1. Lvc.uix. 181 



The subfamilies intiy be thus urranged : — 



(1. Lycaonina \ 

 2. Canixa I Tail short, straight, bushy. 

 Wolves J 

 Cani7ua (Dogs) Tail elongate, curled to the left. 



^^ Fox-tailed Wolves... Tail elongate, straight. 



II. Skiill thin; postorbital f 1. Foxes Tail elongate, soft, bushy. 



process thin, concave j 2. Bristle-tailed Foxes. Tail elongate, bristly, bushy, 

 above. Vulpin.e [3. Eaccoon Dog Tail short, straight, bushy. 



Section I. Lupine. Shiill thick, solid; pontorbifal process thick, convex 

 above, ami bent down at the end. 



Lupinse, part., Bunneister and Spencer Baird ; Gray, P. Z. S. 18G8, 

 p. 495. 



Subfam. I. LYCAONINA. 



Head short, broad ; nose short, broad. Teeth large, close toge- 

 ther. Palate very broad, short. 



Lycaonina, 6V«y, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 495. 



1. LYCAON. (Hyana Dog.) 



Skull short, broad ; nose short, broad, swoUcn ; palate short, very 

 broad ; internal nasal opening broad. Postorbital process thick, 

 convex above, bent down at the end. Teeth 42 ; false grinders | . ■}^ ; 

 sectorial j •{ ; molars '^ .% ; the upper and lower premolars acutely 

 dentated on the front and, especially, on the hinder edge ; upper 

 sectorial teeth strong, elongate, trigonal, broad, with a small but 

 wcR-marked interior lobe in front. First upper tubercidar tooth 

 large, with a broad rounded internal lobe ; the second upper tuber- 

 cular oblong transverse, much smaller ; lower hinder tubercular very 

 small, cylindrical. 



Lycaon, Brooks ; Gray, P. Z. S. 18G8, p. 495. 



This group is intermediate between the Hj'tena and the Dog. 

 The manner of copulation is said to be different from the Dog's, and 

 similar to that of the Hyaena. 



, Lycaon venations. (Simir or Mebbia.) B.M. 



Kynos pictus, KitppcU. 



Lycaon tricolor, Brooks. 



Lycaon typicus, A. Smith. 



Lycaon venaticu.t, Graif, Cat. Mamm. B. M. p. G7 ; /'. Z. S. 18(58, 



'p. 497; Gerrard, Cat", of Bones in B. M. p. SKI. 

 Oanis aureus, Thunbery, Mem. Acad. Pe'tersb. iii. p. .■)02. 

 Ilyajna picta, Temm. Ann. Gen. Sci. Phys. iii. p. o4, t. 35; Kiihl, 



Beitr. p. 75. 

 Ilya^na venatica, Burch. Travels, i. p. 4.5(!, fig., ii. pp. 222, 232. 

 Chion hvenoide, Car. Oss. Foss. iv. p. 38t!. 

 HyaMia Do-. Griffith, A. K. 



