1864.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE URSID&. 707 
Cercoleptes megalotus, Martin, P. Z. 8. 1836, p. 83; Schinz, S. M. 
311. 
C. brachyotus, Martin, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 83; Schinz, 8. M. 311. 
C. caudivolvulus, Iliger, Prod. 127; Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 150 ; 
Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 75; P.Z.S. 1848, p. 76. 
Lemur flavus, Schreb. Saéugeth. 145, t. 42 (fig. Penn.) ; De Blainv. 
Ostéogr. Subursi, t. 5 (skeleton), t. 7 (skull). 
? Lemur bicolor, Penn.; Miller, Cim. Phys. t. (badly coloured). 
Yellow Maucacoco, Penn. Syn. 138, t. 16. f. 2. 
Potto, Vosmaer, Descrip. Amsterd. 1771, t. 
Poto, Buffon, H. N., ed. Allam, Suppl. iv. 160, t. 66; Cuvier, 
Régne Anim. i. 144. 
Kinkajou, Buffon, H. N. Suppl. iii. 245, t. 50, 51. 
Prehensile Weesel, Shaw, Zool. i. 403. 
The two species described by Mr. Martin only depended on the 
artifice of the preserver. 
Skull, length 3,4, inch; breadth 2 inches, of brain-base 1,4 inch; 
length of palate 13 inch; breadth of nose 19 inch, of palate 84 
lines ;. length of tooth-line 1 inch, of lower jaw 2 inches. 
Tribe 5. Ar~uRINA. 
Tail not longer than the body, subcylindrical, covered with long 
bushy hairs, not prehensile ; soles of the feet covered with hair. 
Ailurina, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 
9. ATLURUS. 
Ailurus, F. Cuvier, Mamm. Lithogr.; Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. 
‘Soc. Bengal. 
Head roundish, very hairy; nose acute, short; ears short, rounded, 
hairy ; feet short ; toes 5/5 ; claws acute ; tail elongate, tufted. 
Skull ovate ; nose short ; zygoma much spread out. Teeth 36; 
grinders squarish, many-tubercled. Lower jaw arched, rounded, 
very large. 
Lives on trees, but breeds in holes of rocks, living in pairs or small 
families ; feeds on fruit, roots, eggs, young birds and animals. Claws 
completely retractile, half sheathed. 
“I can only report the frugivorous habits, gentle disposition, ur- 
sine arm, feline paw, profoundly cross-hinged yet grinding jaw, and 
purely triturative and almost ruminant molar of dilurus; anus, peri- 
neum, and prepuce entirely free from glands or pores ; scrotum none; 
tongue smooth ; pupil round; feet enveloped in woolly socks, with 
leporine completeness.’’ —Hodgson. 
AILURUS FULGENS. B.M. 
dilurus fulgens, F. Cuv. Mamm. Lithogr. t.; Hardw. Linn. 
Trans. xv. 161; Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 157; Gray, Cat. Mamm. 
B. M. 74; De Blainy. Ostéogr. Subursus, t. 7 (skull imperfect). 
