1. LTCAOJf. 181 



The subfamilies may be thus arranged : — 



J „ . (' 1. Lycaonina 1 



1. tokull solid; poatorbital 2. Caniha- iTail short, straight, bushy. 



process thiot, convex-) WoItcs J 



above. Ldpinjb | Caninia (Dogs) Tail elongate, curled to the left. 



(, Pox-tailed Wolves... Tail elongate, straight. 



1. Poxes Tail elongate, soft, bushy. 



2. Bristle-tailed Poxes'. Tail elongate, bristly, bushy. 



3. Kaoooon Dog Tail short, straight, bushy. 



II. SkuU thin; postorbital 

 process thin, concave 

 above. Vulpin^b 



Section I. Lupine. SkuU thick, solid; postorbital process thick, convex 

 above, and bent down at the end. 



Litpinse, part., Burmeister and Spencer Baird; Gray, P. Z. S. 1868, 

 p. 495. 



Subfam. I. LYCAONINA. 



Head short, broad ; nose short, broad. Teeth large, close toge- 

 ther. Palate very broad, short. 



Lycaonina, Cfray, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 495. 



1. LYCAON. (Hy^naDog.) 



Skull short, broad ; nose short, broad, swoUen ; palate short, very 

 broad; internal nasal opening broad. Postorbital process thick, 

 convex above, bent down at the end. Teeth 42 ; false grinders %.\; 

 sectorial \.\; molars f . f ; the upper and lower premolars acutely 

 dentated on the front and, especially, on the hinder edge ; upper 

 sectorial teeth strong, elongate, trigonal, broad, with a small but 

 well-marked interior lobe in front. Pirst upper tubercular tooth 

 large, with a broad rounded internal lobe ; the second upper tuber- 

 cular oblong transverse, much smaller ; lower hinder tubercular very 

 small, cylindrical. 



Lyoaon, Brooks; Gray, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 495. 



This group is intermediate between the Hysena and the Dog. 

 The manner of copulation is said to be different from the Bog's, and 

 similar to that of the Hyaena. 



Lycaon venaticus. (Simir or Mebbia.) B.M. 



Kynos pictus, Ruppell. 



Lycaon tricolor. Brooks. 



Lycaon typicus, A. Smith. 



Lycaon venaticus. Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. p. 67 ; P. Z. S. 1868, 



p. 497 ; Gerrard, Cat. of Bones in B. M. p. 90. 

 Canis aureus, Thunberg, MAn. Acad. P^tersb. iii. p. 302. 

 Hysena picta, Temm. Ann. G6n,. Sci, Phys. iii. p. 54, t. 35 ; Kuhl, 



Beitr. p. 75. 

 Hysena venatica, Burch. Travels, i. p. 456, fig., ii. pp. 222, 232. 

 Chien hy^noide, Ct(.v. Oss. Foss. iv. p. 886. 

 Hysena Dog, Griffith, A. K. 



