1882.] PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE EZLUROIDEA, 161 
Sumatra, Borneo, Java, and the Philippine Islands. They all 
agree in having the pollex and hallux well developed, with the 
metatarsus bald beneath, and also the tarsus, save beneath the heel, 
where the hair extends across in an evenly curved line. The claws are 
at least as sharply curved and retractile as in the Genets (cf fig. 14 B, 
p- 192). The tail seems to be, at any rate in some species, slightly 
prehensile. 
The best description I know of the genus is in Temminck’s 
‘Monographie de Mammalogie,’ vol. ii. p. 312. 
As illustrations of this genus we have :—some plates in Cuvier’s 
‘Mammiferes,’ vol. ii.; Ogilby, Zool. Journ. iv. tab. 35, suppl. ; 
Horsfield, Zool. Research. in Java (Viverra musanga); Buffon, 
Suppl. iii. pl. 47 (Genette de France) ; Gray, ‘ Indian Zoology,’ tabule 
7, 8, 10, and 11; (P. ¢ypus) Otto, Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xvii. 2, 
tabule 72 & 73; Temminck, Monographie de Mammal. ii. pls. 64— 
66 (skulls) ; Marsden’s ‘Sumatra,’ t. 12 (the Musang); Jacquinot & 
Pucheran, Voy. au Pole Sud, Zool. iii. p. 25, pl. 6; P. Z.S. 1856, 
pls. 47 & 48, and P. Z. 8.1877, pl. 71. Skull: in Brit. Mus. Cat, 
(1869), pp. 67 (fig. 9), 70 (fig. 10), 71 (fig. 11); Cuvier, ‘ Plancheg 
des Mammiféres,’ Le Pargouné and Paradoxure de Nubie; De Blain- 
ville’s ‘ Ostéographie’ (Viverra), pl. 2 (skeleton), pl. 6 (skull), pl. 7 
(skulls), pl. 9 (parts of axial skeleton and hyoid), pl. 10 (fore 
limb), pl. 11 (hind limb), pl. 12 (teeth), adult and young. 
In this old and well-known genus the skull is less elongated than 
in Viverra. The auditory bulla is, as Prof. Flower has remarked", 
shaped more like that of Viverra than that of Genetta. It is 
‘‘conical, broad, and truncated behind, pointed io front, and rather 
compressed at the sides, which meet in a ridge.’ The anterior part 
of the bulla is very small indeed. The opening of the auditory 
meatus is not large; and its hinder lip is slightly the more pro- 
minent. The postorbital processes are generally (not always) rather 
long and pointed ; and the skull is much pinched in laterally behind 
them. The condyloid foramen is quite covered in and concealed. 
The paroccipital process is depending; and the mastoid is much as 
in the Civet. There is an alisphenoid canal. There is a distinct 
but short carotid canal, the hinder end of which opens near the 
anterior end of the inner wall of the hinder (and larger) chamber of 
the bulla. The teeth, as is well known, are less sectorial in 
character than are those of the genera as yet noticed ; but there are 
considerable differences in different species. 
On comparing the teeth of what seems to be an average specimen 
of Paradocurus with those of Viverra, I find “* broader in pro- 
portion to its length and less vertically extended, with a well- 
developed cingulum ; P.4 with its postero-outer cusp very much 
smaller and its inner cusp more massive. M-} is more quadrate, and 
1 L.c.p.19. He says also:— The inner or posterior chamber presents, in 
some species at least, the peculiarity of being permanently distinct and move- 
able, not only from the other axial bones, but also from the tympanic portion 
of the bulla.” 
Proc. Zoou. Soc.—1882, No. XI. ll 
