CEKCOLEPTIDiB. 245 



Fam. 4. CERCOLEPTIDtE. 



Tail elongate, suboylindrical, covered with shortish, hairs, pre- 

 hensile. Soles of the feet bald. 



Cercoleptina, Ch-aij, Cat. Mamm. B. M. ; P. Z. S. 1864, p. 706. 



CERCOLEPTES. 



Head rounded. Nose short, acuminated. Ears oblong. Toes 5.5. 

 Soles naked. Claws short, sharp. Tail elongate, hairy, prehensile. 

 Teats two, ventral. 



Skull ovate. Kose short, shelving. Eorehead arched. Teeth : — 

 cutting |, regular, lower rather shelving out ; canines grooved ; 

 giinders ^ . |-, two front conical, third like flesh-tooth ; tubercular 

 ovate, flat. The lower jaw thick, with a well-developed inferior 

 angle. Brain ovate ; case ventricose. Orbit incomplete ; suborbital 

 foramen large, single. Chin long, weU marked. 



Cercoleptes, Illiffer ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 706. 

 Kinkajou, Lac^hde. 

 Potos, Cuvier. 

 Caudivolvulus, Desm. 



Professor Owen has published some notes on the anatomy (see 

 P. Z. S. 1835, p. 119). 



Cercoleptes caudivolvulus. B.M. 



Fulvous. 



Viven'a caudivolvulus, PdUas, in Schreb. Sdugeth. p. 453, t. 125 B. 



TJrsus caudivolvulus, Cuv. Tab. EUm. p. 113, 1798. 



Potos caudivolvulus, Geoff. Mms. Paris; Desm. Mamm. p. 171. 



Caudivolvulus flavus, Tiedem. 2!ool. i. p. 381. 



Cercoleptes megalotus, Martin, P. Z. 8. 1836, p. 83 ; Schinz, S. M. 



p. 311. 

 Cercoleptes brachyotus, Martin, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 83 ; Schinz, S. M. 



p. 311. 

 Cercoleptes caudivolvulus, Illiger, Prod. p. 127 ; Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 



p. 150; Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. Jf.p. 76; P. Z. S. 1848, p. 76. 

 Lemur flavus, Schreb. Sdugeth. p. 145, t. 42 (fig. Penre.) ; I)e Blainv. 



Ostiogr. Subursi, t. 5 (skeleton), t. 7 (skull). 

 ? Lemur bicolor, Perm. ; Miller, Cim. Phys. t. (badly coloured). 

 Yellow Maucacoco; Perm. Syn. p. 138, t. 16. f. 2. 

 Potto, Vosmaer, Deserip. Amsterd. 177l, t. 

 Poto, Buffcm, H. N., ed. AUam. Stippl. iv. p. 160, t. 66; Curier, 



Bkgne Aniin. i. p. l44. 

 Kinkajou, Bvffon, H. N. Svppl. ill. p. 245, t. 60, 51. 

 Prehensile Weasel, Shaw, Zbol. i. p. 403. 



The two species described by Mr. Martin only depended on the 

 artifice of the preserver. 



Skull — length 3 Jj inches; breadth 2 inches, of brain-case l^inch; 

 length of palate 1| inch ; breadth of nose -ff inch, of palate 8|- lines; 

 length of, tooth-line 1 inch, of lower jaw 2. inches. 



