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could be the less objected to, since I have found in Prionodon 

 pardicolor a tendency to a narrow prolongation upwards of the 

 plantar pad, which I have not found in Prionodon gracilis. I hold 

 them therefore distinct quite provisionally and doubtfully. As this 

 species seems never to have been represented, I have thought it 

 well to figure it now. 



Fig. 7. 



External form of Poiana. 



The genera yet noticed (Fiverra, Viverricula, Fossa, Genefta, 

 Prionodon, and Poiana) form a distinct and very closely allied 

 group, the characters of which may be most conveniently given 

 when the next set of forms has been passed in review. 



The genus which it seems to me may best be taken next is the 

 large and polymorphic genus Paradoxurus. It contains about a 

 dozen (mostly more or less imperfectly defined) species, which all 

 come from the Asiatic region, from China, Formosa, Nepal and 

 Tenasserim, to Madras, the Andaman Islands, Ceylon, Malacca, 



