78 CYNOOfALIDJE. 



Fam. 5. CYNOGALID^. 



Head clougate, face pi'oduced. Nose rather produced ; underside 

 convex, hairy, without any central longitudinal groove. Fur very 

 dense, close, erect, soft, and elastic. Tail cylindrical, short. Toes 

 short, covered with dense hairs, slightly webbed at the base ; the 

 claws short, compressed, retractile ; the soles of the hind feet broad, 

 bald for about one-third of their length, the heels hairy. Frenum 

 covered with hair. Skull — orbits only slightly defined above. 



Viveri-idse, tribe Cynogalina, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 621. 



CYNOGALE. 



Head elongate. Nose broad, swollen ; underside haiiy, without 

 any central groove. Ears small, rounded, covered with short hairs. 

 Whiskers rigid, elongate ; a tuft of longer, more rigid hairs under 

 the ears and over the eyes. Tail much shorter than the body, cy- 

 lindrical, covered with short hair like that on the body. Frenum 

 covered with hair. SkuU elongate ; face much produced, com- 

 pressed ; orbits not defined at all behind, confluent with the zygo- 

 matic cavity ; zygomatic arches strong ; forehead between the orbits 

 very narrow. Teeth 40 ; canines compressed ; false grinders com- 

 pressed, 3 on each side in each jaw, third without any inner lobe ; 

 flesh-tooth triangular, largely tubercular, nearly as wide as the 

 length of the outer edge ; inner lobe very large, rounded on the 

 middle of the inner side ; tubercular grinders two on each side in 

 each jaw, large, rounded on the inner edge, rather wider than the 

 length of the outer edge, the hinder one smaller, but similar to the 

 front one in shape. 



Cvnogale, Grmj, Mof/. Nat. Hist. 1836, i. p. 579 ; P. Z. S. 1836, p. 86 ; 



'1864, p. 522 (not j)« Chailhi). 

 Lamictis, De Blainvillc, Cumptes Hetidus, 1837, p. 56. 

 Potamophilus, S. Iluller, Zooy. hid. Arch. p. 103 (1839). 



Cynogale velox, Du Chaillu, is an insectivorous mammal. 



Cynogale Bennettii. B.M. 



Cynogale Bennettii, Gray, May. N. H. i. p. 679 (183G) ; Troc. Zool. 



Soc. 1836, p. 86 ; Eydovx 8f Suul. Voy. Bonite, t. 

 Viverra lamictis cntc\\w\&s, Jourdan, Ann. Set. Nat. viii. p. 281, t. 8 « 



(1837) ; BlAiiimiUe Ann. Sci. Nat. xiii.; Ostioyraph. t. 12 (teetli). 

 Potamophilus toarbatus, S. Midler, Zooy. Ind. Archi^ycl, t. 17. 

 Cynogale barbata, Schinz, Syn. Mam. i. p. 388. 



Hah. Borneo (Honeyivood). 



Skull — length 4| inches ; nose 1 inch 10 lines ; width of the brain- 

 case 1 inch 41 lines, of zygomatic arch 2| lines. 



