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The lumbar veins were in some respects like those of Galidiu, 
and in other respects differed. They resemble those of Galidia 
in the fact that there are two veins on each side, and that while 
those of the left side open separately into the postcaval those 
of the right side join before doing so. There is, however, this 
important difference between the two animals in respect of these 
veins. In Herpestes the postcaval has already divided into the 
two iliacs, into each of which therefore the lumbars really open. 
In Galidia the vein is a single vein at the points of entry of the 
lumbars, and does not divide until later. It shouid also be 
mentioned that the renals are asymmetrical with the asymmetry 
of Galidia. With this is associated the separate entry into 
the postcaval of the left suprarenal already mentioned. I say 
“associated,” since in one specimen of Crossarchus where the 
left renal and the left suprarenal entered the postcaval sepa- 
rately, there was an asymmetry between the two renals; whereas 
in a second example, where the left renal and suprarenal entered 
the postcaval together, it was at a point exactly opposite to the 
entrance of the right renal. 
I have also collected some notes on Viverrine luroids, and 
have already figured in Genetta vulgaris * the veins with which 
IT am now dealing. In Paradoxurus hermaphroditus the two 
renal veins were asymmetrical, the right entering the postcaval 
above the left. The spermatic veins showed an exaggeration of 
the condition described above in Suricata. The left spermatic 
vein as usual enters the left renal; the right spermatic vein, as 
is also quite usual with Carnivora, enters the postcaval directly 
but very far forward—on a level, in fact, with the entrance 
of the left renal. The two lumbar veins are, as in Genetta 
vulgaris, single veins on each side. They enter the postcaval 
asymmetrically, and are asymmetrical in two ways. In the 
first place, the left vein enters rather more anteriorly than 
the right. In the second place, the right vein enters the post- 
caval after it has bifurcated to form the iliacs. The left vein 
enters the postcaval in its undivided region. It is to be noted 
that the corresponding arteries are also correspondingly asym- 
metrical in the position of their exits from the aorta. I found 
two examples of the African Civet Cat (Viverra civetta), both of 
them males, to differ slightly im the branches of the post- 
caval. In one the veins were exactly as I have described them 
in Paradoxurus hermaphroditus, except that the lumbars were 
quite symmetrical in position and that they both entered the 
postcaval before its bifurcation. In the other the right spermatic 
vein entered the postcaval some way behind the renals, and the 
lumbars, though symmetrical, were two on each side. 
Of Nandinia binotata (text-fig. 129 B, p. 486) I have examined 
some of the ves with which I am concerned in the present 
communication in two individuals, both males. In one of these the 
* P.Z.S. 1907, p. 812, text-fig. 214, 
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