1882.] PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ZLUROIDEA. 173 
The colour of the coat is red-brown, with no markings save a very 
narrow black line along the crown of the elongated head. The ears 
are small, the whiskers very long. The hair is crisp, short, and 
thick. The tail is very short, tapering rapidly. A bunch of 
whisker grows from below each ear as well as on each side of the 
nose. The claws are strong, sharp, and retractile. Length of head 
and body about 68!'-5, that of tail about 14/5. 
The cranium is of an intermediate type—somewhat Civet-like and 
Paradoxure-like. The bulla is shaped like that of the Civet, but is 
less prominent. The anterior part of it is especially flattened. The 
opening of the external auditory meatus is small. The postorbital 
processes are very small indeed ; but the skull is extremely narrowed 
and pinched in behind them. The condyloid foramen is quite con- 
cealed. The sagittal ridge is pretty well developed, and the lamb- 
doidal ridge is very large. The paroccipital is depending. The 
mastoid is prominent, though not so markedly so as in Nandinia. 
There is an alisphenoid canal which opens posteriorly opposite 
and close to the foramen ovale. The carotid canal opens pos- 
teriorly near the middle of the inner margin of the larger chamber 
of the bulla; while anteriorly the carotid artery enters by the fora- 
men lacerum, notching the sphenoid. There is a pterygoid fossa, 
and a very large infraorbital foramen, which opens above the == 
The palate is exceptional in shape, having nearly parallel lateral 
margins. Dentally, Cynogale is a much modified Paradoxure. The 
differences are mainly as follows :———~ is relatively larger and more 
nearly equal to Mt, +++ is almost quite as large as **, which has 
its inner tubercle still larger in proportion to the rest of the tooth 
than in Paradoxurus. It has three external cusps, the first and 
third being largely and equally developed, and the middle cusp not 
descending very much below them, a form of tooth unlike that of 
any other yet here-described Viverrine animal. ¥:5 is of very great 
vertical extent (relatively greater than any yet described here) ; and 
the same may be said of =, which is somewhat recurved towards 
its apex. 7 is a longish caniniform tooth, recurved towards its 
apex and placed close behind the canine. The lower premolars are 
correspondingly developed. 5-3 has two small posterior basal cusps. 
pq has a very long talon with two cusps (one before the other), and 
then also an accessory anterior cusp. j;; has a talon which is so 
large that it forms half the crown of the tooth, and bears three or 
four tubercles. 
As to the milk-dentition, 
intermediate in character between * = and br but is more like 
P83. Instead of being much like the permanent sectorial (as in 
Genetta and so many other forms), its very small inner tubercle is 
placed inside quite the hindest part of the tooth. D.* is very 
peculiar : it is like the permanent sectorial, but with the inner part 
rather more posterior in position, and with a talon (bearing an inner 
D. 2 D. 3 
: : Bap DaiRan 
is very much like *, 2:3 ig 
