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Show 1882.] PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ALUROIDEA. 143 to me to be not improbably a much modified relative of the Herpestine series of genera. There remain the curious Madagascar Viverrines known as Galidictis, Galidia, and Eupleres. I think it better not to include these in either of the foregoing subfamilies, in spite of their greater affinity to the Herpestina than to the Viverrina; while Galidia olivacea and G. concolor seem to me to merit generic distinction, the former being the type of a distinct genus, Hemigalidia. The last, with Galidia and Galidictis, I would include in a separate subfamily, Galidictina, with which the singularly aberrant Eupleres seems to me to be nearly allied; yet, on account of its aberrant characters, I would keep it separate in a special subfamily, the Euple-rina. According to this view, the iEluroid forms will be grouped as follows:- Suborder ALUROIDEA. Fam. I. FELIDCE. Genera: Felis, Cynalurus. Fam. II. VIVERRIDA Subfam. 1. VIVERRINE. Genera:-A. Viverra, Viverricula, Fossa, Genetta, Prionodon, Poiana. B. Paradoxurus, Arctogale, Hemigalea, Arctictis, Nandinia. C. Cynogale. Subfam. 2. GALIDICTINA. Genera : Galidictis, Galidia, Hemigalidia. Subfam. 3. EUPLERINA. Genus : Eupleres. Subfam. 4. CRYPTOPROCTINA. Genus: Cryptoprocta. Subfam. 5. HERPESTINA. Genera :-A. Herpestes, Helogale, Cynictis, (Bdeogale (Rhinogale ?) B. Crossarchus, Suricata. Fam. III. HYANIDA. Subfam. 1. PROTELINA. Genus : Proteles. Subfam. 2. HYANINA. Genera: Hycena, Crocuta. |