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with a very small head and extremely slender and long nose and a 
long cylindrical and bushy tail, from Madagascar, under the name of 
Falanaka, which I was inclined to think might be the adult state of 
the Lupleres goudotii of M. Doyére. But it has no appearance of 
the black bands across the shoulders which he describes and figures, 
and therefore I doubted the identity. But the examination of the 
skull has entirely set all doubts at rest, for it is certainly the adult 
state of the skull figured by M. Doyére with its milk-teeth; and 
therefore I suspect that the existence of the black bands mentioned 
in his description and shown in the figure may be caused by the 
manner in which the hairs clustered together when the animal was 
taken out of spirit and put in position, as they sometimes will do ; 
or it may be that the young animal may be so marked; but I do 
not think that this is likely. 
As the genus has only been described from a young specimen, I 
send a description of the adult skull and teeth. 
Euperes, Doyére. 
Skull very elongate, narrow, nearly three times as long as broad ; 
the brain-case ovate; zygomatic arch long and very slender ; orbit 
large, oblong, very imperfect behind, quite open to the temporal 
cavity, without any processes either above or below; nose very 
slender, as long as the breadth of the broadest part of the brain- 
cavity ; nasal bones very slender, elongate ; maxillary bones high ; 
interorbital foramen large, inferior; the nose divided in the middle 
about one third of its length; palate narrow, rather wider behind, 
rather concave in the middle of its length, truncated behind, the 
opening of the internal nostril, some distance behind the last 
grinder, elongated, with nearly parallel sides. 
Lower jaw very slender, light, with a long produced subcylindri- 
cal angle behind, narrow and rather flattened in front, with a rather 
elongated symphysis. Cutting-teeth $; the upper small, truncated, 
forming a close arched series, the outer on each side being rather 
the largest; the lower smaller, forming a much smaller arched 
series, the outer on each side being the largest. 
Canines }.1; the upper small, conical, and much compressed and 
recurved, not quite so large as the first false grinder, and placed at a 
small distance from the outer cutting-tooth ; the lower very small, 
close to and of the same form and size as the outer cutting-tooth. 
Grinders &.¢; the upper false grinders three on each side, com- 
pressed and very far apart; the first very like and a very slight 
distance from the canine, and, like it, recurved ; the second separated 
by an equally broad space from the first ; and the third is compressed, 
with a recurved tip and an acute compressed lobe on the hinder 
edge ; the third close to the flesh-tooth, forming with the other three 
hinder grinders a connected series like the preceding, but wider, 
with a very obscure process on the front edge, a broad compressed 
one on the hind edge, and a central conical recurved process. ‘The 
flesh-tooth like the preceding, but with a subtriangular crown 
