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



As to any scent- or prescrotal gland, Mr. Hodgson says': — "Anal 

 gland very apparently present, but the exact character of it not 

 determinable." Horsfield records^ of Viverra, " Folliculos glandu- 

 losos inter genitaha et anum ;" but of Prionodon he says, " Folliculos 

 supra anum nullos," but with a note of interrogation. The specimen 



Fig. 6. 



Pads of Frionodon. 

 A. Pads of left maims. B. Pads of left pes. 



examined by me was a male. Not only was there no opening in it 

 between the penis and testes, but no glandular structure in that 

 situation beneath the skin could be detected, eitlier by me or by 

 Mr. William Pearson, who assisted me in the dissection. There 

 were the usual anal glands and a pair of exceedingly large Cowper's 

 glands, each of them about equalling in size the whole of the bilobed 

 prostate. 



The skull has its general shape and proportions and the form of 

 the auditory bulla much as in Genetta. The condyloid foramen is 

 exposed. The paroccipital is neither depending nor prominent, and 

 the mastoid no more prominent than in the Genets. There is a 

 long alisphenoid canal, which opens behind in a depression common 

 to it and to the foramen ovale. The postorbital processes are less 

 marked than in any hitherto ; and the skull is antero-posteriorly 



^ Calcutta Journal of Nat. Hist. vol. ii. part 2 (1842), p. 51. 

 ^ ' Zoological Researches.' 



