170 PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ZLUROIDEA. [Feb. 7, 
Viverra, pls. 6 & 12, under the name Paradoxurus hamiltonii. 
There is a short description of its anatomy, by Prof. Flower, in 
P. Z. S. 1872, p. 683. 
It comes from Fernando Po and Western Africa, and also, it is 
said, from Zanzibar. 
The Viverrine section of the Viverrine are rather more African 
than Asiatic; but this is thé only African form of the Paradoxurine 
section of that subfamily. It seems to be a Paradoxure separated 
from the others by a more carnivorous dentition, and from all other 
fBluroidea by the non-ossification of the hinder and larger portion 
of the auditory bulla, which remains cartilaginous. 
There is but one known species, the head and body of which 
measure about 43/2, and the tail 30'°5. It is of a greyish- 
brown colour, black-spotted, and with the tail indistinctly ringed. 
There are three short black stripes on the nape (one from the 
forehead and one from each ear); and there is a yellow spot on 
each shoulder. The belly is dirty white. The tarsus and meta- 
tarsus are about as bald as in Paradorurus. The muzzle is shorter 
than in any other of the Viverride. Not only is the hinder part of 
the bulla cartilaginous, but its anterior part is rather more bullate 
than (at least generally) in Paradorurus. The opening of the auditory 
meatus is not large. There is no pterygoid fossa. The postorbital 
processes are long and pointed; and the skull is much contracted 
just behind them. The sagittal and lambdoidal ridges, especially 
the latter, are largely developed. The muzzle is relatively shorter 
than in any other Viverrine yet reviewed. The paroccipital appears 
to be depending (though this cannot be asserted in the absence of 
the bulla); and the mastoid is larger than in any genus as yet here 
noticed. There is an alisphenoid canal close to the foramen ovale ; 
and the condyloid foramen is very much exposed. There is no 
anterior carotid foramen other than the usual foramen lacerum. 
The ascending ramus of the mandible is flattened beneath in a way 
not existing in any genus yet reviewed, and certainly not in Para- 
doxurus; and the angle is pressed up exceptionally towards the 
condyle. The teeth are formed on the type of those of the Genet, 
but are modified in a more sectorial direction. “= is very minute, 
and sometimes aborts altogether’. *** is smaller than in the Genets. 
P.4 ; : 4 
—— has a posterior cusp as large as in the Genets, and the inner 
cusp even a little smaller. ;,; has its talon*much smaller than in 
Genetta; and oa is a rounded rudimentary tooth, smaller than 
that of the Genets. 
No infraorbital foramen opens above *-*; and yf bites against 7+. 
There is no caecum, as was ascertained by Prof. Flower*. I can 
find no record as to the existence of prescrotal® or anal glands. 
1 As on both sides of a skull in the Royal College of Surgeons’ Museum, and 
on one side of another skull there. 
2 P. Z.S. 1872, p. 683. 
8 Through the kindness of Mr. Forbes I have been able to’ ascertain the 
presence, in a female Nandinia, of a bald patch, no doubt glandular, in the 
situation of the prescrotal glandular structure of Genetta. 
