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b. Body slender, elongate; tubercular grinders one on each side 
above and below (1-1).—Gray. 
PRIONODONTINAE. (B.) 
2. Subplantigrade: the under-side of the toes and more or less of the 
back of the tarsus naked, callous. Flesh-tooth strong; upper tuber- 
cular grinders large, broad. 
a. Tail moderate, not prehensile. The hinder part of the tarsus 
hairy to the palm; the tail bushy. 
GALIDIINAE. (C.) 
b. Tail moderate, not prehensile. The upper part of the hinder part 
of the tarsus hairy to the palm; tail ringed. (Gray.) Sectorial 
tooth with large tubercular ledge. 
HEMIGALIINAE. (D.) 
ce. Tail very long, sub-convolute. The hinder part of the tarsus bald, 
eallous. (Gray.) Sectorial tooth typical. 
PARADOXURINAE. (&.) 
d. Tail thick, strong, prehensile. The hinder part of the tarsus 
bald, callous. Sectorial tooth of upper jaw transverse, sub-tuber- 
eular. 
ARCTICTIDINAE. (@.) 
B. Nose rather produced, rounded, hairy, and without any central groove 
below (Gray, s. Cynogalide). Sectorial tooth with an extensive tuber- 
cular ledge, 
CYNOGALINAE. (G.) 
II. . Auditory bulla very prominent and somewhat pyriform, divided by a 
transverse constriction into two portions; the anterior nearly as large and 
inflated as the posterior. (Flower.) Toes straight; the last phalanx and 
claws extended. The claws blunt and worn at the end, the front ones 
often elongated. (Gray, s. Cynopoda.) 
A. Nose flat and bald, beneath with a central groove. (Gray, s. Herpes- 
tide.) 
1. Head elongate, conical; tail conical or cylindrical. (Gray.) 
HERPESTINAE. (H.) 
2. Head short, ventricose; tail bushy, expanded laterally; claws 
elongate. (Gray.) 
CYNICTIDINAE, (1.) 
B. Nose broad, convex, and hairy, beneath without any central groove. 
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(Gray, s. Lihinogalidae.) 
t 1. Head elongate, nose short. Teeth 40. False grinders #. (Gray.) 
RHINOGALINAE, (J.) 
2. Head ventricose. Nose elongate. Teeth 36. False grinders }. 
(Gray.) 
: CROSSARCHINAE. (K.) 
