• INDICATION OF A NEW GENUS OF CARNIVORA. 



under the tail ; and they exhibit at either end a muscular ring. The walls 

 of the glands are about ^ inch thick, and purely glandular ; and their lining 

 membrane lies closely in contact with the walls and is secretory throughout. 

 But no pores can be traced on this lining for exuding the secretion which 

 yet is contained in the cavity of the glands whence it passes by the tubes 

 and anal pores into the rectum. The secretion found in the dead subject 

 was dark, thick^ and very foetid. 



Nepal, February , 1836. 



