1882.] PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ZLUROIDEA. 151 
xiii. p. 163, pl. 21. It is also described and well-figured by Dr. 
Gray, in Proe. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 869, pl. 74, with a woodcut 
of the skull, which is long and narrow, approaching Viverricula in 
this respect. 
The bulla is shaped much as in Viverra; there is a distinct ali- 
sphenoid canal; the paroccipital process depends a little below the 
bulla. There is, on the skull, a deep antero-posteriorly directed groove 
along the middle of the dorsum of the forehead and muzzle. The 
Plantar surface of left pes of Fossa. 
1. Small pad adjacent to hallux; 2. Ditto beneath distal part of tarsus. 
postorbital processes are not so elongated as in Viverricula. The teeth 
closely resemble those of Viverra; but the talon of 4771s rather smaller; 
ar has five cusps, three in front and two behind. Fossa therefore 
agrees with Viverra in all the characters of the latter genus before 
enumerated, except sometimes No. 15, possibly No. 18, and cer- 
tainly Nos. 24, 38, 39, 40, 42, & 43. 
The genus Genetta consists apparently of five species, distributed 
