358 Mr. H. I. Pocock 07i some of the 



in the majority of Paradoxurines^ but not in all, and the 

 vulval area is defined from the anal and glandular area by 

 a shallow marginal constriction of tbe naked integument. 

 Almost midway between the anus and the vulva there is a 

 pair of small pits or depressions in the skin, each of which 

 was plugged with a hardened piece of amber-like secietion. 

 These pits are shallow, and individually are smaller than the 

 orifice of the vulva Immediately behind them there is a 

 shallow transverse crease in the integument ; but the glan- 

 dular area, as a whole, is in no sense invaginated or provided 

 witli distinct upstanding labia. 



In the young female the snbcircular anal area is more 

 sharply defined from the vulval area, the marginal constric- 

 tion being deeper, and the glandular orifices are sunk in a 

 short transverse depression passing across the naked field 

 from angle to angle of the constriction. 



In the young male the penis is elongated and distally 

 pendulous, an unusual feature in the Paradoxurine group. 

 It is hairy at the sides, more sparsely hairy below, but naked 

 round the prepuce. Passing backwards from the base of the 

 penis between the two halves of the scrotum to the naked 

 circumanal area there is an elongated naked tract of skin 

 showing in the middle line traces of tliree shallow depres- 

 sions, which are probably incipient glandular pits. Tliis 

 division of the scrotum into two quite distinct, somewhat 

 widely separated testicular sacs is a very curious character. 

 That it persists in the adult, however, is quite clearly shown 

 on one of the skins in the British Museum, namely, the type 

 described by Gray, which, furthermore, appears to have been 

 provided with a naked glandular area like that of the young. 



Tlie anterior of the three median glandular pores above 

 desciibed is very small and close to the base of the penis. 

 The posterior, which is considerably larger, lies nearly 

 opposite the middle of the two halves of the scrotum. The 

 intermediate, a little more conspicuous than tlie posterior, 

 and, like it, surrounded by a low integumentai rim, is 

 situated about midway between the other two. 



This discovery of the scent-glands in Cynogale fully 

 explains the following passage in Sauyal's account of a living 

 specimen, and substantiates the truth of the claim made 

 therein : — " The presence of a strong civet-like smell near its 

 cage, especially at nigiit, unmistakably indicates the possession 

 of odoriteious' glands'^ (P. Z. S. 189i, p. 297). 



From the foregoing account it will be clear that the 

 glands of this animal are of a very simple type. They are 

 simpler, indeed, than the glands of any Paradoxurine known 



