436 CARNIVOEA 



Auditory bullae inflated along inner border, elsewhere rather flat, 

 their general form elongate flask-shaped (transverse diameter 

 greatest), much like that in ilfe/cs melen, the meatal tube rather 

 long but not sharply difTerentiated from main portion of bulla. 

 Postorbital region less abruptly contracted than in Melcs meles 

 and Martes martcs, its width slightly more than half that of 

 brain-case. Interorbital region about as wide as rostrum, 

 smoothly convex both longitudinally and laterally. Postorbital 

 proce-sses short but relatively better developed than in Maries. 

 Rostrum short and heavy, the width across canines equal to 

 distance from gnathion to infraorbital foramen. Oritice of 



I'lo. so. 



Gulo (juln. llcdiiced. 



anteorbital foramen relatively small, its actual size scarcely 

 greater than that in 3Iartcs martcs, its situation over posterior 

 root of iinfi and noticeably in front of anterior margin of rather 

 small orbit, a peculiarity not shared by any of the other European 

 members of the family. Zygomata essentially as in Martes 

 martes, but less bowed upward, and very noticeably compressed 

 and deepened, especially over glenoid region. Palate rather 

 broad, its width lietween molars equal to nearly 2^ times greatest 

 diameter of molar ; incisive foramina elliptical, slightly oblique, 

 between canines, the minute median foramen between anterior 

 borders ; posterior extension and mesopterygoid space essentially 



