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uniformly horizontal; the anterior lip of the external auditory 
opening is more prominent; and the zygomata are much less arched 
f. 3 ; rw 
outwards, a are both relatively much larger. “= is also large 
relatively, while a *~* is developed; *~* has a larger internal 
tubercle ; = is also relatively larger. Dr. Jentink tells us that the 
teeth of concolor are quite like those of olivacea. 
It appears that itis a species of this genus which is the Vansire of 
Buffon (Hist. Nat. xiii. p. 167, pl. 21), as had it been Galidia the 
black-ringed tail would surely have been indicated. 
These three genera seem to me to forma section apart, somewhat 
intermediate between the Viverrine and the Herpestine sections, 
though (as before said) I regard them as more nearly allied to the 
latter than to the former. 
To the characters to be derived from digits, claws, skulls, teeth, 
colour, and habitat may be added that of the absence of an internal 
condyloid canal to the humerus. I propose then (as I before said) 
to separate this section as a subfamily under the name Galidictine. 
The characters of the Galidictine will be as follows :— 
-(1) Claws not strongly curved and retractile, but yet sometimes 
more Viverrine than Herpestine. 
(2) Orbits never enclosed by bone. 
(3) Hinder chamber of auditory bulla rather crested. 
(4) Anterior and posterior margins of auditory opening about 
equally prominent, in the anterior one slightly more so. 
(5) Floor of anterior part of bulla not perforated or fissured, 
but deeply pitted. 
(6) Angle of mandible not everted. 
(7) Mastoid prominent. 
(8) Paroccipital processes not depending. 
(9) Aperture of auditory meatus small and oval. 
(10) No alisphenoid canal. 
(11) Carotid artery passing through a conspicuous foramen in the 
basis cranii. 
(12) No prescrotal glands. 
(13) Anus opening on the surface of the body, and not into a 
cutaneous invagination (7) 
(14) One pair of anal glands. 
(15) No supracondyloid foramen to humerus. 
(16) No bony processes indicate the place of an alisphenoid canal. 
(17) Pollex and hallux both present. 
(18) Czeecum present, moderately long. 
(19) Tarsus and metatarsus hairy or bald. 
A more anomalous form of the Viverrine family is that which 
has been taken to constitute the genus Hupleres by its describer 
Doyére’, who figured the animal and its (immature)-skull. The 
immature skull has been also fully figured by De Blainville2, with 
the skeleton of the hind leg and foot and the milk-dentition. The 
1 Ann. Se. Nat. 1835, iv. p. 281, pl. 18. 
2 Ostéog., Viverras, pls. 8, 11, and 12, 
