478 PROF. W. H. FLOWER ON THE | Nov. 11, 
The upper part of the head is dark grey. The dorsal surface of 
the fore feet is dark brown; the posterior, or palmar, surface pale 
yellowish brown. The anterior, or dorsal, surface of the hind feet 
is pale brown, mottled or irregularly banded with dark, and becoming 
quite dark at the toes. The hair on the posterior surface of the feet 
is pale, that on the edges of the webs of the toes very dark. 
Besides the general colour of the woolly hair mentioned above, 
there are certain conspicuous black bands or stripes, arranged as 
follows :—An oval longitudinal spot on the side of the neck ; three 
nearly vertical bands on the shoulder, of which the hinder one is 
much the longest; some irregular bands across the outer side of the 
forearm ; three vertical bands on the flank, of which the most poste- 
rior is the shortest ; a long band across the upper part of the thigh, 
inclining obliquely downwards and forwards, from the rump to the 
knee ; and some irregular bands on the outside of the thigh and leg. 
The general resemblance of the animal externally to a small 
Striped Hyzena has often been noticed, and is well exemplified in 
the living specimens in the Society’s Gardens. It should be re- 
marked that there is a considerable variation in the tone of the 
colour of the different individuals in the collection, the one which 
was first received being much lighter or greyer generally, and having 
the dark bands much less distinctly marked, than the specimen 
which is the subject of the present notice. 
BRAIN. 
The brain, generally speaking, is broad and rather depressed. Its 
form and proportions, and the disposition of its surface-markings, are 
shown in the accompanying figures (figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, pp. 480, 481). 
The olfactory lobes are large. The corpora albicantia were quite 
distinct from each other posteriorly, though blended in front. I 
observed nothing in the base of the brain or in the form of the cere- 
bellum or medulla oblongata notably different from those parts in 
other Carnivora. 
The most characteristic portion of the brain, the cerebral hemi- 
spheres, requires more attention. The length of each hemisphere 
before hardening in spirit was exactly 2"; the greatest breadth of 
the pair 1°8!, Seen from above they form a broad oval, rounded at 
each end, slightly broader behind than in front. They are rather 
flattened above. The convolutions are simple, and clearly marked 
by deep sulci, with very few secondary furrows. 
The Sylvian fissure (fig. 2, 8) on the outside of the hemisphere, 
rather in front of the middle, is well marked, and runs upwards and 
backwards for a distance of a little more than half an inch, its supe- 
rior extremity being slightly inclined forwards. As is usual among 
the Carnivora, the convolutions or gyri are arranged im a series of 
arches around and above this fissure. 
There are three such gyri. The first, or lowest (¢7), commences 
in the frontal lobe, above the supraorbital fissure (O), in common 
with the next; it ascends to the top of the Sylvian fissure, bends 
