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PROP. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE iELtJROlDEA. [JunC 6, 



In Prionodon I found the caecum to be very small and short, but 

 strongly curved and acutely pointed. 



Hunter says (' Essays and Observations,' vol. ii. p. 66) that in the 

 Ichneumon there is no csecum. It is therefore perhaps occasionally 



Fig. 8. 



A. Caecum of Genetta. 



B. Csecum of Prionodon. 

 D. Cfficum of Cynietis. 



C. Cfficiun of Galidia. 



absent in that large genus. In a spirit-specimen of Herpestes, 

 however, I found a long, slender and pointed caecum ; while in the 

 series of dried caeca of Herpestes in the College of Surgeons some 

 caeca are rather long, while others are short. Specimens of Para- 

 doxurus exhibit a similar range of variation from moderately long to 

 short and rounded. 



In Suricata the ceecum is short, and shaped much as in the Cat. 



