202 PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ZLUROIDEA. [Feb. 7, 
(14) ™:1 is small and minute, occasionally absent. 
(15) The anterior and posterior external cusps of P:4 are about 
equal, and nearly approach in size the median external one. 
(16) 575 has a large or small talon. 
(17) The outer incisors greatly exceed the middle ones. 
(18) The humerus wants the supracondyloid foramen. 
(19) The penis is boneless. 
(20) The ears are long, erect, and (with one exception) pointed. 
(21) The tarsus and metatarsus are entirely hairy. 
(22) There is one small plantar pad and one beneath each digit. 
(23) The anus opens into a sac. 
(24) The anal glands vary from one to three pairs. 
(25) There are no prescrotal scent-glands. 
(26) There is a moderate ceecum. 
(27) The tongue is furnished with large conical papille on its 
dorsum ; but these are not hard as in the Felide. 
(28) The calloso-marginal sulcus joins the crucial sulcus. 
(29) Angle of mandible flattened along its inferior border, and 
pressed up nearer to the condyle, relatively, than in the 
Felide. 
(30) Proportional length of limbs longer than in Viverride. 
(31) Length of muzzle to cranium intermediate between Viverride 
and Felide. 
(32) Dentition extremely sectorial, while it is nevertheless formed 
for crushing. 
(33) Tail rather shorter, but not as in Lynxes. 
(34) The clitoris may be traversed by the urogenital canal. 
(35) Dorsal vertebrze not less than fifteen. 
(36) Postorbital processes short and blunt. 
(37) Paroccipital processes depending. 
(38) Mastoid rather prominent. 
(39) No carotid foramen in sphenoid. 
(40) Nose and upper lip medianly grooved. 
(41) Palate not much prolonged behind last molar. 
(42) No pterygoid fossa. 
(43) Enormous cranial ridges. 
The genus Prote/es, long known’ as regards its skin and skeleton, 
had its anatomy first fully described by Professor Flower °, who 
pointed out previously * the characters of the basis cranii, and its 
affinity, thus indicated, to the Herpestine and the Hyenine. Save 
for its greater slenderness, the animal has the general form of an 
Hyeena, with similarly long, erect, and pointed ears, and with a well- 
developed dorsal mane. There are five fore digits (though the pollex 
is short), but only four digits to the hind foot. There is a single 
1 First described in Sparrman’s ‘ Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, 1772- 
1776. See P.Z.8. 1869, p. 475. 
2 P. Z. 8. 1869, p. 474, pl. 36, with various anatomical woodcuts. 
3 PZ. 8.1869, p. 28. 
