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runs backwards on each side a narrow strip of naked or nearly 

 naked skin, the two uniting posteriorly just in front of the carpal 

 pad and anteriorly just behind the plantar pad. They circum- 

 scribe a large, subovate area thickly covered with hair, and 

 corresponding to the hairy area behind the plantar pad in 

 V. zibetha. 



Text-fio-yire 2. 



A. Inferior view of left fore foot of Cioettictis civetta. [Sometimes the carpal pad 

 is more distinctly cleft and the strips of naked skin running forwards from it 

 may be overgrown with hair proximally.] 



13. Inferior view of left hind foot of the same. [Sometimes the metatarsal pad is 

 cleft by a line of hair.] 



C. External view of left fore foot of the same. 



The carpal pad is large, transverse, and markedly bilobed. The 

 two lobes, both rounded or subovate, are separated by a depres- 

 sion, the outer or ulnar lobe being about twice as large as the 

 inner or radial lobe. Behind them there is a small pointed area 

 of naked skin. 



