180 PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ELUROIDEA. [ Feb. 7, 
millim. 
Dienathpotratinatses Joscsie'. see 3 mtd SE et ea 
Rensimohimans os. OGG)... sss sede 6 skit dees yee eae 
ibenetinat-thitdidigth o.;. J..:.! 2): nerd, | RhGwiowe Be 21:0 
Rens Mh teMOMA So. oss REEL LE RR 68-0 
Phenethyof Abia 2 ou i... ')s2 wera eh Beate Rial Riel ak eee 
Benothrompeseis:. ics is Osis Rela kg eae 82°0 
Length of fourth digit-of pes 20d .tieswen . vce gadlenl 23°0 
Dr. Peters describes the liver as consisting of three main lobes, the 
middle one of which has the ligamentum teres on its lett and the 
gall-bladder on its right—the left lobe being single, with the right 
lobe divided by notches into secondary lobes. Dr. Giinther had the 
kindness to place at my disposal for examination the viscera of the 
specimen in the British Museum. Unfortunately its liver was in a 
very bad state and much injured ; it appeared to me, however, to 
consist of three main lobes, corresponding respectively (1) to the left 
lateral, (2) to the left central, and (3) to the right central and right 
lateral united, and containing the gall-bladder. The caudate lobe 
seemed to be of much the same size as in Herpestes. I could not 
distinguish the Spigelian lobe. 
Dr. Peters does not describe the anal glands ; but, from the form 
of the anal sac, there are probably more than two pairs of them, 
as in Crossarchus. 
Length of head and body 40", of tail 30". 
There are said to be three species—two from the Mozambique, and 
one from the Gaboon. 
Except as above pointed out, the characters of Bdeogale are those 
of Herpestes. 
The genus Rhinogale was formed by Dr. Gray, in 1864 (P. Z. S. 
p- 573), for a rather large Herpestiform animal, brought from 
Eastern Africa by Dr. Meller. The skull is represented by Dr. Gray, 
and also in his * Catalogue of Carnivora,’ p. 173. The external 
form has been just represented by Mr. Oldfield Thomas in our 
‘Proceedings.’ ‘The creature differs from all those yet here noticed, 
except Cynogale, in that the nose has no central groove below. 
There is both a hallux and a pollex ; the hair is annulated ; and the 
tarsus is hairy. 
The skull in the British Museum (No. 1437 a, from skin, 64. 8. 
23. 1) has an herpestiform bulla; but the anterior chamber is very 
much less than the posterior one. The external auditory meatus is 
small and triangular, with one angle downwards. The postorbital 
processes of the frontal nearly join the much smaller ones of the 
malars. The condyloid foramen is exposed. The lambdoidal ridge 
is rather large, and the sagittal ridge moderate. The paroccipital 
process does not depend. ‘The mastoid is much as in Herpestes ; 
the pterygoid processes are very long, and the pterygoid fossee very 
small. There is a distinét, but very short, alisphenoid canal. The 
carotid canal is as in Herpestes. The anterior part of the bulla has 
a distinct round perforation in its floor, just below and within the 
