1864. ] DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE VIVERRID&. oll 
having two tubercles on the inner lobe of the flesh-tooth, while this 
tooth in all the other genera has only a single lobe on the crown 
of that process of the tooth. 
1. PrRoTeuys. 
Head short, broad; muzzle truncated; ears long and pointed. 
The body short ; neck and back crested ; legs elongate, front longest ; 
tail short, bushy. Toes 5—4. Teeth 32; false grinders — ; tuber- 
cular grinders 2/1. Looks like a small Hyzena, with the teeth of a 
Civet. 
Proteles, 1. Geoff. Mém. Mus. ii. 370, 1824; Ann. Sci. Nat. viii. 
252; A. Smith, S. Afr. Q. Journ. i. 48. 
PROTELES CRISTATUS. B.M. 
Proteles cristatus, Gray, Cat. Mam. B. M. 47; Gerrard, Cat. 
Ost. B. M. 70. 
P. lalandii, I. Geoff. Mém. Mus. xi. 370, t. 20; Mag. Zool. 
1841, i. t. 30; Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 195; Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. 
424. 
Viverra cristata (Grey Jackal), Sparrm. Voy. ii. 177. 
P. typicus, A. Smith, S. A. Q. J. i. 48. 
Viverra ? hyenoides, Cuvier, MS.; Desm. Mamm. 538. 
P. hyenoides, Blainv. 
Genette hyenoide, Cuv. Oss. Foss. iv. 388. 
Proteus, Edinb. Phil. Journ. ii. 103. 
Hyena Genet, Griffith, A. K. t. 
Hab. S. Africa: Cape (called “ Nadron”); Natal (4. Smith), 
(“ Aard Wolf’’). 
“Female lighter; under fur less abundant.”—A. Smith. 
2. VIVERRA. 
Viverra, Linn.; Gray, P. Z.S. 1832, p. 63. 
Head long; muzzle acute; pupil oblong, vertical. Neck with 
large black and white marblings. Body short, compressed ; back 
black-crested ; legs moderate, equal ; tail moderate, tapering, ringed. 
Toes 5—5; claws semiretractile. Teeth 40; false grinders =. 
Hab. Africa and Asia. 
* Tail black. African. 
1, VIVERRA CIVETTA. B.M. 
Tail black ; sides spotted. 
Viverra civetta, Schreb. Séugeth. t.111; A. Smith, S. A. Q. J. 
i. 44; Bennett, Tower Menag. 99, fig. ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 47; 
Gerrard, Cat. Ost. B. M. 70; Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. 361; Temm. 
Esq. Zool. 88. 
Civette, Buffon, ix. 299, t. 34. 
