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Viverricula malaccensis : — Three papillae in a triangle. 

 Genetta felina : — Four papillae in a V. 

 ,, parclina : — ,, ;, ,, 



,, tigrina : — Two papillae on the right side and one on 

 the left. 

 Hemigale hardwicMi : — Three papillae in a triangle. 



„ „ :— Four „ „ V. 



Paradoxurus larvatus : — Three ,, ,, triangle. 



,, herinaphroditus : — Three papillas in a triangle. 



,, typus : — Five papillae in a V. 



Mu7igos mungo, M. ichneumon (several examples of each 



species) : — Thi'ee papillae in a triangle. 

 Atilax paludinosus : — A pair of papillae. 



Nandinia binotata, Suricata tetradactyla^ Galidia elegans : — 

 Three papillae in a triangle in several examples of each 

 species. 

 Arctictis binturong : — Eighteen papillae in a double V (text- 

 fig. 15 A). 

 Cynictis penicillata : — Three papillae in a triangle. 

 Crossarchus obsGurus : — ,, „ ,, ,, 



Family Hy^nid^. 



HycBnco striata : — A pair of papillae (text-fig. 21). 



,, ,, : — Two pairs of papillae. 



H. crociota : — A pair of papillae. 



Family PROTELiDiE. 

 Proteles cristatus: — A pair of papillae (text-fig. 21). 



Fungiform Papillce : — These are numerous or scanty in the 

 vEluroidea ; and in some tongues they are well represented, but 

 indistinct. They may stretch right across the dorsum, or they 

 may be absent from the centre, thereby forming a dorsal bound- 

 ing zone. They are numerous, scanty or absent on the ventral 

 papillary zone. They have tlie usual arrangement in clusters 

 and rows of varying degrees of obliquity. They are hemispherical 

 or pedunculated, and the surfaces are smooth or granular. 



Their distribution on the oral part of the dorsum is determined 

 by the presence or absence, and characters, of the patch of papillae 

 spinosiB. As a rule ihey are absent from the latter, but some 

 are present on it in F. caracal (text-fig. 20). 



In raany Oarnivora lateral organs are absent, and it is probable 

 that fungiform papillae lying on the postero-lateral parts of the 

 dorsum replace them. This has been definitely proved to be the 

 case in Fells domestica. And it is shown below that club-shaped 

 fungiform papillae with well-marked taste-buds lie in the position 

 of lateral organs in some Felidse. 



In the Feiidae there may be many fungiform papillae just behind 

 the apex, but they are never as large and prominent as those in 



