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considerably thicker than the internal ; its anterior end is 

 connected with the posterior end of the external lateral lobe 

 of the plantar pad by a narrow pad-like ridge of integument, 

 stretching obliquely forwards and outwards to reach the 

 plantar pad. The carpal aud plantar pads in their entirety 

 resemble tolerably closely those of Genetta, the carpal pads 

 taken together being narrower than the plantar pads. The 

 chief differences are these : — The carpal pads both indi- 

 vidually and collectively are longer than in that genus, the 

 pollical lobe is a little larger and, in conformity with the 

 longer pollex, is separated by a wider space, covered with 

 hair from the digital lobe of the pollex, and, lastly, the space 

 circumscribed by the plantar and carpal pads, instead of 

 being covered with hair as in Genetta and all Viverrines, is 

 naked as in all Paradoxurines. 



The hind foot (PL VIII. fig. 7) agrees in the main with the 

 fore foot. The three main lobes of the plantar pad are simi- 

 larly well defined, the hallucal lobe is large and somewhat 

 widely separated by a hairless space from the digital pad of the 

 hallux. From its posterior end there extends backwards (or 

 upwards) and inwards an elongated pad, which is, however, as 

 broad distally as the area of the hallucal lobe it abuts against, 

 but it narrows proximally and ceases near the middle of the 

 underside of the metatarsus a considerable distance below 

 the heel. A corresponding partially divided external meta- 

 tarsal pad, or thickened ridge of integument, runs backwards 

 from the posterior end of the external lateral lobe of the 

 plantar pad, narrowing as it goes, to meet the internal meta- 

 tarsal pad below its superior apex ; and, as in the fore foot, 

 the relatively depressed space between the carpal and plantar 

 pads is naked. Above the apex of the metatarsal pads there 

 is a long area of the metatarsus completely covered with 

 hair. In connection with the digital pads, a small difference 

 between the fore and hind feet may be noted ; those of the 

 third and fourth digits in the bind foot are a little closer 

 together than in the fore foot. They are not united at the 

 base ; but in their juxtaposition these pads show a condition 

 intermediate between that seen in the Viverrines and in the 

 typical Paradoxurines. 



Mivart's figures of the pads of the specimen he examined, 

 probably a fresh example, agree in the main, so far as the 

 features above described are illustrated, with those observed 

 in the specimen in the British Museum, but in the latter the 

 carpal and metatarsal pads are a little narrower, perhaps 

 owing to shrinkage in alcohol. 



From the description here given of the feet of Hemigalus 



