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The tongue is much like that of the Civet, and with no patch of 
greatly enlarged papillee on its anterior half. 
The characters before given of Viverra apply also to Nandinia, 
except nos. 3, 7, 14, 24, 28, 35, 37, 38, 40, 42, 43, 45 (sometimes), 
46, and 54. 
With Nandinia closes the second set of forms of the subfamily 
Viverrine ; and the characters of these two sets may be expressed as 
follows :— 
In the Viverrine section of the Viverrine we find :-— 
(1) Auditory bulla entirely ankylosed into one mass. 
(2) Bulla not always, or greatly, narrowing anteriorly. 
(3) Palate never much prolonged beyond hindmost molars. 
(4) Mastoid never very prominent. 
(5) A cecum constantly present. 
(6) Teeth always sectorial, never very small ; anterior premolars 
not very long. 
(7) Margins of palate not nearly parallel. 
(8) A supracondyloid foramen to the humerus. 
(9) A median groove beneath the nose on the upper lip. 
(10) dared and metatarsus often entirely hairy, never entirely 
naked. 
(11) Tail long. 
In the Paradoxurine section we meet with the following cha- 
arcters :— 
(1) Auditory bulla often in two pieces ; hinder chamber in one 
species not ossified. 
(2) Bulla, when ossified, always greatly narrowing anteriorly. 
(3) Palate sometimes much prolonged beyond last molars. 
(4) Mastoid in one form very prominent. 
(5) Caecum sometimes absent. 
(6) Teeth sometimes but little sectorial and occasionally very 
small; anterior premolars not very long, 
(7) Margins of palate not nearly parallel. 
(8) A supracondyloid foramen to humerus. 
(9) A median groove beneath the nose, on the upper lip. 
(10) Tarsus and metatarsus often entirely naked, never entirely 
hairy. 
(11) Tail long. 
The genus Cynogale was founded by Gray’ on a skin in the col- 
lection of our Society, supposed to have formed part of the collec- 
tion of Sir Stamford Raffles, and therefore to have come from 
Sumatra. It was described and figured in 1837 by De Blainville, 
under the name Viverra carcharias, who gives some anatomical 
details (Ann. Sc. Nat. 2° sér. vii. p. 280, pl. 8); and in 1839 by S. 
Miiller (Zoog. Ind. Archip. p. 115, pl. 17, showing the external 
form, skull, and dentition), under the name Potamophilus barbatus ; 
and in 1841 by MM. Eydoux and Souleyet (in ‘ Voyage de la 
1 P.Z.8, 1836, p. 88, 
