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a naked fossa wliich becomes gradually shallower towards the 

 penis. There is no definite collar of skin round the prepuce but 

 integument, resembling that of the free edge of the labia in 

 being scantily covered with yellow hair, encircles that organ. 

 The posterior end of the fossa is partially divided by a low 

 membi'anous partition when the labia are not widely divaricated. 



The penis, which I omitted to examine, was described by 

 Garrod as follows : " The glans penis is conical and pointed, 

 f inch long, and presents round its base several small, dark brown, 

 hard flattened papillae about yV inch long." From this it may 

 be infeired that the glans is shorter than in Faradoxurus, has 

 no styliform termination, and is further distinguished by the 

 I'estriction of the papillpe to its base, their smaller nvimber and 

 flattened, unspine-like shape. 



The gland of the female does not appear to have been described. 

 It is \evy like that of the male, consisting of a small longi- 

 tudinal fossa, with an upstanding labium, hairy witliout and 

 naked within, on each side of it. As in the male and in 

 Fctradoxurus, these labia, which converge anteriorly and poste- 

 riorly, are capable of being widely divaiicated, but they are not 

 tightly juxtaposed as is the case with the homologous labia of 

 Viverricida, Genetia, etc. When only partially divaiicated, the 

 floor of the fossa rises into a low median ridge of skin. The 

 vulva is situated in front of the glandular area, not near its 

 centre as in Paradoxurus. The glandular area is thus wholly 

 perineal as in the Yiverrines. 



The Perfume-gland and External Genitalia 0/ Arctogalidia. 



The gland in this genus does not appear to have been described. 

 Temminck and S. Mliller, as Mivart stated, are silent about it. 

 Hence Mivart presumed the gland to be as in ParadoxiLras 

 (P. Z. S. 1882, p. 165). On the otker hand Blanford (Mamm. 

 Brit. India, p. 115, 1888) said : "there is no bald space in front 

 of the scrotum or around the genital orifice ; hence it is probable 

 tha,t the prescrotal glands, if they exist, are ill developed." 

 What material Blanford had whereon to base this opinion 

 does not appear ; but the concluding sentence of the quotation 

 suggests that the result of his examination, presumably of dried 

 skins, was unsatisfactory. At all events his remarks do not 

 justify Lydekkei''s statement that "there is no glandular tract 

 in front of the scrotum" (Lloyd's Nat. Hist. : Cats. etc. p. 230, 

 1896). 



I can say nothing about the glaiid in the male, but a female 

 example identified as A. lexicotis, from Sarawak, has a distinct 

 though small naked glandular tract in front of the vulva ; or 

 rather, since the naked integument narrowly encircles the vulva 

 behind, that orifice, preceded by a well-developed clitoris, may be 

 described as situated at the posterior end of the glandular area. 

 The area itself is antero -posteriorly elongated and is surrounded 



