Di-. Eiiiar Lo 



nnl)er2,"- 



■yuies on Arctonyx. 



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disk containing the nostrils heino" much like tliat of a pig" — 

 appears to be very suitable for this species as well. This 

 organ is thus rather different from that of Meles, as also is 

 proved by the accompanying tigures (Hgs. 1 and 2), which 

 have been drawn from the present specimen*. The upper side 

 of the snout behind the rim of the disk is more broadly 

 naked than in Meles. The upper lip below the disk i-, 

 although sharply defined from the same, almost naked, only 

 beset with a few scattered short and coarse hairs. 



The facial vibrissDe appear to be rather reduced in number. 

 T cainiot see but two above the eye, and on the checks only 

 one corresponding to the lower genal tuft. 



Fi^. 3. 



Fig. 3. — Left fore foot oi Arctonyx, sliowiug arrangemeDt of pads 

 Fig. 4. — Left hind foot of Arctonyx, ,, „ „ 



The fore feet of Arctonyx (fig. 3) are, of course, fossorial, 

 with big chwvs, but their structure differs evidently from that 

 of the genera Meles, Taxidea, and Mellivoixc, as those are 

 described by Pocock (1920). The digits are connected about 

 to the middle of the digital pads. The pollex is set further 

 up the foot than the other digits, -which are almost on a level 

 with each other, but the former is as closely connected to the 

 side of the foot as the others hiter se. The digital pads are 

 well defined, and the space between them and the plantar 



* The median groove at the lower side of the rhlnarial disk onigJit be 

 an artefact produced by the drying of the skin. 



