144 DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE MUSTELID&. [Jan. 24, 
as long. Four middle cutting-teeth equal, truncated, the side ones 
conical, with a recurved tip; canines conical, nearly straight ; false 
grinders two, crowded, thick, conical : flesh-tooth trigonal; outer 
edge rather the longest, with two conical confluent tubercles; the 
inner lobe anterior, roundish, with an acute conical tubercle: tuber- 
cular grinder transverse, band-like; outer half narrow, inner half 
considerably wider, rounded on the inner edge. Lower jaw strong; 
chin arched; cutting-teeth crowned, truncated, the middle one on 
each side behind the others; canines conical, curved back ; false 
grinders three, rather crowded, thick, conical; the flesh-tooth ob- 
long, of moderate size, with three conical tubercles in a single longi- 
tudinal series ; tubercular grinder none (or small or early deciduous). 
rhage 
Length iomshelle e070 cn «ys lnet rae wee ae ee ee 
—— palatenins.nivdi it eles cota 2 4 
— LOWER YAW lousy a areas sehen poo 4 
— OFbIbIOVEL ORES: ch os [oe cieels 2 3 
nose in front of orbits ...... Date 
The skull is very like Guo in general form ; but the upper flesh- 
tooth is triangular, and the larger internal lobe in Gulo is oblong, 
longitudinal, with a small internal lobe near the front end. 
2. MELLIVORA RATEL. Ratel. B.M. 
Skull higher. . 
Gulo capensis, Desm. Mamm. 176. 
Ursus mellivorus, Cuv. Tab. Elém. 112, 1798. 
Viverra capensis, Schreb. Saugeth. 450, t. 135. 
V.ratel, Sparrm. Act. Stockh. 1777, t.4. f.2; Owen, Odont. 
t. 128. f. 10. 
Mellivora capensis, F. Cuv.; Less. Man. 143, 2nd edit. i.; Blainv. 
Ostéogr. Mustela, t. 6 (skull), t. 2 (skeleton). 
M. ratel, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. 68. 
Viverra mellivora, Blumenb. Naturg. 97. 
Ursus mellivorus, Blumenb. Naturg. edit. 10, p. 99. 
Taxus mellivorus, Tiedem. Zool. i. 377. 
Lipotus mellivorus, Sundevall, Kong.Vet. Acad. Handl.1841, p.211. 
Mellivora capensis, Peters, Mossamb. 
Ratelus capensis, Schinz, Syn. Mamm. 329. 
Meles mellivora, Thunb. in Mém. Pétersb. iii. 107. 
Ratelus typicus, A. Smith, S. Afr. Quart. Journ, ii. 35. 
Mustela capensis, Blainv. Ostéogr. Mustela, t. 13. f. (teeth). 
Stinkbinksen, Kolbe. 
Blaireau puant, La Caille, Voy. 182. 
Fizzler Weasel, Penn. Syn. 224. 
Honey-Weasel, Shaw, Zool. i. 395. 
Ratel, Sparrm. Kong. Vet. Acad. Handl. 1777, p.49, t.4.f.3; Cuv. 
Régne Anim. i. 146. 
Hab. South Africa (Sparrman); East Africa, Sennaar (Sunde- 
vall); Tette (called “Seve,” Peters). 
