1864.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE VIVERRIDA. 523 
short ; forehead arched ; crown flat. Teeth 36 or 38; false grind- 
ers 3/3, 3/3, front very small; flesh-tooth triangular, elongate, 
longer than broad, and falls early ; tubercular grinders 2/1, trans- 
verse, the second very small (see skull, @. elegans, Geoff. l. c. t. 17). 
We only possess Galidia elegans ; aud the feet of that species have 
no relation to those of an Herpestes, to which M. I. Geoffroy com- 
pares them ; they are much more those of a Genet, having short, 
arched, webbed toes and very acute retractile claws. 
* Tail ringed ; ‘soles of hind feet narrow.’ Galidia. 
1. GALIDIA ELEGANS. B.M. 
Dark chestnut-brown; tail nearly as long as the body, black- 
ringed. Length 15 inches ; tail 12 inches. 
Galidia elegans, I. Geoff. Mag. de Zool. 1839, p. 27, t. 14 & 17; 
Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. 378; Gerrard, Cat. Ost. B. M. 76. 
Margusta (Galidia) elegans, Blainv. Ost. t. 9. 
Genetta’?, A. Smith, 8. Afr. Quart. Journ. 52 (see I. Geoff.). 
Vounsira, Flacourt, Histoire de Madagascar, p. 154, 1661. 
Vausire, Buffon & Daubenton ? 
Hab. Madagascar (called Vounsira). 
Skull oblong, rather elongate ; forehead shelving, rather convex ; 
the crown flat ; the brain-case nearly two-thirds the entire length. 
False grinders 3/3, the first very small, deciduous, the second and 
third compressed ; the flesh-tooth trigonal, considerably longer than 
broad at the front edge—the internal tubercle large, and a little be- 
hind the front margin. Tubercular grinders—the first subtruncate, 
oblong, rather wider than long, contracted in the inner side; the 
second very small, transverse, oblong (see I. Geoff. /. c. t. 17). 
In the figure cited the brain-cavity is nearly three-fifths the entire 
length of the skull (that is, measured to the back of the orbits) ; and 
the zygomatic arch is rather wider than half the length of the skull. 
** Tail one colour ; “soles of hind feet more bald.”  Salanoia. 
2. GALIDIA CONCOLOR. 
Red brown, black-dotted ; tail like back, much shorter than the 
body ; ears broad and short. Length 13 inches ; tail 7 inches. 
Galidia concolor, I. Geoff. Mag. Zool. 1839, p. 30, t.15; Coquerel, 
Mag. de Zool. xi. 465; Schinz, Syn. Mamm. 1. 377. 
G. unicolor, I. Geoff. Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. 1837, v. 581. 
Hab. Madagascar. 
3. GALIDIA OLIVACEA. 
Olive-brown, yellow-dotted ; tail same colour as the body ; false 
grinders 3/2; tubercular grinders broader than in G. elegans, espe- 
cially the hinder ones. 
