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kidney. The species Herpestes smithii shows the same bending of 
the colon over to the right side of the body. On the other hand, 
in Paradoxurus hermaphroditus the colon is short and quite 
straight, and there is no trace of a transverse colon, such as exists 
in the types already referred to. The cecum of this animal, in 
fact, lies pretty well in the middle of the body. In the closely- 
allied Paradoxurus niger the conditions are the same, and the 
cecum originates only just in front of the left kidney. Viverra 
civetta is also quite like Paradoxurus. Genetta rubiginosa has this 
Text-fig. 125. 
Caudate lobe of liver, duodenum, and adjacent structures in Galidia elegans. 
e. Colon. d. Duodenum, from which arises recto-duodenal ligament partly in- 
serted upon mesocolon and partly continuous with hepato-caval ligament as 
explained in text. AK. Right kidney. JZ. Caudate lobe of liver, from the 
lowermost process of which arises hepato-caval ligament. p.c. Postcaval 
vein. 
peculiarity exaggerated, for the cecum arises from the colon con- 
siderably behind the left kidney. While, therefore, these facts 
seem to justify the separation of Viverrines and Herpestines 
among the Viverride, they leave the affinities of the alleged sub- 
family G‘alidictine doubtful; and it is remarkable that while 
Galidictis is Viverrine in its scent-glands, it is Herpestine in its 
colon, while, on the other hand, Galidia is Hevpestine in the 
absence of scent-glands and Viverrine in the condition of the 
colon, which is perhaps what is to be expected in a subfamily 
