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developed in the matter of thickness, but are covered witli smootli 

 integument, and the four lobes of the plantar pad are separated 

 by shallow grooves and are therefore somewhat ill-defined. Tlie 

 area between the digital and plantar pads is quite hairless and 

 the edge of the webbing between the 1st and 2nd, 2nd and 3rd, 

 and 4th and 5th digits, and to a less degree that between the 3rd 

 and 4th digits, is more deeply emarginate than in ParadoxuriijS. 

 The anterior and lateral borders of the plantar pad form a 

 narrower curve than in that genvis, the pollical lobe especially 

 being set farther back Avith reference to the median lobe. The 

 carpal pads are much longer and narrower, but are as wide 

 throughout as the plantar pad. The claws are short and strongly 

 curved and not protected by skin-lobes. 



The hind foot differs from that of Paradoxurus in chara,cters 

 similar to those mentioned in connection with the fore foot, but 

 one additional difference to be noticed is that the pads of the 3rd 

 and 4th digits are not fused but are separated by a measurable 

 extent of webbing. The naked area on the metatarsus is of about 

 the same extent as in Paradoxurtis, the heel being thickly hairy 

 as in that genus ; and in the skins exan)ined the ai-ea between 

 the two smooth lateral ridges, or metatarsal pads, is covered with 

 coarsely squamous integument, the pads themselves, like the 

 plantar and digital pads, being smooth as in the fore foot. 



The Feet o/Nandinia. 



The feet of this genus have only been briefly described pre- 

 viously, so far as I have ascertained. Mivart (P. Z. S. 1882, 

 p. 170) says that the tarsus and metatarsus are " about as bald as 

 in Paradoxurus,'^ which is true ; but Lydekker's statement that 

 the tarsus is partially bald as in Hemigalus is not in accord with 

 the facts (Lloyd's Nat. Hist, : Cats etc., p. 228, 1896). 



The fore foot resembles that of Paradoxurus larvatus in the 

 development of the webs at least to the proximal ends of the 

 digital pads, in the extent to which the toes are capable of 

 separation, and in the confluence of the plantar and carpal pads 

 to form a single mass, of which the component elements are 

 defined mei-ely by grooves. These pads, however, are longer as 

 compared with their width than in Par<idoxiirus , and in the moi'e 

 backward position of the pollical lobe and the closer curvature of 

 the distal margin of the plantar pad i-esemblance may be seen to 

 Ai-ctogalidia. A very nai-row area of skin, sometimes giving ofi' 

 short streaks towards the digital pads of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 

 5th digits, is naked, but otherwise the whole of the area between 

 the plantar and digital pads is thickly covered with velvety hair 

 as in Genetta and Viverra. In this respect the feet difler from 

 those of Paradoxurus *, Arctictis, and Arctogalidia. The underside 

 of the pollex is, moreover, quite naked, the digital pad of this 



* Hodgson, however, described tliis area in Paradoxurus lanigerits as hairy ; but 

 whether the hai'- was developed to the extent seen in Nandlnia or in Paradoxurus 

 larvatus does not appear. 



