826 DR. J. E. GRAY ON EUPLERES GOUDOTI. [ Dec. 6, 
produced by a subanterior lobe on the inner side, and a more 
distinct lobe on the front edge, and a larger one on the hinder edge. 
The first tubercles triangular, nearly equilateral, with three blank 
tubercles on the outer side of the crown, and a larger tubercle on the 
anterior internal process. The second tubercular grinder smaller, 
triangular, rather wider than long, with concave arched sides. 
The three lower false grinders separated from each other by equal 
spaces like the upper ones; the first conical, compressed, some 
distance from and twice the size of the lower canine, which it 
resembles in shape; the second larger, compressed, with a very 
slight lobe on the front and a more distinct lobe on the hinder edge, 
and a high central cone; the third somewhat like the second but 
larger, with a more distinct anterior and a large posterior lobe. The 
lower carnivorous tooth oblong, with three anterior lobes placed in a 
triangle, and a large posterior one; the tubercular grinder similar 
to the preceding, but much larger and with larger anterior lobes, 
having a small lobe in the centre between the other three, and a 
very large hinder portion with a tubercle on the hinder margin. 
Head elongate ; nose very much produced, elongate, conical, acute, 
rounded beneath, with a very narrow central groove; whiskers 
slender, moderately long ; muzzle bald, cartilaginous; nostrils open 
on the side; lower jaw narrow in front ; ears rounded, hairy on the 
outside. Body elongate, rather slender, closely covered with hair ; 
legs moderate, of equal length. Soles of the feet with 6 pads, one 
central ; toes 5.5, buried in the skin to the claws; the front toes 4, 
with elongated arched compressed claws, the inner toe shorter ; 
claws of the hind feet short, of the inner toe abortive; the hinder 
side of the tarsus hairy; the tail rather shorter than the body, 
cylindrical, truncate, covered with abundance of hair, which is rather 
longer than that on the back. 
I believe the adult animal and its skull show that I placed the 
genus in its correct position in the ‘ Proceedings’ of the Society 
in 1864, and in the ‘Catalogue of Carnivorous Mammalia in the 
British Museum,’ when I arranged it near Crossarchus, in the family 
Rhinogalide. M. Doyére considered it an insectivorous animal, 
regarding the front double-rooted tooth in the lower jaw as a 
canine; but Blainville properly regarded it as more allied to the 
Viverride. And this decision is proved by the examination of 
Blainville’s figure of the young skull, tab. xii., and the examination of 
our older skull, both of which show that the small tooth in the upper 
jaw, which I have called the canine, is placed just behind the suture, 
between the maxillary and intermaxillary bones, which is the normal 
situation of the canine. 
It differs from the other genera of the family in the smallness of the 
head, the great slenderness of the nose, and in the small size of the 
canine teeth; and for this reason I think it ought to form a separate 
tribe of the family Rhinogalide, which would be called Euplerina. 
The head of the animal, and also the skull, becomes longer and 
more slender in comparison with its breadth as it arrives at the 
adult age ; and the great distance of the false grinders from each 
