706 DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE URSIDE. [ Dec. 13, 
Skull with one very large suborbital foramen. The palate con- 
cave. The grinders are longer, and occupy a longer line than they 
do in P. lotor and its varieties. 
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Section II. DENpROpPopa, 
or Cat-footed Bears. The feet moderate ; toes short, webbed, covered 
with hair, arched ; last joint bent up ; claws compressed, short, 
acute, retractile. Head rounder. 
Dendropoda, Gray, P. Z.S. 1864, p. 506. 
These animals climb trees, and defend themselves with all their 
four feet, lying on their backs. 
Tribe 4. CERCOLEPTINA. 
Tail elongate, subcylindrical, covered with shortish hairs, pre- 
hensile. Soles of the feet bald. 
Cercoleptina, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 
8. CERCOLEPTES. 
Cercoleptes, Illiger. 
Kinkajou, Lacépéde. 
Potos, Cuvier. 
Caudivolvulus, Desm. 
Head rounded. Nose short, acuminated. Ears oblong. Toes 
5/5; soles naked. Claws short, sharp. ‘Tail elongate, hairy, pre- 
hensile. Teats two, ventral. 
Skull ovate. Nose short, shelving. Forehead arched. Teeth:— 
cutting 6/6, regular, lower rather shelving out; canines grooved ; 
grinders 5/5, 5/3, two front conical, third like flesh-tooth ; tubercular 
ovate, flat. The lower jaw thick, with a well-developed inferior angle. 
Brain ovate; case ventricose. Orbit incomplete ; suborbital fora- 
men large, single. Chin long, well marked. 
Professor Owen has published some notes on the anatomy (see 
P. Z. 8. 1835, p. 119). 
CERCOLEPTES CAUDIVOLVULUS. B.M. 
Fulvous. 
Viverra caudivolvulus, Pallas, in Schreb. Séugeth. 453, t. 125 B. 
Ursus caudivolvulus, Cuv. Tab. Elém. 113, 1798. 
Potos caudivolvulus, Geoff. Mus. Paris; Desm. Mamm. 171. 
Caudivoloulus flavus, Tiedem. Zool. i. 381. 
