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PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ^LUROIDEA. [JuDC 6, 



gituclinal folds appear, which extend along the rest of the greater 

 curvature. The pyloric valve was very little marked. 



In Hemigalea I found the stomach to be very like that of the 

 Genet, with quite similar internal folds. That of Viverra civetta is 

 relatively shorter and more uniformly capacious than that of the 

 Genet ; and the pylorus exhibits a small prolongation, extending as a 

 cul-de-sac beside the duodenum. 



The stomach of Arctictis exaggerates the characters of the 

 stomach of Genetta, its lesser curvature being extremely curved. 

 Ineffaceable folds extend along the inside of the lesser curvature, 

 from the pyloric side of the cesophagal opening on towards the 

 pylorus. There are none such in Genetta. There are also strong 

 ineffaceable folds in the pyloric portion of the stomach. The pylorus 



Fig. 7. 



Stomach of Prkmodon, cut open. 



continues on into a sort of cul-de-sac, which extends for a little 

 beside the beginning of the duodenum. The bile-ducts enter full 

 4" from the pylorus. 



In Prionodon I found the stomach to be shorter and more 

 globular than that of the Genet, and of remarkably large size in 

 proportion to the size of the body. 



In Herpestes I found the stomach long, and very much con- 

 stricted towards its middle. This constriction does not appear in 

 two dried specimens of stomach of Herpestes in the Museum of the 

 College of Surgeons, Herpestes, however, is a very large and varied 

 genus '. 



In Crossarchus the stomach is short and globular, but the cardia 

 is considerably prolonged. 



^ Hunter saya (' Essays and Observations,' toI. ii. p. 66) of the Ichneumon : — 

 "The stomach is almost a round cavity, the small end as thick and short as the 

 large." 



