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PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ^LUROIDEA. [Feb. 1 , 



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the accessory tubercle on that ridge larger ; -^— is the largest 

 deciduous tooth, and nearly as extended antero-posteriorly as is the 

 ^^ ; finally, 5-^ has a larger talon, which by itself constitutes nearly 



half the tooth. 



The external form of the Genet is figured by Buffon, and three 

 kinds ("de Barbaric," " de Senegal," and " pantherine") by 

 F. Cuvier in his 'Planches des Mamm.' De Blainville (Osteogra- 

 phie,' Viverra) gives the skull (plate viii.), details of the axial 

 skeleton (plate ix.), and of the appendicular sketeton (plates x. 



and xi.). 



A very important difference between Genetta and Viverra consists 

 in the absence in the former of the pouch or sac for storing the 



Fig. 5. 



External appearauce of cutaneous folds i-elatetl to tlic prescrotal 

 sceut-glands of the female of Gcnefta tujrina. 

 a.g. Needles inserted into the aperture of the two anal glands. 

 ■ " - Folds of scent -dand. v. Vagina. 



Anus 



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secretion of the scent-gland. Instead of this I found, in a female 

 Genetta tigrina, only a shallow cutaneous fold or longitudinal median 

 depression. This groove or fold extended from the small orifice of 

 the vagina towards, but not nearly to, the anus. From this median 

 superficial depression two longitudinal grooves extended foruards 

 and outwards on either side, whereof the two posterior were the 

 larger. Beneath these grooves were two scent-glands, the product 

 of which could be forced (by squeezing) through a multitude of 

 minute pores into the depressed parts of the folds — the hinder 

 rather than the anterior of the two pairs of diverging ones. Similar 

 glands and folds were found by ]\f . Chatin in the male of Genetta 



