570 DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE VIVERRIDE. [Nov. 8, 
complete behind. The zygomatic arch is.rather short and very much 
bowed out, the most convex part of the arch being rather behind the 
middle of its length. The contraction of the brain-case is rather be- 
hind the back of the orbit. The teeth are normal, nearly as massive 
as, and agreeing very generally in proportion of parts and position or 
form of the internal lobes with those of A. paludosus; but they are 
rather slender and longer comparatively in all their parts. The pa- 
late also is much narrower aud longer. The third upper false molar 
has a small central internal lobe. The front edge of the flesh-tooth 
is fully two-thirds the length of the outer edge; the hinder lobe of 
it is narrow, and angular behind. The front tubercular molar has a 
very oblique outer edge. ‘The brain-case is rather more than half the 
entire length. 
The length of the skull 33 inches; the width of the brain-case 
1,5; inch, of the zygomatic arch 27 inches. 
The lower jaw broad in front, narrow behind, without any tu- 
bercles on the lower edge under the end of the tooth-line. False 
grinders 4—4 ; the front very small, curved, close at the front of the 
second. The tubercular grinder very large, oblong, subcircular, with 
two large unequal tubercles on the front and a very large one on 
the hinder part of the crown. 
The lower jaw of Urva is distinguished from that of the genus 
Herpestes by having no prominence or tubercle on the lower edge 
under the hinder end of the tooth-line. 
29. ONYCHOGALE. 
Body slender. Tail conical, hairy, about as long as the body. 
Toes 5—5; inner toes small; front claws very long, compressed, 
curved. Teeth 40; false grinders 3/4, 3/4. 
The hinder end of the skull deeply and sharply notched, instead 
of being transversely truncated as in the small Herpestes. The 
notch in the living animal is filled up with a cartilaginous septum. 
ONYCHOGALE MACCARTHIZ. B.M. 
Red brown; hair elongate, flaccid, pale brown, with a broad, thick, 
subterminal band and a long whitish-brown tip; fur of hands and 
face shorter. Feet blackish brown; hair white-tipped. Tail redder ; 
hair elongate, red, one-coloured. Lars rounded, hairy. 
Herpestes maccarthie, Gray, B. M.; Gerrard, Cat. Osteol. B. M. 
fas 
Cynictis maccarthia, Gray, P.Z.S.1851, p.131, Mamm. pl.xxx1.; 
Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1853, xii. 47. 
Herpestes fulvescens, Kelaart, Ceylon. 
Hab. Ceylon (Lady Maccarthy). 
30. HELOGALE. 
Helogale, Gray, P. Z. 8.1861, p.308; Arch. fir Naturg. XXViil. 
(1862) p. 128. 
Body slender. Head oval. Ears distant. Toes 5—5; the inner 
