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



Bonite,' p. 24, pi. 6), who have given an excellent figure of the 

 external form, with an outline of the skull and teeth. The entire 

 skeleton is represented by De Blainville on pi. 3 of his ' Osteo- 

 graphie ' ( Viverra) ; while its skull is admirably figured in profile 

 on pi. 7, the atlas, axis, sternum, and hyoid on pi. 9, its appendi- 

 cular skeleton on pis. 10 and 1 1, and its dentition, both young and 

 adult, on pi. 12. 



The animal comes from Borneo. It was erected by Dr. Gray, 

 first into the tribe Cynogalince^ and then into the family Cynogalidee", 

 mainly on the ground of the nose having no median groove beneath 

 it, a character very useful for zoological purposes, but, as it appears 

 to me, trivial as the mark of a family or subfamily. I do find, 

 however, a groove beneath the nose, though none on the upper lip. 



Fig. 11. 



Pads of left pes of Cynogale, 



Its webbed feet, short tail, long moustaches ^ together with its 

 exceptional upper lip, serve, however, to mark it as a very distinct 

 genus, as does also the absence of the supracondyloid groove of the 

 humerus. The feet are much less bald than in Arctictis. The 

 metatarsus, indeed, is hairless ; but the tarsus is clothed beneath 

 with short hairs. The claws are rather elongated {cf. fig. 14 E). 



The pollex and hallux are very well developed. 



' P. Z. S. 1864, p. 521. 2 Cat. of Camivora, p. 78. 



^ When the head of this auimal is viewed from above (as in S. Miiller's 

 figure) it presents a singular resemblance to the head of Potamogale. 



