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behind, and one between the two. The compartments are 

 separated by two transverse ridges of integument, extending 

 across the space between the lobes but with their summits below 

 the level of the anterior, posterior, and lateral walls of the space. 

 Into the bottom of each of these compartments the secretion of 

 the glands can be squeezed from a pair of laterally placed clusters 

 of minute orifices. Thus there are six centres from which the 

 liquid secretion exudes, three leading from the right and three 

 from the left gland. Longitudinal and vertical section of the 

 glandular area shows that the low partitions between the compart- 

 ments of the glandular space are formed by simple uprising folds 

 of the integument of its floor. Beneath the integument a narrow 

 strip of the gland stretches the whole length of the glandular 

 area ; beneath and in front of the gland is the penis ; behind 

 it the testis, and below the testis the anal gland with its orifice 

 just within the anus (text-fig. 5, A, B, 0) *. 



This is the condition of things in the males of the three species 

 mentioned above ; and the gland of a female Genet from Nairobi, 

 similar in colour and markings to the S. African G. rubiginosa, 

 resembled those of the males in being divided into three com- 

 partments and provided with three pairs of secreting areas, one 

 pair for each compartment ; and I do not doubt that the female 

 Mivart identified as G. tigrina was similarly provided. But in 

 a half-grown female of G. dongolana the gland is of a different 

 and simpler type. The median sulcus is Y-shaped as in the 

 male, but when the lobes are pulled apart, the space between 

 them is seen to be undivided, with a naked floor continuous in 

 front with the naked skin surrounding the vulva and limited 

 posteriorly by the preanal area of integument, which is covered 

 with short hair. Secretion under pressure can be squeezed from 

 the inner face of the glandular lobes, but there are no definite 

 and isolated paired secreting centres as in the male of this species 

 and of the others described. That the characters in which the 

 gland of this young female differ from those of the adult male 

 are not attributable to its immaturity, is shown by the occurrence 

 of a gland, similar to that of the adult male, in a young male 

 that came at the same time and from the same place as the 

 young female, but died two months before she did. The sexual 

 differences between these two in the structure of the glands was 

 very striking. 



Again, I have drawings and notes of the gland of an adult 

 female S. African Feline Genet (G.felina) that died as long ago 

 as June 1910. In all essential respects this gland appears to 

 have resembled that of the young female G. dovgolana, but the 

 glandular lobes were larger and the space between them deeper, 

 especially posteriorly. The hair lining the inner faces of the 

 lobes was stained with yellow secretion, which could be squeezed 



* The glands are well developed in the newly born young of Genets. In the male 

 G. pardina the gland resembles that of the adult ; in the female it is provided with 

 two pairs of secreting pouches (text-fig. 5, D, E). 



