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minusve callosd, inferne compresso-subcanaliculatd, margine rectd, 

 vix denticulatd ; labro semi-elliptico, intus incrassato. 



Hah. Cayenne ? 



Alt. 20, lat. 23, conv. 15 mill. 



B. Ovata vel ovato-oblongce. 



4. Nerita zelandica. Ner. testa ovato-oblongd, ventricosd, te- 

 nuiusculd ; anfractibus 3-4 supremis scepius derosis, infimo sub' 

 suturd horizontaliterque compresso ; nigrd lineis ravidis longitudi- 

 nalibus angulato-flexuosis creberrimis pictd, interdum lutescente 

 superne et inferne late fasciatd ; columelld subcompressd, croced, 

 margine denticulatd et in medio vix arcuatd ; labro tenui, margine 

 sordide rubente, intus lacteo ac parum incrassato. 



Hab. New Zealand : on stones in mountain-streams. 



Alt. 19-20, lat. 18-19, conv. 12 mill. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



ON A NEW GENUS OF DOGS. BY J. E. GRAY, ESQ. 



Cynalicus, Gray. 

 Cutting teeth — , slightly and unequally 3-lobed, the outer on each 



side and in each jaw larger: canines conical, hooked. Grinders 



5-5 



gig, the three false grinders oblique, diverging ; the flesh tooth thick, 



broad, with a very small lobe on the front of the inner edge ; the tu- 

 bercular grinder rather large, oblong, transverse, 3-tubercled : the 

 four lower false grinders in a regular series, the tubercular grinders 

 small, roundish. 



The head large, the legs short, thick. Toes 5 — 4 ; claws com- 

 pressed, curved, rather elongated, rather acute. Tail moderate, rather 

 bushy, reaching to the heel. 



This genus agrees with Cuon in the shortness and broadness of 

 the face and of the skull, and in the absence of the second hinder tu- 

 bercular grinder in the lower jaws, but differs from it in this tooth 

 being also absent in the upper one. In this latter character it agrees 

 with Hycana, but is at once known from that genus by the larger 

 size of the upper tubercular grinder and the number of the lower 

 grinders. 



Cynalicus melanogaster. 



Fulvous, face and back slightly blackish, varied ; chest, lower parts 

 of sides, belly, limbs and tail black. 



Hab. Brazils. British Museum. 



Length of body and head 26 inches ; of tail 5 inches; entire 31 

 inches. 



I may here remark that Canis sumatrensis and Canis alpinus, the 

 red wolves of Sumatra and Siberia, belong to the genus Cuon. Canis 

 simensis, the long-nosed Abyssinian wolf, is a true dog, but the face 

 of the skull is very narrow, and even more elongated than that of the 



