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pq has become much raised anteriorly ; its talon is large, while the 
anterior cusp of the same tooth in Crossarchus here aborts. ;-5 and 
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py are very long and strong. 7 1s absent. 
The anus opens into the middle of a very deep fossa, deeper than 
that of Bdeogale, and like that of Crossarehus. There is also a 
curious scrotum-like prominence hetween the vagina and the anus. 
I have not met with any description of the anal glands other than 
that of Daubenton, who says':—‘“Il se trouvoit de chaque cdété 
de l’anus une poche qui avoit quatre lignes et demi de longueur, et 
trois lignes et demie de largeur, et trois lignes d’epaisseur; le tuyau 
excrétoire de chacune de ces poches aboutissoit au dedans de 
Panus.”’ I strongly suspect, from the form of the anal pouch, that 
there are here, as in Crossarchus, several pairs of anal glands. The 
claws of the manus of Suricata are enormously elongated (cf. fig. 14, u, 
p. 192). Those of the pes are much less so, but still are long. 
Except as above indicated, the characters of this genus agree with 
those of Herpestes; and with it closes the list of the genera of the 
subfamily Herpestine. 
That subfamily is divisible in various ways, according to the number 
of digits, the number of teeth, the presence or absence of a subnasal 
groove, and the number of anal glands, as follows :— 
Section A. Anal glands a single pair....Herpestes, Helogale, 
Cynictis’?, Rhino- 
gale? 
», B. Anal glands in several pairs .. Crossarchus, Suricata, 
Bdeogale? 
Or, Section A. Toes5—5 ............Herpestes, Helogale, 
Ehinogale, Cros- 
sarchus. 
aw tligmd Alu = Fone . Cynictis. 
ae Cd 1 A Bdeogale, Suricata. 
Or, Section A. A subnasal groove ...... Herpestes, Helogale, 
Cynictis, Bdeogale. 
»  B. Nosubnasal groove......hinogale, Crossar- 
chus, Suricata. 
Or, Section A. Pm. ; sph aeRoe aeevees Herpestes (generally), 
Cynictis, Bdeogale. 
ES VN A no diastema ....Helogale, Crossarchus, 
Suricata. 
guile Pr. 2 3. 6is00 wwe. Nee elehinagale, 
The characters of the subfamily Herpestine will be as follows :— 
(1) Claws not strongly curved and not retractile, but pointed and 
very long. 
(2) Orbits sometimes enclosed by bone. 
1 Buffon’s Hist. Nat. vol. xiii. p. 80. 
2 Probably an abnormalit . 
