Mr. R. I. Pocock on the Genus Euplei'es, cfcc. 349 



pa;ls is quite naked. The plantar pads are large and normally- 

 trilobate, and the internal lateral lobe has a moderately large 

 poUical ipl.) or lialliical lobe (h/.) attached to its posterior 

 angle. Tliere is no metatarsal pad, but a strip o£ naked skin 

 runs obliquely inwards and upwards to the middle line from 

 the angle of the external lateral lobe of the plantar pad. Tlie 

 carpal pad (c.) is double and closer than usual to tiie ))lantar 

 pad, its subspherical external or ulnar moiety being larger 

 thati the internal ; between the former and the external 

 lateral lobe of the plantar pad there is a small area of naked 

 skin. 



In the characters so far enumerated there is nothing to 

 distinguish the feet of Eupleres, otherwise than generically, 

 from those of the genera previously discussed in tliis paper, 

 or, indeed, from those described in my paper upon the 

 Viverrin^ (P. Z. S. 1915, pp. 131-119) ; but in one character 

 they are peculiar, namely, the comparatively large size and 

 low position of the hallux and pollex — a primitive feature, 

 suggesting that, although truly digitigrade, Eupleres, when 

 standing, has the five digital pads instead of four in contact 

 with the ground. 



Conclusion. 



Assuming provisionally the absence of perineal scent- 

 glands in Poiana, the four genera discussed in this paper 

 differ by that negative character from those I have recently 

 dealt with elsewhere, which may be referred to the four 

 subfamilies of Viverridse, namely, the Viverrinse ( Viverricula^ 

 Viverra, Civettictis, Genetta), the Hemigalinse (Heinigalas, 

 Ghrotogale, Diphgale), the (Jynogalinoe [Gynogale), and the 

 Paradoxuriiise [Paradoxurus, Paguma, Macrogalidia *, Arc- 

 tictis, Arctogalidia, JSandinia). 1 do not think it is placing 

 a too high value upon the characters distinguishing these 

 groups to assign them the rank of subfamilies. The Para-. 

 doxurinjB, indeed, may be susceptible of finer subdivision, 

 Nandinia especially having strong claims to be regarded as 

 the representative of a special group of that standing. How- 

 ever that may be, the fourteen genera so classified agree, so 

 far as is known t, with each other in possessing the scent- 

 gland in diverse forms and positions in both sexes \ ; and 

 this is a very special organ probably inherited from a common 



* Proposed by Schwarz (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) v. p. 423, 1910) 

 for Paguina mussenhroeki from Celebes. 



t Not verified in Chrotogale and DIplogale. 

 X Not verified in the male oi' ArctogciUdia, 



