MAMMALIA. 721 



Arctictis TEMM., let ides VALENC., Cuv. Canine teeth conical, 



6-6 . 3-3 . , 



compressed, acute ; molars ^ ^ , spurious . _ . , conical ; upper 



laniary tooth with crown broad, transverse, with external tubercle 

 conical, separated by a deep longitudinal groove from internal flat 

 tubercle ; lower laniary tooth with crown oblong, depressed in the 

 middle ; last upper tuberculate tooth very small, with crown orbi- 

 cular. Whiskers very long. Ears pencilled. Tail long, nearly 

 equal to body, villous, thick at the base, prehensile. (Dent. form. 



OWEN, i. |=, , ^ , p. *=*, , |Z|-40.) " 



Sp. Arctictis pen i cillata TEMM., Paradoxurus albifrons F. CUVIER, Mem,, du 

 Mus. ix. 1822, PL 44,Ictides albifrons VALENCIENNES, Ann. des Sc. nat. iv. 

 PI. i ; the benturong or binturong (musang or palm-civet) lives in Malacca, 

 Sumatra, Borneo and the western part of Java. The skull almost agrees 

 in form with that of Procyon; I found in the two skulls examined by me 

 only five molars on each side in the lower jaw. 



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Cercoleptes ILLIG., Potto Cuv. Molar teeth = ^ , small, the 



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two anterior on each side in both jaws conical, remaining three 

 tuberculate, with crown somewhat flat, the lower oblong, the upper 

 transverse, hollowed in the middle. Face short, rounded. Tongue 

 slender, exsertile. Tail elongate, voluble. (Dent. form. OWEN, 

 . 3_3 i_i 3_ 3 2-2 . 



Sp. Cercoleptes caudivolvulus ILLIG., Viverra caudivolvula PALL., VOSMAER 

 Beschrijving van eenAmerikaanscfiewezel, Potto genaamd. Amsterdam, 1 771, 

 4to (with col. fig.), SCHREB. Saugth. Tab. 1258, GUER. Iconogr., Mammif. 

 PL 13, fig. 2; the teeth figured in F. CUVIER Dents des Mammif. PL 12, 

 PP 3 r > 3 2 > yellowish-brown ; this animal feeds on fruits, honey, insects, 

 eggs, small birds, &c. ; it lives in Guiana, New Granada, also in Peru, 

 (V. TSCHUDI Fauna, pp. 105, 106) ; the IcinJcajou. The skull has some 

 resemblance with that of the apes. On the anatomy compare OWEN 

 Proceed, of the Zool. Soc. 1835, pp. 119 124. 



SECTION III. Insectivora. 



Incisor teeth various in number, which is almost always differ- 

 ent in the two jaws ; no true canines in many, false molars with 

 double root occupying their place ; molar teeth with conical, acu- 

 ; minate tubercles. Feet plantigrade, often pentadactylous. 



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