338 CARNIVORA 
olscurus, the Kusimanse, a small burrowing animal from West 
Africa, of uniform dark brown colour; (\ fasciatus ; C. zebra ; and 
C. gambianus. 
Suricata..—A more distinct genus than any of the above. The 
dental formula as in the last, but the teeth of the cheek-series 
remarkably short in the antero-posterior direction, corresponding 
with the shortness of the skull generally (Fig. 222). Orbits 
complete behind. Vertebre: C 7,D 15,L 6,8 3,C 20. Though 
the head is short and broad, the nose is pointed and rather 
produced and movable. Ears very short. Body shorter and 
limbs longer than in Herpestes. Toes 44, the pollex and hallux 
being absent. Claws on fore feet very long and narrow, arched, 
pointed, and subequal. Hind feet with much shorter claws, soles 
hairy. Tail rather shorter than the body. One species only is 
known, the Suricate, S. fetradactyla, a small gray-brown animal, 
with dark transverse stripes on the hinder part of the back, from 
South Africa. The cecum is short. 
Galidictis? Galidea,? and Hemigalidea* are names of three slight 
generic modifications of the Viverrine type, 
allied to the Herpestine, but placed by 
Mivart in a distinct subfamily, Galidictiin. 
They are all characterised by the absence 
of the alisphenoid canal in the skull, as 
well as of the entepicondylar foramen to 
the humerus ; and are inhabitants of Mada- 
gascar. The best known, Gualidea elegans, 
is a lively Squirrel-like little animal with 
soft fur and a long bushy tail, which climbs 
and jumps with agility. It is of a chestnut- 
brown colour, the tail being annulated with 
darker brown. The cecum (Fig. 242) is 
remarkable for its comparative length and 
pointed termination. Hemigalidea is dis- 
gee er tinguished by the absence of rings on the 
Geiahee Ew Wess ene, tail. Galidictis vittata and striata chiefly 
Zool. Sec, 1882, p. 308.) differ from the Ichneumons in their colora- 
tion, being gray with parallel longitudinal 
stripes of dark brown. 
Eupleres® is another form, also from Madagascar, which has 
been placed in a subfamily apart. It differs remarkably from all 
the other Vivcrride in the weak development of the jaws and the 
? Desmarest, ‘‘Tabl. Méth. Mamm.” in Nour. Dict. @'Hist. Nat, vol. xxiv. 
(sod, ° Geoffroy, Comptes Rendus, 1837, p. 578, 
3 Geoffroy, Mag. de Zool. 1839, pp. 27, 37. 
* Doyere, dan. Sei. Nat. vol. iv. p. 281 (1835), 
° Jourdan, Comptes Rendus, 1837, p. 422. Amended. 
