412 ox EXTERXAL CHARACTEKS OF THE PARABOXURIN^. 



however, because the prepuce is close to the scrotum in the 

 Motigooses. 



The main features of the glands and external genitalia may 

 be systematically summarised as follows : — 



Males *. 



a. Glands paired, situated behind the prepuce, which lies far in 

 advance of the scrotum at the anterior end of the naked 

 glandular tract ; hence the labia of the gland when juxtaposed 

 meet behind the prepuce. Glans penis long or moderately 

 long, and spicular. 

 a'. Glans penis subcylindrical, long, richly spicular, and ter- 

 minated by a styliform process Paradoxurus. 



I'. Glans penis conical, shorter, spicular at base, and without 



styliform terminal process Arctictis. 



h. Glands unpaired, situated in front of the prepuce which is 

 close to the scrotum : hence the labia of the gland when 

 juxtaposed meet in front of the prepuce; glans penis quite 

 short and unarmed Nandinia. 



Females, 



a. Glands paired, behind and sometimes partially alongside the 

 vulva ; labia of the glands whert juxtaposed meeting behind 

 the clitoris and vulva; 



n'. Vulva in front of the ]arge naked glandular area Arctictis. 



b'. Vulva near the middle of the naked g'landular area, the 



secretory area extending behind and alongside the vulva ... Faradoxurus. 

 h. Glands unpaired, secreting area altogether in front of the 

 vulva ; labia of the glnndular area, when juxtaposed, meeting 

 in front of the vulva, 

 a^. Vulva situated at the posterior end of the naked glandular 

 tract which is bounded laterally and in front by up- 

 standing labia Arctogalidia. 



h-. Vulva separated from the naked glandular tract which has 



a pouch-like depression at its anterior end Nandinia. 



Considered collectively the glands of these genera differ from 

 those of the Yiverrinse in the following particulars : — In the 

 Viverrines the labia of the glands are hairy without and within 

 and form a pair of tumid masses usually closely juxtaposed or as 

 in Viverra zibetha, where they are divergent behind, confluent in 

 front behind the prepuce. In no case does the glandular area 

 extend in front of the prepuce or of the vulva, nor does it ever 

 form a flattened nailed area covered all over with secretory 

 oi'ifices. In the Paradoxurine genera, on the contrary, the labia, 

 when present as up.standing ridges, are naked within, like the 

 floor of the fossa between them. They are not closely applied 

 and can be so widely divaricated in both sexes that the secreting 

 surface, studded all over with pores, forms a flat or nearly flat 

 area. 



* The glands of this sex in Arctogalidia are unknown. 



