498 DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE CANID.E. [Juiie 25, 



Icticyon, Lund, 1842 ; Burmeister, Fanna Bras. ii. 1. 

 Cynalicus, Gray, Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1846, p. 29.3. 

 Melictes, Schinz, 1849. 



1. Icticyon venaticus. B.M. 



Icticyon venaticus, Lund, Fauna Bras. 184; Warner, Wiegm. 

 Arch. 1843, p. 3.55; Burmeister, Fauna Bras. i. t. lS-20; Gerrard, 

 Cat. of Bones of Mamni. 89 ; Van der Hoeven, Kais. Ak. d. Wiss. u. 

 Naturg. vii. (tubercular grinders j^^, trigonal). 



Cynalicus melanoy aster. Gray, Ann. & Mag. N. H. 184G, xvii. 

 293; Wiegm. Arch. 1847, p. 15. (B.M.) 



Cynogale venatica, Lund, K. D. V. Selsk. 1842. 



Melictis beskii, Schinz, Wiegm. Arch. 1849, p. 10. 



Canis hruchyotus, Blainv. Osteogr. t. 9 (skull), t. 12 (teeth). 



Hab. Brazil. 



** Teeth AQ ; tubercular grinders ^z:^. Temporal muscles sepa- 

 rated by a narrow cranial ridge. 



3. CuoN. 



Skull short ; nasals elongate. Teeth 40 ; tubercular grinders -^^' 

 the lower hinder tubercular grinder deftcient. — Blainv. Ann. Fran(f 

 et Etrnny. d'Anat. i. t. 8. f. 4. 



The small hinder tubercular grinders of the u[)per and lower jaw 

 <leficient. (See Blainv. Osteogr. t. 9?) 



1. CuoN PRiMiEvu.s. Buansuah. B.M. 



.Skull — nose short, broad, swollen ; forehead broad, convex, gra- 

 dually shelving from the nose line ; nasals produced behind the 

 hinder upper edge of the maxillaries. 



Canis primcEvus, Hodgson, P. Z. S. 1833, j). 1 1 1 ; Blainv. Osteogr. 

 Canis, 49, t. 8 (skull), t. 9 (teeth) ; Laur. &, Bazin, Ann. d'Anat. 

 et Phys. i. t. 8. f. 4 (skull) ; Hodgson, Trans. Asiat. Soc. , t. ; 



Gray, Cat. Mamin. B. M. 57. 



Cuon primcevus, Gerrard, Cat. of Bones of Mamm. B. M. 81. 



Canis himaluyanus. Lesson. 



Hub. Nepal {Hodgson, B. M.) ; Cashmere {Abbott). 



2. Cuon alpinus. B.M. 



Canis alpinus, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i. 34 ; Van der Hoeven, 

 Kais. Akad. d. Wiss. vii. t. 17 (teeth) ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 

 .57 ; Schrenck, Amurlande, 48. 



Cuon alpinus. Gray ; Gerrard, Cat. of Bones of Mamtn. B. M. 81. 



Hab. Siberia, Altai Mountains {Brandt) (skull, B. M.). 



Skull very like that of the preceding species, if different. 



3. Cuon sumatrensis. (Fig. 2, p. 499.) B.M. 

 Skull — nose short, broad, swollen, slightly raised above the nose- 



