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



Viverra, pis. 6 & 12, under the name Paradoxurus hamiltonii. 

 There is a short description of its anatomy, by Prof, Flower, in 

 P. Z. S. 1872, p. 683. 



It comes from Fernando Po and Western Africa, and also, it is 

 said, from Zanzibar. 



The Viverrine section of the Viverrince are rather more African 

 than Asiatic ; but this is the only African form of the Paradoxuriue 

 section of that subfamily. It seems to be a Paradoxure separated 

 from the others by a more carnivorous dentition, and from all other 

 iEluroidea by the non-ossification of the hinder and larger portion 

 of the auditory bulla, which remains cartilaginous. 



There is but one known species, the head and body of which 

 measure about 43"'2, and the tail 3U""5. It is of a greyish- 

 brown colour, black- spotted, and with the tail indistinctly ringed. 

 There are three short black stripes on the nape (one from the 

 forehead and one from each ear) ; and there is a yellow spot on 

 each shoulder. The belly is dirty white. The tarsus and meta- 

 tarsus are about as bald as in Paradoxurus. The muzzle is shorter 

 than in any other of the Fiverridcp. Not only is the hinder part of 

 the bulla cartilaginous, but its anterior part is rather more bullate 

 than (at least generally) in Parudoxurvs. The opening of the auditory 

 meatus is not large. There is no pterygoid fossa. The postorbital 

 processes are long and pointed; and the skull is much contracted 

 just behind them. The sagittal and lambdoidal ridges, especially 

 the latter, are largely developed. The muzzle is relatively shorter 

 than in any other Viverrine yet reviewed. The paroccipilal appears 

 to be depending (though this cannot be asserted in the absence of 

 the bulla) ; and the mastoid is larger than in any genus as yet here 

 noticed. There is an alisphenoid canal close to the foramen ovale ; 

 and the condyloid foramen is very much exposed. There is no 

 anterior carotid foramen other than the usual foramen lacerum. 

 The ascending ramus of the mandible is flattened beneath in a way 

 not existing in any genus yet reviewed, and certainly not in Para- 

 doxurus; and the angle is pressed up exceptionally towards the 

 condyle. The teeth are formed on the type of those of the Genet, 

 but are modified in a more sectorial direction. — is very minute, 

 and sometimes aborts altogether'. — is smaller than in the Genets. 

 — has a posterior cusp as large as in the Genets, and the inner 

 cusp even a little smaller, jj-^ has its talon much smaller than in 



Genetta ; and j^ is a rounded rudimentary tooth, smaller than 



that of the Genets. 



No infraorbital foramen opens above -^—; and so bites against — -• 

 There is no caecum, as was ascertained by Prof. Flower ^ I can 



find no record as to the existence of prescrotaP or anal glands. 



^ As on both sides of a skull in the Eoyal College of Surgeons' Museum, and 

 on one side of another skull there. 



2 P. Z.S.I 872, p. 683. 



^ Through the kindness of Mr. Forbes I have been able to ascertain the 

 presence, in a female Nundlnia, of a bald patch, no doubt glandular, in the 

 situation of the prescrotal glandular structure of Genetta. 



