NHW VIVKKHl.NK CAHMVORK. 491) 



to found the follt)\\iug genus for '■ IhiiiUjale'' hosei, wliicli J 

 liave long realized should be se[)arated tVoin the banded animals 

 foi'uiing the tine genus llemiijaJus. 



" DjPLOCiALK. 



-Thomas, Abstract P. Z. «. 1912, p. 18 (iMairh 2»i). 



'• Pattern of coloiation normal, not banded. 



"Hkull with })ar<'illel-Hided, sfjuare-fronted muzzle, the tooth- 

 I'ows nearly parallel. Septum between anterior palatine foi'aniina 

 without mesial foramen. Meatus and bulla- ;d)Out as in 

 HeDiiyalas. 



" Teeth : — Upper ineisors forming a straight transverse line, the 

 outer pair scarcely set back behind the level of the others. Middle 

 teeth (p'*, Hi') of the cheek-tooth series propoi'tionally small, 

 terminal ones (p', m") comparatively large. P' as long antero- 

 ])osteriorly as p', with two roots and both anterioi- and posterior 

 supplementary cusps. P" also with marked supjilementary cusps, 

 and a postero-internal basal cusp, this being quite absent in 

 Hem iyalus. 



'" Type, JJiploj/ale Jionei [Heinigale hvsel Thos.). Animal and 

 skull described a"n<l figured P. Z. H. 1892, p. 222, pis. xviii. & xix. 



" The different shape of the muzzle and palate, the double-rooted 

 p' and other difi'erences in the teeth, and the essential difference in 

 the pattern of coloration are the chief leasons for distin squishing 

 this genus from /Jetiii(/ali(.s. 



'• ( 'niiO'iocAL]:. 



"Thomas, Abstract P. Z. S. 1912, p. 17 (March 2(i). 



" Pattern of coloration as in HemUjaliis, not as in Diployale. 



"Skull — at least in the young — shaped more or less as in 

 Kvpleres, the muzzle long and slender and the pi'emaxillse drawn 

 out forwards, with an abnormally long gap l)etween the last 

 incisor and the canine. Median septal foramen between anterior 

 palatine foramina excessively long, as bi'oad as either of the lateral 

 foramina, and nearly twice their length. Auditory region with 

 the Vnill» small and nariow, and tlie meatus very large and open, 

 its diameter approximately equal to that of a cross-section of the 

 bulla itself. 



" Teeth (of a young specimen with the milk-teeth still in place). 

 — Upper incisors quite unique in shape among Carnivora, broad, 

 flattened, spatulate, with a straight cutting-edge, the edges of 

 the six combined forming neai'ly a half-circle, owing to the 

 position of i" partly behind the level of i\ and of i"' again qiiite 

 behind it — the general outline of the incisive dentition recalling 

 more that of some of the smallei' Kangaroos than that of a 

 Carnivore. P' small, single-rooted. Milk-premolars 2, 3, and 4 

 small and delicate, much smaller than the corresponding teeth of 

 Hemigalus and Dvplogale.i the proportions moi-e as in Eupleres, 

 Lower incisors again broadened terminally, spatulate, the thiid 

 with a broader blade than the other two. 



