342 Mr. R. I. Pocock on the Genus Linsang. 



The ear of L. pardicolor was figured by Hodgson (Calc. 

 Journ. Nat. H ; st. viii. pi. i. 1847) ; but the illustration 

 suggests inaccuracy in several respects and cannot be relied 

 upon. 



The ear of L. linsang (PI. XII. fig. 6), which lias never 

 been described, is peculiar in one or two respects. The ante- 

 rior and posterior ridges arising from the interior orifice of the 

 meatus (o.), are developed as in Viverrine and Paradoxurine 

 genera. On the antero-external ridge (ae.), there is a distinct 

 but small lobate prominence above the tragus ; but the antero- 

 internal ridge, the post-tragus of Mivart (ai.), carries above a 

 large valvular flap, directed backwards and overlapping and 

 concealing the anterior end of the supratragus (s.). This 

 recalls the somewhat similar lobe I have described in Hemi- 

 galus *. On the outer side of the postero-external ridge (pe.), 

 there is a moderately strong crest (e.), forming a groove. This 

 crest is continuous in front with the ridge of the tragus ; 

 behind it meets another crest or low flap of skin (?•.), which 

 is placed above it, the two forming together the roof and 

 floor of the aforesaid groove. Nothing resembling the 

 superior ridge, which extends backwards beneath the bursa, 

 has been seen by me on the ear in any genus of Viverridaj, 

 but the lower ridge is comparable to that of Viverricula and 

 Hemigalus. The bursa (b.) is well developed. Its posterior 

 flap is semicircular and arises behind the rim of the pinna, as 

 in Paradoxurus, Genetta, &c. ; the anterior flap is very deeply 

 excavated and the rim of the ear below it is produced into a 

 prominent backwardly projecting lobe, similar to, but better 

 marked than, that of Paradoxurus hermaphroditus and Hemi- 

 galus derbyanus. 



The facial vibrissa; are normally Viverrine in the number 

 and distribution of their tufts, as Hodgson's figure of 

 L. pardicolor shows. 



TUefeet (PI. XII. figs. 3, 4), in the example of L. linsang, 

 are, broadly speaking, like those of Genetta, with certain excep- 

 tions pointed out by Mivart, namely, the absence of naked 

 metatarsal ridges of skin on the hind foot and the deep seg- 

 mentation of the plantar pads of both fore and hind limbs. 

 In the latter particular these pads differ from those of all the 

 genera of Viverrinae, where the three lobes are defined merely 

 by shallow grooves and thus constitute a continuous cushion, 

 such as is seen in the Felidse and Canidse. The digital pads 

 are small and surrounded by velvety hair, the claws are 

 completely retractile and probably guarded basally by skin- 

 lobes, although this feature could not be substantiated without 



* Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xvi., Sept. 1915, p. 155. 



