234 THE GENETTS. 
Malacca, and is destitute of the scent-pouches which are so curious a characteristic of 
the preceding Viverrine animals. It is not at all a common animal, and its habits are 
not very clearly known. 
The general colour of the fur is a moderately deep grey, and upon the back are 
drawn four very large, saddle-shaped stripes of an exceedingly dark and rich brown, 
extremely broad on the spine, and becoming very narrow on the ribs. Along the sides 
run two rows or chains of similarly coloured markings, the upper band being occasionally 
merged in the broad stripes that cross the back. The lower band extends from the 
cheeks to the flanks. The legs are finely spotted, and the tail is covered with alternate 
rings of grey and dark brown, the rings becoming more distinct towards the point of the 
tail. 
The creature has been termed Pridnodon, or “Saw-tooth,” on account of the curiously 
shaped teeth, which present a jagged, or saw-like appearance. Its limbs are very slender 
and delicately formed. Although a scarce animal in every part of Java, it is especially 
so in any part of the island except the eastern end, where it is found among the thick 
forests with which that locality is densely clothed. : 
BLOTCHED GENETT.—Genetta Tigrina. 
GENETTS. 
A SMALL, but rather important, group of the Viverrine animals, is that the members 
of which are known by the name of the Grnerrs. These creatures are all nocturnal in 
their habits, as are the civets, and, like those animals, can live on a mixture of animal 
and vegetable food, or even on vegetable food alone. The Genetts possess the musk- 
secreting apparatus, which much resembles the pouch of the civet, although in size it is 
not so large, nor does it secrete so powerfully smelling a substance as that of the civets. 
The secreting organ, although it resembles a pouch, is not so in reality, being simply 
composed of two glands, united to each other by a strip of skin. 
The best known of these animals is the Common, or BLoTcHED GENETT, an inhabitant 
of Southem Africa and of various other parts of the world, being found even in the 
south of France. It is a very beautiful and graceful animal, and never fails to attract 
