506 PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ZLUROIDEA. [June 6, 
gitudinal folds appear, which extend along the rest of the greater 
curvature. The pyloric valve was very little marked. 
In Hemigalea I found the stomach to be very like that of the 
Genet, with quite similar internal folds. That of Viverra civetia is 
relatively shorter and more uniformly capacious than that of the 
Genet ; and the pylorus exhibits a small prolongation, extending as a 
cul-de-sac beside the ducdenum. 
The stomach of 4Aretictis exaggerates the characters of the 
stomach of Genetta, its lesser curvature being extremely curved. 
Ineffaceable folds extend along the inside of the lesser curvature, 
from the pyloric side of the cesophagal opening on towards the 
pylorus. There are none such in Genetia. There are also strong 
ineffaceable folds in the pyloric portion of the stomach. The pylorus 
Stomach of Prionodon, cut open. 
continues on into a sort of cul-de-sac, which extends for a little 
beside the beginning of the duodenum. The bile-ducts enter full 
4" from the pylorus. 
In Prionodon I found the stomach to be shorter and more 
globular than that of the Genet, and of remarkably large size in 
proportion to the size of the body. 
In Herpestes I found the stomach long, and very much con- 
stricted towards its middle. This constriction does not appear in 
two dried specimens of stomach of Herpestes in the Museum of the 
College of Surgeons. Herpestes, however, is a very large and varied 
genus *. 
In Crossarchus the stomach is short and globular, but the cardia 
is considerably prolonged. 
1 Hunter says (‘ Hssays and Observations,’ vol. ii. p. 66) of the Ichneumon :— 
‘“‘The stomach is almost a round cavity, the small end as thick and short as the 
large.” 
