1882.] PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ZLUROIDEA. 165 
size; and 4-5 are fairly developed. In other respects the cranial and 
dental characters are those of Paradoxurus. 
Temminck says nothing about the scent- or prescrotal gland, which 
I presume is as in Paradovurus. S. Miiller is also silent about it. 
Arctogale, then, differs trom Viverra as to Nos. 24, 33, 47, 48, 
49, and 50. 
Half basis cranii (A) and half mandible (B) of Arctogale. 
a, Anterior opening of the alisphenoid canal; 0, foramen ovale; ¢, carotid 
canal, 
The genus Hemigalea was instituted by Jourdan (Compt. Rend. 
1837, p.442, Ann. des Sc. Nat. vol. viii. p.277) for the Paradoxurus 
derbianus of Gray (P. Z. S. 1837, p. 67, and Loudon’s Mag. Nat. 
Hist. i. 1837, p. 579). It is the Viverra hardwickii of Gray (Spic. 
Zool. ii p. 9, t.i.), the Viverra boiei of S. Muller (Zoog. Ind. Arcbip. 
p- 121, t. xviii., which contains a representation of the external 
form, skull, and dentition), and the Hemigale zebré of the 
