478 MR. F. E, BEDDARD ON THE STRUCTURE [Apr. 27, 
sides of the jaw. The species therefore obviously varies in this 
peculiarity. There is, moreover, a considerable diastema between 
the canine and pm. 2, so that asmall pm. 1 which has not emerged 
may be present in the jaw. 
The ridges of the palate in Galidia elegans are reproduced in 
the accompanying figure (text-fig. 123). There are six complete 
semicircular ridges perfectly symmetrical, of which the first is not 
so extensive laterally as the rest. This runs across between the 
Text-fig. 123, 
Palate of Galidia elegans. 
two canines. The next ridge corresponds to the diastema, and 
the remaining four to the three premolars. Thereafter follow 
four half-ridges on each side, but the details will be best under- 
stood by a reference to the figure referred to. 
The tongue has been already partly described by Mivart *, who 
has recorded a well-defined patch of spiny papillee upon the middle 
of the anterior half of that organ. This, as I have already pointed 
out, is exactly what is to be found in Galidictis. There is, how- 
ever, no further description of that organ, which I show in the 
accompanying drawing (text-fig. 124). 
* P.Z.S. 1882, p. 498. 
