Marsh Collection, Peabody Museum. 



153 



ridge is very highly developed in the Binturong and less so 

 in Herpestes. The distal end is not preserved. 



The radius, figure 28, as compared with the ulna in size, 

 holds about the same relationship as that seen in the civets in 

 general. The head is cup-shaped and has an imperfectly cir- 

 cular outline, indicating thereby complete power of rotation. 



27 



!-r. 



y>m 



Figure 27. — Humerus of Oodectes herpestoides Wortman 

 Figure 28. — Radius of same species; front view. 

 Figure 29. — Ulna of same species; fionc view. 

 All figures are three halves natural size. (Type.) 



front view. 



The shaft is slightly curved, somewhat compressed, and dis- 

 tinctly trihedral in its lower fourth. The distal end is pro- 

 vided with a well-developed styloid, deep tendinal grooves, 

 and a well-excavated articular surface for the scaphoid and 

 lunar. 



