1143 
(i. 3/3, c. 1/1, pm. 4/4, m. 1/2); upper carnassial (which in both Indian and 
Burmese forms is much larger than the true molar behind it) with very large 
bicuspid inner tubercle and a very small pointed cusp at the anterior ex- 
tremity; lower carnassial with a heel (talon) about one-third as long as the 
tooth; molar broader than long, outer margin slightly indented, crown with 
several small cusps. Skull with the nasal portion rather narrow, palate ex- 
tending backwards to about halfway between hindmost molars and glenoid 
fossa; infraorbital foramen large. Vertebrae: C. 7, D. 14, L. 6, S. 4, Cd. ?. 
Shorter legs and longer bodies than badgers, but are allied to latter and not to 
Gulo or any other genus of mustelinae, so that it is incorrect to call them 
wolverines as Jerdon and others have done; Blyth's term Brockweasel is 
better, but animal is not a weasel. Eastern Asia. 
Syns.: Helictes" Gray, 1847, List Osteol. Spec. Brit. Mus., pp. x, 20; 
Melogale ^ Geoffr., 1834, Voy. Indes-Orient., Zool., Paris, 129-137, mt. 
personata Geoffr., 1834, 
#506 Helictis everetti Thomas, 1895, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, v. 15, 331. 
Mount Kina Balu N. Borneo. 
Neotrichodectes <tl099.— Ext. 
[mephitidis ^ Osborn. — Borneo.] 
#507 (504) . Cavity of bulla, when divided, separated into an anterior larger and a 
posterior smaller chamber by a transverse partition running from stylo- 
mastoid to foramen lacerum posticum. See #508. 
#508 (516). Walls of bulla everywhere thick and permeated with air cells con- 
tinuous with those of mastoid, cells of which may communicate with cavity 
of bulla. See #509. 
#509. Mustelinae Swainson, 1835, Nat. Hist. Class. Quad., pp. vii, 362. — 
Stoats, weasels, and polecats. Weasel-like. Skull with long cranial and short 
facial portions; teeth sectorial, talon of upper carnassial small, anterior; 
molar much wider than long; lower carnassial with cuspidate heel, metaconid 
present or absent; pm. 1 absent above and below; tympanic annulus in 
contact with roof of bulla; palatine foramina maxillary; rhinarium small; 
bursa of ear marginal, large or moderately so. Feet cursorial, usually hairy 
below, no metatarsal pad; other pads moderate or small, coarsely striate; 
claws short, compressed, acute, curved; digits webbed to proximal end of 
pads, the second, third, and fourth widely separable. Baculum with narrow, 
long, deep groove in its distal third beneath, ending in a median rounded 
apex. Northern hemisphere, south into northern Africa, Malay Archipelago, 
and northern and western S. America; in Europe west to Ireland. See #510. 
#510 (511). Vormela Blasius, 1884, Bericht naturforsch. Gesellsch. Bamberg, 
V. 13, 9-10, 14, mt. tod. sarmatica Pallas so. (tsd. 1912) peregusna Guelden- 
staedt. — Tiger polecats, Tigeriltisse. Lower carnassial with evident though 
small metaconid; hamular in contact with bulla. Back and sides spotted and 
striped. Skull narrow, somewhat flattened (depth of brain-case a little more 
than half mastoid breadth), dorsal profile slightly arched posteriorly, rather 
strongly bent down from orbital region forward, zygomatic arches not 
specially widened, and postorbital region not unusually narrowed (distance 
from point of greatest narrowing to zygoma less than breadth of postorbital 
constriction) ; rostrum rather short and broad, its width about equal to that 
of interorbital constriction, the distance from anterior rim of orbit to gnathion 
equal to one-half length of brain-case; auditory bulla moderately inflated, 
oval or subtriangular in outline, the meatus with a tubular rim, anterior 
extremity of bulla in contact with hamular and nearly or quite reaching 
