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size; and —^ are fairly developed. In other respects the cranial and 

 dental characters are those of Paradoxurus. 



Terominck says nothing about the scent- or prescrotal gland, which 

 I presume is as in Paradoxurvs. S. Miiller is also silent about it. 



Arctogale, then, differs from Fiverra as to Nos. 24, 33, 47, 48, 

 49, and 50. 



Half basis cranii (A) and half mandible (B) oi Arctogale. 

 a, Anterior opening of the alisphenoid canal; o, foramen OTale; c, carotid 



canal. 



The genus Hemigalea was instituted by Jourdan (Compt. Rend. 

 1837, p. 442, Ann. des Sc. Nat. vol. viii. p. 277) for the Paradoxurvs 

 derbianus of Gray (P. Z. S. 1837, p. G7, and Loudon's Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. 1. 1837, p. 579). It is the Viverra hardwickii of Gray (Spic 

 Zool. n p. 9, 1. 1.), the Viverra boiei of S. Muller (Zoog. Ind. Arcbip. 

 p. 121, t. xvni., which contains a representation of the external 

 torm, skull, and dentition), and the Hemigale zehre of the 



