so than in Viverra or Prionodon. The coloration of the 

 species, If. Jiardivicki (a Malayan animal), is very peculiar. The 

 body is banded with five or six broad transverse stripes, and the 

 basal portion of the tail is also ringed, an uncommon feature in 

 the group. A second species of this genus is H. hosei, from Borneo. 

 It is blackish in colour, but is not a melanic variety of the last. 



Nandinia appears never to possess a caecum. 1 It is also 

 peculiar among Carnivora in the non-ossification of the hinder 



1 Flower, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 683. 



