160 PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ZLUROIDEA. [Feb. 7; 
could be the less objected to, since I have found in Prionodon 
pardicolor a tendency to a narrow prolongation upwards of the 
plantar pad, which I have not found in Prionodon gracilis. I hold 
them therefore distinct quite provisionally and doubtfully. As this 
species seems never to have been represented, I have thought it 
well to figure it now. 
External form of Poiana. 
The genera yet noticed (Viverra, Viverricula, Fossa, Genetta, 
Prionodon, and Poiana) form a distinct and very closely allied 
group, the characters of which may be most conveniently given 
when the next set of forms has been passed in review. 
The genus which it seems to me may best be taken next is the 
large and polymorphic genus Paradozurus. It contains about a 
dozen (mostly more or less imperfectly defined) species, which all 
come from the Asiatic region, from China, Formosa, Nepal and 
Tenasserim, to Madras, the Andaman Islands, Ceylon, Malacca, 
