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#439 (423). Scent-glands absent in both cf and 9 , vulva tolerably close to anus; 
feet digitigrade or subplantigrade, and hairy down to plantar pads, metatarsal 
pads reduced or absent and carpal pads or pad much smaller and narrower 
than plantar pad. See #440. 
#440 (440a 3o). Euplerinae Mivart, 1882, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, Feb. 7, 143.— 
Subplantigrade and fossorial. Hallux and poUex with large digital pads 
and close to 2d digit. Jaws feeble, long, slender; teeth degenerate, reduced 
in size, canines exceedingly small and premolars widely spaced. Alisphenoid 
canal absent; supracondyloid foramen present; bulla hardly everted pos- 
teriorly. Madagascar. See #441. 
■ #441. Eupleres Doyere, 1835, Bui. Soc. Sci. nat., France, no. 3, March, 45; no. 5, 
June, 103, mt. tod. goudotii; Ann. Sci. nat., Paris, 2d ser., v. 4, Nov., 280, mt. 
tod. goudotii, Madagascar. — Small-toothed mongooses. Toes 5 on each foot. 
Claws short, hooked. Hind soles hairy. Skull ventricose, very much pro- 
duced, slender, compressed; lower jaw compressed and produced in front; 
eyes large; ears large, triangular; nose and upper lip medianly grooved. 
Body vermiform. Tarsi elongate, hairy beneath; a very slender bald streak 
to the heel as in Genetta but not so distinct; toes ''apparently" united, with 
scattered hairs above, thumb very short; great toe short and high up; claws 
acute, "semiretractile." Incisors 6/6; canines (scarcely distinguishable from 
first 3 premolars) small, compressed; premolars 3, very small, compressed, 
far apart, the hinder with a small central internal lobe; carnassial triangular, 
about as long as wide, inner lobe central; molars trigonal, somewhat like 
carnassial. Madagascar. 
#441 Eupleres [or Viverra '] goudotii Doyere, 1835, Bui. Soc. Sci. nat., France, 
no. 5, June, 103; 1835, Ann. Sci. nat., Paris, 2d ser., v. 4, Nov., 280, pi. 18. 
Small-toothed mungoose. Madagascar. 
Trichodectes fl 100.— Ext. 
madagascariensis. — Madagascar *. — T. h. 
#443 (422). Circumanal sac present, scent-glands absent. See #443. 
#443 (445). CRYPTOPROCTiDAE Flower, 1869, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 37. — Claws 
retractile, sharp, compressed, very curved. Perineal scent-glands absent; 
capacious circumanal sac present; penis highly complex in structure, with 
large bone. A large supracondyloid foramen present; bulla not distinctly 
everted. Teeth 36: i. 3/3, c. 1/1, pm. 4/4, m. 1/1; jaws short; teeth sectorial, 
closely resembling those of felidae. See #444. 
#444. Cryptoprocta Bennett, 1833, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, v. 1 (4), May, 46, 
mt. tod. ferox— The fossa, Beutelfrett. Teeth 36: i. 3/3, c. 1/1, pm. 4/4, 
m. 1/1; 1st premolar of both jaws very minute and early deciduous; upper . 
carnassial has a very small inner anterior tubercle; true molar very small and 
placed transversely; lower carnassial with large trenchant bilobed blade, 
and a very minute talon, but no inner cusp. Head conical; whiskers rigid, 
very long; skull like Felis but proportionately longer and narrower; orbit 
fttlOa (440). Digitigrade. Hallux and pollex very short, with small digital pads and set well above 2nd 
digit; skull and teeth unmodified. See #4406. 
#4406 (c) . FOSSiNAE Pocock, 1929, Encycl. brit., 14th ed., v. 4, 898.— Civet-like animal. Feet with large 
digital pads, not imbedded in velvety hair; digitigrade; claws nonretractile or at most partially retractile, 
unguarded by lobes of skin; area between plantar and digital pads naked or mostly so; hallux high above 
plantar pad, with accessory pad close to it. Madagascar. Contains Fossa. 
Hide (6). PRiONODONTiNAE Gill, 1872a, 4.— Linsangs. Elegant genet-like animals. Feet with small 
digital pads, imbedded in velvety fur; digitigrade; claws completely retractile and probably guarded by 
skin-lobes; area between plantar and digital pads thickly hairy; hallux scarcely higher up than plantar pad, 
its accessory pad (hallucal lobe) close to or touching plantar pad. Penis small, close to scrotum. Southeastern 
Asia. Contains Prionodon (syn. Linsang) and Pardictis. Syn. linsakginae Pocock, 1915, Ann. Mag. 
Nat. Hist., 8th ser., v. 16 (94), Oct., 350. 
