184 PROF, ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE JELUROIDEA. [Feb. 7, 



The palate is but moderately prolonged behind the last molars. The 

 angle of the mandible is somewhat everted, i. e. bent in the opposite 

 way to that in which it is bent in Marsupials. 



The skull of the Suricate is figured by De Blainville (Osteog., 

 Viverra) on plate 5, its appendicular skeleton on plates 10 and 1 1, 

 and its dentition (including the milk-teeth) on plate 12. The teeth 

 are also figured in F. Cuvier's ' Dents des Mammiferes,' plate 35. 

 I find ^ and ^^ to be very much extended transversely, but to be 

 very shghtly trihedral in horizontal section. -^— is also much ex- 

 tended transversely. ^^ is shaped very much as in Crossarchus, 



Fig. 13. 



Half basis cranii (A) and half mandible (B) of Suricata. 

 c, carotid foramen ; /, fissure in floor of auditory meatus. 



while —^ differs in having its hinder margin hardly, or not at all, 



concave. -^- has its inner tubercle still larger than in Crossarchus ; 

 and it descends quite as much as does the middle one of the three 

 outer cusi)S, which very little exceeds in size the other two outer 

 ones. -^— and -^— are larger and stronger than in Crossarchus ; and 

 -^— is again absent. |j-^ is much as in Crossarchus, but smaller, 

 jj-^ is higher and antero-posteriorly shorter ; its talon bears two 

 cusps side by side, or three cusps in a semicircle ; its anterior part 

 bears two large cusps side by side. The postero-internal cusp of the 

 front part of this tooth of Crossarchus has here become rudimentary. 



