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Show 1 885.] GENUS PARADOXURUS. 785 (1831), and referred by him to Paradoxurus in the next volume of the same work. In the Society's ' Proceedings' for 1832, pp. 65-68, Dr. Gray gave a list1 of the known species of Paradoxurus, and proposed as new P. pennantii, P. dubius, P. pallasii, P. crossii, P. hamil-tonii, P. trivirgatus, and P. finlaysonii, besides enumerating P. typus, P. bondar, P. prehensilis, P. musanya, P. hermaphroditus, P. leucopus, P. larvatus, and P. binotatus previously described. He was also inclined to refer to the genus Viverra malaccensis of Gmelin (which, however, is a Viverricula) and Paradoxurus aureus of F. Cuvier. In Gray and Ilardwieke's 'Illustrations of Indian Zoology,' P. crossii, P. pallasii, P. prehensilis, P. hamiltonii, P. larvatus, bondar, and P. pennantii are figured. The figures are not good, and some of them are very inferior, P. prehensilis, P. bondar, and P. pennantii being founded on drawings alone, as was also P.finlaysonii. In 1837 Gray described six more supposed species of the genus- P. quinquelineatus, P. leucomystax, P. musanyoides, P. derbyanus, P. zebra, and P.jourdanii-in Charlesworth's 'Magazine of Natural History,' vol. i. Another name, P. niyrifrons, was added by the same author in the ' List of the Specimens of Mammalia in the Collection of the British Museum,' published in 1843. Otto, in the 'Nova Acta Academiae Leop.-Car.' for 1835, gave an excellent description and good figures of an animal which he recognized as the Viverra hermaphrodita of Pallas, but which he did not identify with Cuvier's genus Paradoxurus. He gave an account with illustrations of the genital glands, and proposed a new generic name Platyschista and the specific term pallasii. In the same year Paradoxurus grayi was described by Bennett in the Proceedings of this Society. In 1836 Hodgson added three more names, P. hirsutus, P. nipalensis, and P.lanigerus (subsequently corrected to laniger), in the ' Asiatic Researches,' vol. xix. In 1837 Jourdan in the 'Comptes Rendus' proposed two new genera under the names of Hemigalus (Hemigale is preferable) and Ambliodon (Amblyodon). No Latin specific names were given ; the animals were called Hemigale zebre and Ambliodon dore. A n essay by De Blainville on these two forms appeared in the 'Comptes Rendus,' and was copied into the Ann. Sci. Nat. 2me ser. viii. p. 270, and in the table at the end he united Ambliodon and Paradoxurus, whilst leaving LTemigale as a distinct section ; both being considered subgenera or sections of Viverra. In a subsequent page of the same volume of the ' Comptes Rendus,' Mr. Jourdan briefly described a species of Paradoxurus from the Philippines, under the name of P. philippinensis. This paper was reviewed by F. Cuvier in the ' Annales des Sciences Naturelles.' About 1839 there appeared a monograph of the genus by Temminck, in the ' Monographies de Mammalogie,' vol. ii. Temminck admitted seven species, viz. P. typus, P. musanga, P. leucomystax, 1 This paper was reprinted in the ' Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,' vol. ii. p. 377. |
