244, Zoological Society :— 
Body slender; head oval; ears distant; toes 5—6 ; claws com- 
pressed, acute ; soles of hind feet half bald and callous 3 tail hairy, 
tapering. 
1. HeLocaLe parvuLa (Herpestes parvulus, Sundeval). 
Skull broad. 
Hab. Natal. He. 
Skull of Helogale parvula (upper surface.) 
2. HeLocate Ttanionota (Herpestes tenionotus, A. Smith). 
Skull elongate. 
Hab. South Africa. . 
The'skull differs considerably in shape from that of the species of 
true Herpestes. ; 
ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE Genus Cuscus. 
By Dr. Joun Epwarp Gray, F.R.S., V.P.Z.S., erc. 
In the ‘ Proceedings’ for 1858, p. 100, I gave some observations 
on the genus Cuscus, with the description of a new species; and 
in the volume for 1860, p. 1, I described another species of the 
genus *. Bei: 
Since that time we have received several additional specimens 
from Mr. Wallace, and I have also been able to examine many 
other examples sent home by the same excellent collector ; the exa- 
mination of these specimens has induced me rather to modify my 
views as regards the species, and has led me to observe other cha- 
racters for the species which were before unknown to me. 
I therefore lay before the Society these additional observations, in 
the hope of domg something towards settling the species of this 
very difficult group of animals, which are curious as being the only 
* See Annals, vol. ii. p. 67, and vol. vi. p. 65. 
