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MR. F. E. BEDDARD ON THE 



[Nov. 12, 



thus rendered evident. In the Oarnivora generally there are two 

 prolonged cornua uteri and a median corpus uteri, part of which 

 is divided by an internal septum. In Herpestes fulvescens, for 

 exa.mple, and Cercoleptes caudivolvulus this is the case — which 

 species I have dissected for the purposes of a comparison with 

 Galidictis. It will be noticed that the remains of an interuterine 

 mesentery is to be seen at the point where the two uteri diverge. 

 The accompanying illustration shows also the comparative short- 

 ness of the divergent region of the uteri. In Herpestes fulvescens 

 the cornua are much longer in proportion. 



The ovaries of Galidictis are not enclosed in capsules as they 

 are in many, if not all, of the Arctoidea. In this Galidictis agrees 

 with other ^luroidea, e. g. Herpestes fulvescens. 



§ Brain. 



I have had the brain of this Carnivore figured in two aspects, 

 which are reproduced in the accompanying figures (text fig. 216). 



Text-fig. 216. 



Dorsal (left-hand figure) and Lateral (right-hand figure) views of Brain of 

 Galidictis striata. 



A. Crucial sulcus. B. Lateral sulcus. C. Suprasylvian sulcus. 

 D. Sylvian. E. Postsylvian. 



Viewed from above, the brain is seen to contrast with that'of 

 Viverra civetta * by reason of the large size of its crucial sulcus 

 and the total absence of any precrucial sulcus, present in the 

 Civet and forming in that Carnivoi-ean " Ursine lozenge," f which 

 also exists, according to Dr. Elliot Smith, in other ^luroids, e g. 

 Felis leo %. There is certainly no trace of this in Galidictis. In 



* Cat. Mus. Roy. Coll. Surgeons, vol. ii. ed. 2, 1902, p. 249, fig. 122. 



t Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vol. xix. 1886. 



X Cat. Mus. Roy. Coll. Surgeons, p. 247, fig. 119. 



