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SIWALIK AND NARBADA CARNIVORA. 
cynogaline sections ; of wliicli tlie first alone need be considered at any length. 
According to the same authority the first of these sections comprehends the 
following six genera : viz., Viverra, Vivemcula , Fossa , Genetta , Prionoclon , and 
Poiana : the two first are, however, united by many writers. The two last are 
distinguished by the absence of ; and on this account will not require further 
notice, since that tooth is present in the fossils to be described. In the four 
remaining genera, the number of the cheek-teeth is pm. f, m] f ; as in Cyon. 
In the genus Viverra (fig 11), the cheek-teeth are relatively large, and the 
upper carnassial markedly sectorial. The 
inner tubercle of the same is relatively 
larger than in Canis ; and has a minute 
rudiment of an anterior talon. The 
earlier premolars are relatively shorter 
than in that genus, and have no talons. 
The first true molar is always more or 
less triangular in shape, transversely 
elongated, and larger than m. 2 , although 
there is considerable variation in the 
relative size of the latter. In the man- 
dible, while the premolars are relatively 
shorter than in Canis, the talon of m. 1 is 
larger, and the inner cusp of the 
blade large, and placed almost oppo- 
site the hinder outer lobe, causing the 
cusp-line to be almost directly transverse. 
The dentition of Viverricida (comprehending only V. malaccensisj is so like 
that of Viverra , that for paleontological purposes they may be united. Probably 
the same may be affirmed of Fossa 1 , of Madagascar. The genus Genetta in addition 
to numerous points which are inapplicable to the present enquiry, differs from 
Viverra in the more distinctly triangular form of the auditory bulla f and the teeth 
of the latter are, according .to Professor Mivart, 3 distinguished from those of the 
former in that rn. 2 is in general, and especially in V. tangalunga , relatively larger 
and more obtusely triangular, or even nearly quadrangular, and is more nearly 
equal in size with the tooth in front of it 4 ; m. 1 has a relatively larger internal 
portion, while in both pm. 4 and ml the talon is larger, that of m. L (if not that 
of pm. 4 also), bearing three small cusps. 5 In Genetta pm. 3 has usually an inner 
l Mivart. op. cit. p. 152. 2 The bulla of Viverricula is more like that of Genetta. 
3 1 lid pp. 153-4. In the original of this passage, as may he inferred from the note at the conclusion (5 infra ) 
the words Viverra and Genetta are apparently transposed. In consequence of this V. tangalunga is noticed as an exception, 
instead of as the most marked instance : this has been corrected in the quotation. 
4 A skull (associated with a skin) in the British Museum, and named G. tigr.im has m. 2 very minute and triangular. A 
specimen in the College of Surgeons, with the same name has, however, this tooth as large as m.i . It is difficult to think 
that these two specimens belong to the same species. 
5 Well shown in Viverra zibet ha, pi. XII of De Blainville’s “ Osteographie,” Gen. Viverra. 
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