168 HEKPESTIDiE. 



as massive as, and agreeing very generally in proportion of parts and 

 position or form of the internal lobes with, those of A. paludosus ; but 

 they are rather slender and longer comparatively in all their parts. 

 The palate also is much narrower and longer. The third upper false 

 molar has a small central internal lobe. The front edge of the flesh- 

 tooth is fully two-thirds the length of the outer edge ; the hinder 

 lobe of it is narrow, and angular behind. The front tubercular 

 molar has a very oblique outer edge. The brain-case is rather more 

 than half the entire length. 



The length of the skull 3| inches ; the width of the brain-case 

 1^ inch, of the zygomatic arch 2| inches. 



The lower jaw broad in front, narrow behind, without any tu- 

 bercles on the lower edge under the end of the tooth-line. False 

 grinders 4.4; the front very small, curved, close at the front of the 

 second. The tubercular grinder very large, oblong, subcircular, with 

 two large unequal tubercles on the front and a very large one on the 

 hinder part of the crown. 



The lower jaw is distingiiished from that of the genus Herpestes 

 by having no prominence or tubercle on the lower edge under the 

 hinder end of the tooth-line. 



12. ONYCHOGALE. 



Body slender. Tail conical, hairy, about as long as the body. 

 Toes 5.5; inner toes small ; front claws very long, compressed, 

 curved. Teeth 40 ; false grinders | . | . 



Onychogale, Grmj, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 570. 



The hinder end of the skuU deeply and sharply notched, instead 

 of being transversely truncated as in the small Herpestes. The 

 notch in the living animal is filled ap with a cartilaginous septum. 



Onychogale Maccarthiae. B.M. 



Red-brown ; hair elongate, flaccid, pale brown, with a broad, thick, 

 subterminal band and a long whitish-brown tip ; fur of hands and 

 face shorter. Feet blackish brown ; hair white-tipped. Tail redder ; 

 hair elongate, red, one-coloured. Ears rounded, hairy. 



Herpestes Maccarthiae, Gray, B. M. ; Gerrard, Cat. of Bones B. M. 



p. 75. 

 Cynictis Maccai'thise, Gray, P. Z. S. 1851, p. 1.31, Mamm. pi. 31 ; 



Ann. Sr Mag. N. H. 185.3, xii. p. 47. 

 Herpestes fidvescens, KeJaart, Ceylon. 

 Onychogale Maccarthia3, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 570. 



Hah. Ceylon {Lady Maccarthy). 



13. HELOGALE. 



Body slender. Head oval. Ears distant. Toes 5.5; the inner 

 toe small ; front claws rather elongate, compressed, acute. Soles of 

 the hind feet partly bald. Tail conical, covered with elongate hairs. 



