INDIAN TERTIARY & POST-TERTIARY VERTEBRATA. 
SIWALIK AND NARBADA CARNIVORA. 
By R. LYDEKKER, B.A., F.G.S., F.Z.S. 
(WITH PLATES XXYI. to XLY.) 
Order: CARNIVORA. 
Family 1.-EIUSTELID2E. 
The family Musteliclce , comprehending the weasels, badgers, and otters, 
constitutes “ a large, widely diffused, and somewhat disjointed group, but 
exceedingly difficult to reduce into natural sub-families. The most aberrant 
or specialized are the otters, which ending with Enhydris, run parallel to the 
Bears towards the Pinnipedia.” 1 For the purpose of the present memoir it 
will suffice to divide this family into two sub-families ; viz., the Mustelines 
comprehending the weasels, the glutton, the badgers, etc.; and the Lutrince , 
or otters. 
Sub-Family A.— MUSTELINES. 
Genera. — The only genera of this sub-family which it will be necessary to 
mention for the purposes of this memoir, are the following, arranged in the 
order adopted in the catalogue of the osteological collection of the Royal 
College of Surgeons. The number of cheek-teeth in each genus is given 
after the name, viz . : 
Gulo . 
pm. | m 
• i 
Taxidea 
Galictis2 
• • ,, f 
„ ,j' ■ || 
Meles 
Ictonyx 
„ „ 
- „ 
Mydaus .... 
Helictis 
„ | 
' Arctonyx 
Mellivora 
• ■ „ t 
Mephitis 
Conepatus 
pm. f m. | 
There is really no well-marked distinction between this group of genera 
and the more typical weasels ; but since it is only to certain of the genera 
mentioned in this list that the fossil forms described below can have any 
affinity, it is unnecessary to allude further to the other genera of the 
family. In the genera mentioned the number of true molars is, with one 
exception, | ; but this exception renders the only constant numerical 
l Flower. 2 Syrionyms Grisonia and Galera. 
