424 Miscellaneous. 
and Dalmatia. I found it under stones and among herbage in the 
valley of St. Nicholas, on the way to Zermatt. This species belongs 
to the section or subgenus Triodopsis of Rafinesque, vues of 
Fitzinger, Gonostoma of Held, and Anchistoma of H. & 
J. ies JEFFREYS. 
Notice of the Falanaka of Madagascar (Eupleres Goudotii ?). 
By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. &e. 
The British Museum has lately received from Madagascar an 
animal under the name Falanaka, which is new to our collection. 
It is most likely the “Falanouc” of Flacourt, described from a 
young Uis about E inches long, which M. Goudot obtained 
in Tamat and gave the Museum of Paris, and which M. 
d describe in o : ye des Sciences gite under 
the n of Eupleres Goudotii (vol. iv. p. 281, tab, v 
ii.). 
It webs with the description in most ie Peele except that it 
has no indication of a black streak across the shoulders. But I 
suppose that, as the animal was figured from a specimen in spirit, 
the band was produced by the skin being folded there so that the 
dark tips of the hairs were all clustered together in this part, as 1s 
often the case. The young skull of this animal is described and 
figured in = same paper, and also in Blainville’s ‘Ostéogr.’ Viverra, 
tab. viil., xi 
The adult animal may be thus described :—Head elongate, nose 
very much produced, elongate, conical, acute, rounded below, with 
8 very narrow central nick beneath the no oss whiskers slender, 
moderately long ; muzzle bald, cartilaginous; nostrils open on the 
side; lower jaw narrow in front ; ears rounded, hairy on the outside ; 
body elongate, rather slender, closely covered with hair; fur olive, 
minutely punctulated with yellow ; the hairs dark at the ends, with 
two or three very narrow yellow bands; cheeks, temples, chin, 
throat, belly, and inner side of limbs pale bius dish. white ; under- 
side of the base of the tail rather paler than the upperside; legs 
moderate, of equal d ; soles of the feet with six pads, one cen- 
tral; toes 5.5, united in the skin to the claws; claws of four 
front toes elongated, mm ed, compressed, that of the inner toe 
shorter; claws of the hind feet short, that of the inner toe abortive ; 
the hinder side of the tarsus broad, rather concave, hairy; the tail 
fact quite complete) j is rather shorter than the body, cylindrical, 
neate, covered with abundance of hair, which is rather longer 
than that on the fuck. 
Length of body 22 inches, of tail 101 inches. 
oyére regards the Eupleres as “Himin a distinct family, 
called the Euplériens, of the Digitigrade Insectivora. Blainville 
referred it, in his last work, to the genus Viverra. I think that 
the right place is probably in the tribe Crossarchina of the family 
Rhinogalide, where I placed the genus in the Cat. of Carnivorous 
Mammalia in the Br ritish Museum, p. 176. 
