HYiENID^. 211 



Skull elongate ; nose slender, elongate. Temporal muscles sepa- 

 rated by a broad flat crown to the occiput, which is formed with a 

 raised edge. The three first upper grinders are compressed ; the 

 front one in the middle of a wide space, veiy small; the hinder pre- 

 molar triangular, about as long as broad, and the three following 

 oblong transverse, the two front subequal, and the hinder smaller ; 

 the lower premolars compressed ; the flesh-tooth small, with a fine 

 tubercle ; these teeth become worn down with a flat crown. 



MEaALOTIS. 



Forehead and crown flat, broad, with a raised margin, and sepa- 

 rating the temporal muscles to the occiput. Skull elongate ; face 

 very long, tapering. Teeth 48. Grinders f . f . Premolars | . f . 

 Sectoiial J- . \, small ; upper triangular, with a broad internal lobe ; 

 lower compressed. Tubercular molars f . |^ ; front lower largest, 

 last lower least, the rest subequal. 



Megalotis, Blainv. Ann. Franq. et Etrami. iVAnat. i. t. 8. f. 1, 1 «, 6 



(skull and teeth ) ; Gray, P. Z. S. 18G8, p. 523. 

 Agrodius, H. Smith, 1839. 

 Otocyon, Licht. 



This genus has the teeth very like those of the suborder Omnivora. 



Megalotis Lalandii. B.M. 



Canis megalotis, Desm. Mumm. Sitj>p/. p. 538; Blainv. Ostengr. t. 1 



(skeleton), t. 4 (skull). 

 Canis Lalandii, Desin. Diet. Class. (T H. N. iv. p. 18, t. 

 Megalotis Lalandii, Gray, Grif. An. Kinqd. t. 54 ; V. Z. S. 18(38. 



p. 523. 

 Otocyon caft'er, Licht. 



Otocyon Lalandii, Gerrard, Cat. of B. of Mannn. p. 90. 

 The Fennec of Delalande, Griffith, A. K. ii. t. 54, p. 372 (from Mas. 



Paris). 



Hah. South Africa ; Cape of Good Hope (^Lalande). 



Fam. 12. HYiENID^. 



Head rather elongate ; nose rounded, flat and bald beneath, with 

 a central longitudinal groove. Skull — muzzle narrowed in front. 

 Teeth large, well-developed, 34. Tubercular grinders single, only 

 in the upper jaw. Feet produced ; toes straight, free, with blunt, 

 exposed, worn claws. Tail sliort, bushy. 



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