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~  minusve callosd, inferné compresso-subcanaliculatd, margine rectd, 
viz denticulatd ; labro semi-elliptico, intus incrassato. 
Hab. Cayenne? . 
Alt. 20, lat. 23, conv. 15 mill. 
B. Ovate vel ovato-oblonge. 
4. Nerira zetanpica. er. testé ovato-oblongd, ventricosd, te- 
nuiusculd ; anfractibus 3-4 supremis sepiis derosis, infimo sub- 
suturd horizontaliterque compresso ; nigrd lineis ravidis longitudi- 
nalibus angulato-flecuosis creberrimis pictd, interdum lutescente 
superneé et inferné late fasciatd ; columelld subcompressd, croced, 
margine denticulatd et in medio vir arcuatd ; labro tenui, margine 
sordidé rubente, intus lacteo ac paritm incrassato. - 
Hab. New Zealand : on stones in mountain-streams. 
Alt. 19-20, lat. 18-19, conv. 12 mill. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
ON A NEW GENUS OF DOGS. BY J. E. GRAY, ESQ. 
Cyrnaticus, Gray. ‘ 
Curtine teeth > slightly and unequally 3-lobed, the outer on each 
side and in each jaw larger: canines conical, hooked. Grinders 
5° 
. the three false grinders oblique, diverging ; the flesh tooth thick, 
broad, with a very small lobe on the front of the inner edge ; the tu- 
bercular grinder rather large, oblong, transverse, 3-tubercled: the 
four lower false grinders in a regular series, the tubercular grinders 
small, roundish. 
The head large, the legs short, thick. Toes 5—4; claws com- 
pressed, curved, rather elongated, rather acute. Tail moderate, rather 
bushy, reaching to the heel. 
This genus agrees with Cuon in the shortness and broadness of 
the face and of the skull, and in the absence of the second hinder tu- 
bercular grinder in the lower jaws, but differs from it in this tooth 
being also absent in the upper one. In this latter character it agrees 
with Hyena, but is at once known from that genus by the larger 
size of the upper tubercular grinder and the number of the lower 
grinders. 
CyNALICUS MELANOGASTER. 
- Fulvous, face and back slightly blackish, varied ; chest, lower parts 
of sides, belly, limbs and tail black. 
_ Hab. Brazils. British Museum. 
Length of body and head 26 inches; of tail 5 inches; entire 31 
inches. 
I may here remark that Canis sumatrensis and Canis alpinus, the 
red wolves of Sumatra and Siberia, belong to the genus Cuon. Canis 
simensis, the long-nosed Abyssinian wolf, is a true dog, but the face 
of the skull is very narrow, and even more elongated than that of the 
