180 PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ELUROIDEA. [Feb. 7, 



millim. 



Length of radius 54"5 



Length of manus 5 1 "0 



Length of third digit 21*0 



Length of femora 68*0 



Length of tibia 720 



Length of pes 82-0 



Length of fourth digit of pes 23"0 



Dr. Peters describes the liver as consisting of three main lobes, the 

 middle one of which has the ligamentum teres on its left and the 

 gall-bladder on its right — the left lobe being single, with the right 

 lobe divided by notches into secondary lobes. Dr. Giiiither had the 

 kindness to place at my disposal for examination the viscera of the 

 specimen in the British Museum. Unfortunately its liver was in a 

 very bad state and much injured ; it appeared to me, however, to 

 consist of three main lobes, corresponding respectively (1) to the left 

 lateral, (2) to the left central, and (3) to the right central and right 

 lateral united, and containing the gall-bladder. The caudate lobe 

 seemed to be of much the same size as in Herpestes. 1 could not 

 distinguish the Spigelian lobe. 



Dr. Peters does not describe the anal glands ; but, from the form 

 of the anal sac, there are probably more than two pairs of them, 

 as in Crossarchus. 



Length of head and body 40", of tail 30". 



There are said to be three species — two from the Mozambique, and 

 one from the Gaboon. 



Except as above pointed out, the characters of Bdeogale are those 

 of Herpestes. 



The genus Rhinoyale was formed by Dr. Gray, in 1864 (P. Z. S. 

 p. 5/3), for a rather large Herpestiform animal, brought from 

 Eastern Africa by Dr. Meller. The skull is represented by Dr. Gray, 

 and also in his ' Catalogue of Carnivora,' p. 173. Tbe external 

 form has been just represented by Mr. Oldfield Thomas in our 

 'Proceedings.' The creature differs from all those yet here noticed, 

 except Cynogale, in that the nose has no central groove below. 

 There is both a hallux and a pollex ; tbe hair is annulated ; and the 

 tarsus is hairy. 



The skull in the British Museum (No. 1437 a, from skin, 64. 8. 

 23. ]) has an herpestiform bulla; but the anterior chamber is very 

 much less than the posterior one. The external auditory meatus is 

 small and triangular, with one angle downwards. The postorbital 

 processes of the frontal nearly join the much smaller ones of the 

 nialars. The condyloid foramen is exposed. The lambdoidal ridge 

 is rather large, and the sagittal ridge moderate. The paroccipital 

 process does not depend. The mastoid is much as in Herpe.stes ; 

 the pterygoid processes are very long, and the pterygoid fossae very 

 small. There is a distinct, but very short, alisphenoid canal. The 

 carotid canal is as in Herpestes. The anterior part of the bulla has 

 a distinct round [)erforation in its floor, just below and within the 



