148 PROF, ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ^LUROIDEA. [Feb. 7, 



(17) There is a—. 



(18) There are prescrotal scent-glands. 

 The genus agrees with the Felidce in that 



(19) There is a short poUex. 



(20) The ungual phalanges are arched to a certain considerable 



extent. 



(21) The claws are arched, sharp-pointed, and somewhat retractile. 



(22) The bony auditory meatus is not produced anteriorly or in- 



feriorly, neither is it imperfectly ossified below. 



(23) The humerus has a supracondyloid foramen. 



(24) The tarsus and metatarsus are entirely hairy. 



(25) There is one plantar pad and another beneath each digit. 



(26) The anus does not open into a saccular depression. 



(27) There are two anal glands only. 



(28) There is a small ccecum. 



As further characters may be noted that 



(29) Rather the posterior than the anterior margin of the external 



auditory meatus projects the more. 



(30) The orbits are not enclosed by bone. 



(31) There is no conspicuous foramen on the basis cranii by which 



the carotid perforating or notching the sphenoid shall re-enter 

 the cranium. 



(32) The hinder chamber of the bulla is not everted so as to be 



external as well as posterior to its anterior chamber. 



(33) The palate is not much produced beyond the hinder molars. 



(34) The mandibular angle is not everted. 

 (3.5) The mastoid is not prominent. 



(36) The paroccipital process depends below the bulla, to which it 



is applied. 



(37) The opening of the auditory meatus is rather large and not 



triangular. 



(38) The bulla is narrower in front than behind. 



(39) It is not much laterally compressed. 



(40) The skull is not greatly constricted behind the postorbital 



processes of the frontal. 



(41) The pollex and hallux reach to the end of the adjacent mid- 

 hand bones. 



(42) The scent-glands open into a deep prescrotal pouch or sac. 



(43) The median part of the back is marked with black. 



(44) The nose exhibits a median antero-posterior groove on its 



under surface and on the upper lip. 



(45) There is an -^^. 



(46) ^j-^ is not minute. 



(47) The dentition is markedly sectorial. 



(48) Hinder part of palate not inclined strongly upwards. 



(49) Hinder part of alveolar border of mandible not everted. 



(50) Teeth not very small. 



(51) No notch in alveolar border of maxilla to receive apex of p-g* 



