1882.] PROF. ST. -GEORGE MIVART ON THE ^LUROIDEA. 



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xiii. p. 163, pi. 21. It is also described and well-figured by Dr. 

 Gray, in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 869, pi. 74, with a woodcut 

 of the skull, which is long and narrow, approaching Viverricula in 

 this respect. 



The bulla is shaped much as in Viverra ; there is a distinct ali- 

 sphenoid canal ; the paroccipital process depends a little below the 

 bulla. There is, on the skull, a deep antero-posteriorly directed groove 

 along the middle of the dorsum of the forehead and muzzle. The 



Fig. 2. 





Plautar surface of lelt pes of Fossa. 

 1. Small pad adjacent to hallux ; 2. Ditto beneath distal part of tarsus. 



postorbital processes are not so elongated as in Viverricula. The teeth 

 closely resemble those oi Viverra; but the talonof^j^ is rather smaller; 

 jP2 has five cusps, three in front and two behind. Fossa therefore 

 agrees with Viverra in all the characters of the latter genus before 

 enumerated, except sometimes No. l.i, possibly No. 18, and cer- 

 tainly Nos. 24, 38, 39, 40, 42, & 43. 



The genus Genetta consists apparently of five species, distributed 



