158 PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ZLUROIDEA. [Feb. 7, 
As to any scent- or prescrotal gland, Mr. Hodgson says’:—“‘ Anal 
gland very apparently present, but the exact character of it not 
determinable.” Horsfield records’ of Viverra, ‘‘ Folliculos glandu- 
losos inter genitalia et anum;” but of Prionodon he says, “ Folliculos 
supra anum nullos,” but with a note of interrogation. The specimen 
Fig. 6. 
Pads of Prionodon. 
A. Pads of left manus. 3B. Pads of left pes. 
examined by me was a male. Not only was there no opening in it 
between the penis and testes, but no glandular structure in that 
situation beneath the skin could be detected, either by me or by 
Mr. William Pearson, who assisted me in the dissection. There 
were the usual anal glands and a pair of exceedingly large Cowper’s 
glands, each of them about equalling in size the whole of the bilobed 
rostate. 
The skull has its general shape and proportions and the form of 
the auditory bulla much as in Genetta. The condyloid foramen is 
exposed. The paroccipital is neither depending nor prominent, and 
the mastoid no more prominent than in the Genets. There is a 
long alisphenoid canal, which opens behind in a depression common 
to it and to the foramen ovale. The postorbital processes are less 
marked than in any hitherto; and the skull is antero-posteriorly 
1 Calcutta Journal of Nat. Hist. vol. ii. part 2 (1842), p. 51. 
? «Zoological Researches.’ 
