1882.] PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE jELUROIDEA. 161 



Sumatra, Borneo, Java, and the Philippine Islands. They all 

 agree in having the poUex and hallux well developed, with the 

 metatarsus bald beneath, and also the tarsus, save beneath the heel, 

 where the hair extends across in an evenly curved line. The claws are 

 at least as sharply curved and retractile as in the Genets (c/. fig. 14 B, 

 p. 192). The tail seems to be, at any rate in some species, slightly 

 prehensile. 



The best description I know of the genus is in Temminck's 

 'Monographic de Mammalogie,' vol. ii. p. 312. 



As illustrations of this genus we have : — some plates in Cuvier's 

 ' Mammiferes,' vol. ii. ; Ogilby, Zool. Jonrn. iv. tab. 35, suppl. ; 

 Horsfield, Zool. Research, in Java ( Viverra niusangd) ; Buffon, 

 Suppl. iii. pi. 47(Genette de France) ; Gray, ' Indian Zoology,' tabulae 

 7, 8, 10, and 11 ; (P. typus) Otto, Nov. Act. Nat. Cun xvii. 2, 

 tabulae 72 & 73 ; Temminck, Monographic de Mammal, ii. pis. 64- 

 66 (skulls) ; Marsden's 'Sumatra,' t. 12 (the Musang); Jacquinot & 

 Pucheran, Voy. au Pole Sud, Zool. iii. p. 2.5, pi. 6 ; P. Z. S. 1856^ 

 pis. 47 & 48, and P. Z. S. 1877, pi. 71. Skull: in Brit. Mus. Cat. 

 (1869), pp. &7 (fig. 9), 70 (fig. 10), 71 (fig. U); Cuvier, 'Planche^ 

 des Mammiferes,' Le Pargoune and Paradoxure de Nubie; De Blain- 

 ville's ' Osteographie ' {Fiverra), pi. 2 (skeleton), pi. 6 (skull), pi. 7 

 (skulls), pi. 9 (parts of axial skeleton and hyoid), pi. 10 (fore 

 limb), pi. 11 (hind limb), pi. 12 (teeth), adult and young. 



In this old and well-known genus the skull is less elongated than 

 in Fiverra. The auditory bulla is, as Prof. Flower has remarked', 

 shaped more like that of Fiverra than that of Genetta. It is 

 "conical, broad, and truncated behind, pointed in front, and rather 

 compressed at the sides, which meet in a ridge." The anterior part 

 of the bulla is very small indeed. The opening of the auditory 

 meatus is not large ; and its hinder lip is slightly the more pro- 

 minent. The postorbital processes are generally (not always) rather 

 long and pointed ; and the skull is much pinched in laterallj'^ behind 

 them. The condyloid foramen is quite covered in and concealed. 

 The paroccipital process is depending ; and the mastoid is much as 

 in the Civet. There is an alisphenoid canal. There is a distinct 

 but short carotid canal, the hinder end of which opens near the 

 anterior end of the inner wall of the hinder (and larger) chamber of 

 the bulla. The teeth, as is well known, are less sectorial in 

 character than are those of the genera as yet noticed ; but there are 

 considerable differences in different species. 



On comparing the teeth of what seems to be an average specimen 

 of Paradoxurus with those of Fiverra, I find -^-^ broader in pro- 

 portion to its length and less vertically extended, with a well- 

 developed cingulum ; ^— with its postero-outer cusp very much 

 smaller and its inner cusp more massive. "-^- is more quadrate, and 



' L. c. p. 19. He says also : — " The inner or posterior chamber presents, in 

 some species at least, the ]3eculiarity of being permanently distinct and move- 

 able, not only from the other axial bones, but also from the tympanic portion 

 of the bulla." 



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