3. cuoN. 183 



Canis tricolor, Griffith, A. K. v. p. 288, t. 



Canis pictus, Desm. Mamm. Suppl. p. 888: Blainv. OsUogr. t. 8 



(skum, t. 9 (teetli). 

 Var. ? Canis pictus, Cretsch. in RiippeU's Atlas, p. 35, 1. 12. 



Hal. Africa : Cape of Good Hope (Burehell) (called " Mebbia ") ; 

 East Africa, Cordofan (Biippell) (called "Simir"). 



Subfam. II. CANINA. 



Head more or less elongate; nose tapering. Teeth moderate. 

 Palate elongate. 



Canina, Gray, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 497. 



A. Wolves. Tail short, straight, bushy, not reaching hdow the heel. 



* Head short. Skull elongate. Teeth 38 ; tiAercular grinders | . |, 



rarely t • f <"■ i ■ i- 



2. ICTICYON. 



Head short, broad. Teeth 38 ; false grinders 3 . 3 in each jaw ; 

 flesh- teeth large, three-lobed ; upper with a small internal lobe on 

 the front edge ; the lower sharp-edged ; tubercular grinders \.\; 

 upper large, triangular, transverse; lower small, circular; false 

 grinders f . f . 



Icticyon, htmd, 1842; Burmeister, Fauna Bras. ii. p. 1; Gray, 



P. Z. S. 1868, p. 497. 

 Cynalycus, Gray, Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. 1846, xvii. p. 293. 

 Melictes, Schinz, 1849. 



Icticyon venaticus. B.M. 



Icticyon venaticus, Lund, Fauna Bras. p. 184; Wagner, Wiegm. 



Arch. 1843, p. 355 ; Burmeister, Fauna Bras. i. 1. 18-20 ; Gerrard, 



Cat. of Banes of Mamm. p. 89; Van der Hoeven, Kais. AJi. d. Wiss. 



vii. ; Gray, P. Z. 8. 1868, p. 498. 

 Cynalycus melanogaster, Gray, Ann. 8f Mag. N. H. 1846, xvii. p. 293 ; 



Wiegm. Arch. 1847, p. 15. (B.M.) 

 Cynogale venatica, Lund, K. D. V. Selsk. 1842. 

 Melictis Beskii, Schinz, Wiegm. Arch. 1849, p. 10. 

 Canis brachyotus, Blainv. OsUogr. t. 9 (skuU^, 1. 12 (teeth). 



Uah. Brazil. 



** Teeth 40 ,■ tubei-cular grinders f . f . Temporal muscles separated by 

 a narrow cranial ridge. 



3. CUON. 



Skull short ; nasals elongate. Teeth 40 ; tubercular grinders f . ^-, 

 the lower hinder tubercular grinder defltient. — Blainv. Ann, Fran^. 

 et Etrang. d'Anat. i. t. 8. f. 4. 



