CERCOLEi'XID^. 245 



Fam. 4. CERCOLEPTIDiE. 



Tail elongate, subejiiudrical, covered with shortish hairs, pre- 

 lieusile. Soles of the feet bald. 



Cercoleptiua, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. ; P. Z. S. 1864, p. 706. 



CEECOLEPTES. 



Head rounded. Nose short, acuminated. Ears oblong. Toes 5.5. 

 Soles naked. Claws short, sharp. Tail elongate, hairy, prehensile. 

 Teats two, venti'al. 



SkuU ovate. Nose short, shelving. Forehead arched. Teeth : — 

 cutting |, regular, lower rather shelving out ; canines grooved ; 

 giinders f . |-, two front conical, third like flesh-tooth ; tubercular 

 ovate, flat. The lower jaw thick, with a well-developed inferior 

 angle. Brain ovate ; case ventricose. Orbit incomplete ; suborbital 

 foramen large, single. Chin long, well marked. 



Cercoleptes, Illiffer; Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 706. 

 Kinkajou, Lacepkle. 

 Potos, Ciivier. 

 Caudivolvulus, Desm. 



Pi'ofessor Owen has pubhshed some notes on the anatomy (see 

 P. Z. S. 1835, p. 119). 



Cercoleptes caudivolvulus. B.M. 



Fulvous. 



Viveri'a caudivolvulus, Pallas, in Schreb. Saugeth. p. 453, t. li'5 B. 



Ursiis caudivolvulus, Cut: Tab. Elern. p. 113, 1798. 



Potos caudivolvidus, Gcuff. Mm. Pariit; Desm. Mamm. p. 171. 



Caudivolvulus fla\-iis, Tiedem. Zool. i. p. 381. 



Cercoleptes megalotus, Martin, P. Z. S. 18.36, p. 83; Schinz, S, M. 



p. 311. 

 Cercoleptes brachvotus, Martin, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 83 ; Schinz, S. M. 



p. .311. 

 Cercoleptes caudivolvulus, Illiffer, Prod. p. 127 ; FiscJier, Syn. Mamm. 



p. ir)0; Gray, Cat. Mamm.'B. i)/. p. 7.5; P. Z. 6'. 1848, p. 76. 

 Lemur flavus, Schreb. Siiiiyeth. p. 14o, t. 42 (fig. Pom.) ; De Blainv. 



Oste'oyr. Subursi, t. o (skeleton), t. 7 (skidl). 

 ? Lemur bicolor, Penn. ; Miller, Cim. Pliys. t. (badly coloured). 

 Yellow Maucacoco, Pe7in. Syn. p. 138, t. 16. f. 2. 

 Potto, Vosmaer, Descrip. AmMerd. 1771. t. 

 Poto, Btijfon, H. N., ed. AUam. Suppl. iv. p. 160, t. (Mi ; Cuvicr, 



Reyne Anim. i. p. 144. 

 Kinkajou, Bufon, 11. N. Suppl. iii. p. 24o, t. 50, 51. 

 Prehensile Weasel, Shaw, Zool. i. p. 403. 



The two species described by Mr. Martin only depended on the 

 artifice of the preserver. 



Skull — length '3^ inches; breadth 2 inches, of brain-case l-fLyinch; 

 length of palate 1 1 inch : breadth of nose |$ inch, of palate 8i lines; 

 length of tooth-line 1 inch, of lower jaw 2 inches. 



