1882.] PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ^LUROIDEA. 507 



In Suricata the stomach is very short and round, while the 

 cardia is extremely short \ 



Cynictis has a stomach more like that of the Genet, but not 

 quite so elongated. There are folds inside the middle part of the 

 greater curvature, but not towards the pylorus, which has a cul-de- 

 sac extending beside the beginning of the duodenum. The cardia is 

 very elongated. 



The stomach of Galidia is very like that of CrossarcTius. Its 

 cardia is of considerable size, and elongated. In Proteles it is short 

 and much bent, and shows a tendency to the formation of a pyloric 

 cul-de-sac. There is a large cardia ; but it is not prolonged as in 

 Cynictis, Crossarchus, and Galidia. There are considerable internal 

 folds, as described by Professor Flower ", who remarks : — " The 

 whole organ closely resembles that of the Armadillos, which the 

 Proteles resembles in the nature of its food, though so widely 

 removed in zoological position." The Hyaena has a rather rounded 

 stomach, more or less resembling that of Proteles. Professor 

 Flower says ^ :—" The stomach is less elongated than in Felis, its 

 fundus being very little developed." 



The Intestine and Caecum. 



In Genetta tigrina I found the length of the small and large 

 intestines to be respectively about 120" and 14"-2.5, the caecum 

 being 2"-75. The caecum was obtusely pointed, with thin walls 

 and without glands, save a minute Peyer's patch, situated on the 

 inner side of its very apex. 



As to Felis, Hunter found the small intestine in the Lion to be 

 four times as long as the body, and the large intestine to be two 

 thirds that length. In the Hyjiena the small intestine is about 

 eight times the length of the larger. In Proteles the intestinal 

 canal is not five times the length of the body *. In Hycena the 

 large intestine is from one eighth to one sixth the length of the small 

 intestine. In Crocuta^ it is less than one twelfth. 



Amongst the dried preparations in the Museum of the College 

 of Surgeons I find parts of the intestine of a Lion and a Tiger, in both 

 of which there is a rather long, simple caecum, which is in both (but 

 especially so in the Lion) relatively longer than in the csecum of 

 Felis catus. Hunter found the caecum to be from 2 to 3 inches 

 long in the Lion. 



In Viverra civetta the caecum is relatively a little longer than in 

 Genetta ; but a dried specimen of Viverra tangalunga exhibits a 

 short and rounded caecum, while one of Viverricula is also rounded, 

 but longer. 



^ For figures of the Suricate's stomach and csecum see Owen's ' Anatomy of 

 Vertebrates,' vol. iii. pp. 444, 445. 

 = P. Z. S. 1869, p. 474. 



3 ' Medical Times and Gazette,' Jan. 15, 1872, p. 679. 

 * Ibid. ^ 



' P.Z.S. 1879, p. 84. 



