108 CARNIVORA. 
tendency. Huxley has indicated a strong resemblance between the 
skulls of some species of Cynodictis and certain existing American 
forms of Canis; and the close resemblance of the skeleton of Cyno- 
dictis to that of Amphicyon has been noticed by Filhol, who has also 
shown that in some of the larger forms the lower dentition is very 
like that of Amphicyon, which is again very like Cephalogale. The 
humerus of Oynodvetis (or, at all events, of most of the species) had 
an entepicondylar foramen, thereby differing from that of Canis, 
and agreeing with Viverra, Amphicyon, and Cephalogale. 
It thus appears that Cynodictis is an extremely generalized genus, 
connecting the Viverroids and the Canoids so intimately that it is 
almost impossible to say with which family it should be classed. 
Future discoveries will probably ere long render it impracticable to 
generically distinguish Herpestes, Amphictis, Cynodictis, and Canis 
from one another, or from the forms to which the names a 
cynodon and Cynodon have been applied. 
In quite another direction Filhol* has indicated that in those 
forms of Cynodictis in which the last lower molar is absent there is 
a complete passage through Stenoplesictis to Palwoprionodon (vide 
Ann. Soe. Sci. Phys. Nat. Toulouse, 1882, pp. 67-8); while from 
the former the transition to the musteline genus Plesictis is gradual, 
and the latter is but slightly removed from the feline Pseudelurus. 
Cynodictis lacustris, P. Gervais’. 
Syn. C. mungoides and C. antiqua, Bravard, MS. 
Hab. France. 
27572. Fragment of the left maxilla, containing m. 1, m.2, and a 
portion of pm. 4; from the Upper Eocene of Apt (Vaucluse), 
France. These teeth, although more perfect, appear to be 
indistinguishable from the corresponding type specimens 
figured by P. Gervais in the Zool. et Pal. Francaises, 2nd ed. 
pl. xxv. fig. 2; together with the next specimen, they are 
entered in Bravard’s MS. Catalogue in the Museum as 
C. mungoides, Bravard’. 
Bravard Collection. Purchased, 1852. 
27573. Portion of the left ramus of the mandible, containing the 
1 Ann. Sci. Géol. vol. viii. art. 1, p. 49, and Ann. Soc. Sci. Phys. Nat. 
Toulouse, op. cit. 
2 Zool. et Pal. Frangaises, 1st ed. vol. i. p. 183 (1848-52). The present ah 
is unacquainted with the date of publication of this portion of the work. 
This name, together with the names C. dubia (non Filhol), C. antiqua, 
and C. angustidens, occurs in some (apparently) unpublished plates of Bra- 
yard’s in the Museum, in which the specimens noticed above are figured. 

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