508 PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ZLUROIDEA. [June 6, 
In Prionodon 1 found the czecum to be very small and short, but 
strongly curved and acutely pointed. 
Hunter says (‘ Essays and Observations,’ vol. ii. p. 66) that in the 
Ichneumon there is no cecum. It is therefore perhaps occasionally 
Fig. 8. 
A. Csecum of Genetta. B. Czxeum of Prionodon. C. Cxceum of Galidia. 
D, Cxeum of Cynictis. 
absent in that large genus. In a spirit-specimen of erpestes, 
however, I found a long, slender and pointed caecum; while in the 
series of dried ceeca of Herpestes in the College of Surgeons some 
czca are rather long, while others are short. Specimens of Para- 
doxurus exhibit a similar range of variation from moderately long to 
short and rounded. 
In Suricata the ceecum is short, and shaped much as in the Cat. 
