168 HEBPBSIID^. 



as massive as, and agreeing very generally in proportion of parts and 

 position or form of the internal lobes with, those of A.paludosus ; but 

 they are rather slender and longer comparatively in all their parts. 

 The palate also is much narrower and longer. The third upper false 

 molar has a small central internal lobe. The front edge of the flesh- 

 tooth is fuUy two-thirds the length of the outer edge ; the hinder 

 lobe of it is narrow, and angular behind. The front tubercular 

 molar has a very oblique outer edge. The brain-case is rather more 

 than half the entire length. 



The length of the skull 3| inches ; the width of the brain-case 

 1^ inch, of the zygomatic arch 2| inches. 



The lower jaw broad in front, narrow behind, without any tu- 

 bercles on the lower edge under the end of the tooth-line. False 

 grinders 4.4; the front very small, curved, close at the front of the 

 second. The tubercular grinder very large, oblong, subcircular, with 

 two large unequal tubercles on the front and a very large one on the 

 hinder part of the crown. 



^The lower jaw is distinguished from that of the genus Serpestes 

 by having no prominence or tubercle on the lower edge under the 

 hinder end of the tooth-line, 



12. ONTCHOGALE. 



Body slender. Tail conical, hairy, about as long as the body. 

 Toes 5.5; inner toes small ; front claws very long, compressed, 

 curved. Teeth 40 ; false grinders f . f . 



Onychogale, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 570. 



The hinder end of the skull deeply and sharply notched, instead 

 of being transversely truncated as in the small Serpestes. The 

 notch in the living animal is filled up with a cartilaginous septum. 



Onychogale Maccarthise. B.M. 



Ked-brown ; hair elongate, flaccid, pale brown, with a broad, thick, 

 Bubterminal band and a long whitish-brown tip ; fur of hands and 

 face shorter. Feet blackish brown ; hair white-tipped. Tail redder ; 

 hair elongate, red, one-coloured. Ears rounded, hairy. 



Herpestes Maccarthise, Orai/, B. M. ; Gerrard, Cat. of Bones B. M. 



p. 75. 

 Cynictis Maccarthise, Cfray, P. Z. S. 1861, p. LSI, Mamm. pi. 31 ; 



Ann. §■ Mag. N. H. 1853, xii. p. 47. 

 Herpestes fulvescens, Kelaart, Ceylon. 

 Onychogale Maccarthise, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 670. 



Hab. Ceylon (Lady MaceartJiy). 



13. HELOGALE. 



Body slender. Head oval. Ears distant. Toes 5.5; the inner 

 toe small ; front claws rather elongate, compressed, acute. Soles of 

 the hind feet partly bald. Tail conical, covered with elongate hairs. 



