306 MR. GARROD ON THE ANATOMY OF HELICTIS. [Mar. 18, 



The following were the measurements, taken a few hours after 



death : — 



inches. 



Tip of nose to base of tail 1 4*^5 



Tail 6-9 



Ear 1-4 



Tip of nose to occipital ridge 3 - 8 



Sex, female. 



The two pairs of inguinal nipples are widely separate, forming the 

 four corners of a square. 



The clavicles are reduced, each *3 inch long, the scapular ex- 

 tremities remaining. 



The tongue is covered with small, similar, retroverted filiform 

 papillae, with a fair scattering of fungiformes. The papillae circum- 

 vallatae, two on the left, three on the right, and one in the angle, 

 form the usual V. 



The right lung has four lobes, one being the azygos. On the left 

 side there only two lobes. 



The stomach is exactly like that of Arctictis binturong (as figured 

 by me *) and nearly all Carnivora when contracted. The small 

 intestine is seven feet in length, the large intestine six inches and 

 three quarters. There is no caseum ; but an abrupt change in the 

 nature of the mucous membrane from thin and villous to thick and 

 smooth indicates the junction of the tubes. 



The liver conforms completely to the carnivorous type, the right 

 central lobe being largest, with a deep cystic fissure, and a gall-bladder 

 so deeply imbedded that its fundus is seen on the diaphragmatic 

 surface of the organs. The left lateral lobe comes next in size, the 

 right central, and then the caudate following, after which the left 

 central lobe, and the small Spigelian last. 



The pancreas is seven inches in length, its left terminal two inches 

 being in relation with the narrow spleen (two and three quarters 

 inches in length). 



There is a pair of pea-sized anal glands, opening into the rectum 

 near the sphincter, in a linear transverse orifice on either side. 



The uterus is strongly bicorn ; the vulva much enlarged, with 

 a well developed gland on each side of the orifice of the meatus 

 urinarius. 



The brain conforms to the Musteline Carnivorous type, not to 

 that of most of the Arctoidea. In Prof. Flower's excellently 

 concise definitions of the three different arrangements of the cerebral 

 convolutions in the Carnivora 2 , he tells us that "in the Arctoidea 

 the fissure of Sylvius is rather long, and slopes backwards ; the 

 inferior gyrus has the limbs long, corresponding with the length of 

 the Sylvian fissure, the anterior rather narrower than the posterior 

 (especially in the true Bears) ; the middle gyrus is moderate and 

 equal-limbed, the upper one large, very broad in front, and distinctly 

 marked off from the second posteriorly as far as near the lower 



1 P. Z. S. 1873, p. 198. 2 P. Z. S. 1869, p. 482. 



