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ox A NEW VIVERRIXE CARXIVORE. 



of brain-case 33'7 ; palatal length 46' 5 ; breadth ])et\veen outer 

 corners of mp"* 2r7 ; palatal foramina 7'2 ; median septal 

 foramen 11'6 ; horizontal length of mi' 2, mi^ 3, mi^ 3*3, mp" 4-6, 

 mp-'' 5-4, mp^ 3-9. 



Text-fie-. 63. 



B 



Cliroto(]ale owstoni. 

 A. Side view of skull. ] B. Front view of muzzle. 



'' Hah. Yen-bay, on the Song-koi River, Tonkin, 

 " Tij2ye. Young male. B.M. No. 12.4.21.3. Original number 11. 

 Collected 16 September, 1911, by Mr. Alan Owston's collector 

 Orii. 



" This remarkable animal would at first sight be regarded as 

 merely a local representative of the well-known Banded Civet 

 (ffemigalus harchoickei), but a study of its skull and dentition, 

 although only at present represented by a young specimen, shows 

 that it is a most peculiar form, parallel in some I'espects with the 

 anomalous genus Uaplere^^ while in others — notably in its almost 



