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ON THE ANATOMY OF HELICTIS. 475 
molar and molar teeth are heavier than in H. moschata and H. sub- 
aurantiaca, lighter than in H. nipalensis and H. orientalis, with the 
two former of which species it most agrees in the size of the zygomatic 
foramen, with the two latter in its situation. 
The following were the measurements taken a few hours after Page 306. 
death :— 
inches 
Tip of nose to base of tail....-........... 14°25 
Waa as Dad Sec ey es yeaa Shee 285k'>.6;5 dw 69 
Wi fd so dd Bo awed cewek edd. taide-ce < 1-4 
Tip of nose to occipital ridge ........-..-- 38 
Sex, female. 
The two pairs of inguinal nipples are widely separate, forming the 
four corners of a square. 
The clavicles are reduced, each ‘3 inch long, the scapular extremi- 
ties remaining. 
The tongue is covered with small, similar, retroverted filiform 
papille, with a fair scattering of fungiformes. The papille circum- 
vallatez, two on the left, three on the right, and one in the angle, form 
: the usual V. 
The right lung has four lobes, one being the azygos. On the left 
side there only two lobes. 
The stomach is exactly like that of Arctictis binturong (as figured 
by me*) and nearly all Carnivora when contracted. The small intes- 
tine is seven feet in length, the large intestine six inches and three 
quarters. There is no cecum; but an abrupt change in the nature of 
the mucous membrane from thin and villous to thick and smooth in- 
dicates the junction of the tubes. 
The liver conforms completely to the carnivorous type, the right 
central lobe being largest, with a deep cystic fissure, and a gall-bladder 
so deeply imbedded that its fundus is seen on the diaphragmatic sur- 
face of the organs. The left lateral lobe comes next in size, the right 
central, and then the caudate following, after which the left central 
lobe, and the small Spigelian last. 
The pancreas is seven inches in length, its left terminal two inches 
being in relation with the narrow spleen (two and three quarters 
inches in length). 
There is a pair of pea-sized anal glands, opening into the rectum 
near the sphincter, in a linear transverse orifice on either side. 
The uterus is strongly bicorn; the vulva much enlarged, with 
a well developed gland on each side of the orifice of the meatus 
* ~ Proceedings of the Zoological Society,” 1873, p. 198. (Supra, p. 154.) 
