210 MEGALOTID^. 



black ; sides of neck, fore legs, and lower part of sides dull cinna- 

 mon ; chin and sides of muzzle black. 



Yulpes (Urocyon) littoralis, <S. Baird, Mumm. N. A. p. 143, t. 1 



(animal), t. 35. f. 2 (skull). 

 Urocyon littoralis, Gray, R Z. S. 1868, p. 522. 



Hah. California, Island of San Miguel. 



Scarcely more than half the size of the Grey Fox {U. vircjrmanus). 



F, Raccoon Dog. Tail short, bushy ; upper sectorial tooth compressed, 

 ihree-lobed, with a small internal tubercle. Temporal muscles separated 

 by a vase-shaped crotcn. — Gray, I. c. p. 622. 



16. NYCTEEEUTES. 



Tail short, bushy, straight. Teeth 42 ; premolars f . f , molars f . | ; 

 sectorial tooth compressed, with a small internal tubercle rather in 

 front of the fore edge of the body of the tooth. 



Skull broad ; nose moderate, tapering ; postorbital process thin, 

 rather concave above, bent down at the tip. Crown of the head 

 broad, vase-like, separating the temporal muscles nearly to the occi- 

 put. Lower edge of lower jaw straight. 



Nyctereutes, Temm. ; Gray, List of Mamm. 1840 ; P. Z. S, 1868, 

 p. 522. 



Nyctereutes procyonoides. (Tanate, or the Raccoon Dog.) B.M. 



Canis procyonoides. Gray, Uhist. Ind. Zool. ii. t. ; Mag. N. H. 1837, 



p. 578 ; Schrenck, Amurland, p. 53, t. 5. 

 Canis (Nyctereutes) viverrinus. Tern. Fauna Japon. t. 8 ; Schrenck, 



Reisen, tigs. 2-6. 

 Nyctereutes procyonoides, Gray, List of Mamm. B. M. p. 62 ; P. Z. S. 



1868, p. 522; Gerrard, Cat. of Bones of Mamm. p. 89. 



Hah. China? Japan (iJeeue) ; Amoorland. 



Fam. 11. MEGALOTIDtE. 



Teeth 46 : molars |- . f ; premolars | . f . Sectorial grinders | . \, 

 small ; upper triangular, with a broad internal lobe ; lower com- 

 pressed. Tubercular molars f . f ; upper oblong, transverse ; lower 

 four-sided, front lower largest, last lower least, the rest subequal. 

 Upper sectorial grinder short, triangular, as wide as long. Tail 

 short, straight, bushy, not reaching to the heels. 

 Megalotina, Gray, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 523. 



