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Show 152 PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ALUROIDEA. [Feb. 7, as follows :-G. vulgaris (from tbe south of France, Spain, North Africa, and Western Asia at Mount Carmel), G. felina (from South Africa, including the Cape), G. senegalensis (from Africa, East, West, and North), G. tigrina (from South Africa, Abyssinia, and Whydah), and G. pardina (from West Africa and Fernando Po). Thus the genus is essentially African, sending one species on to Fig. 3. Pads of Genetta tigrina. A. Palmar surface of left manus ; B. Plantar surface of left pes. Europe and Western Asia; while Viverra is mainly Asiatic, but has one species exclusively African. In Viverricula and Genetta vulgaris we have the only species common to Asia and Africa. The two groups the Civets and Genets certainly merit to rank as distinct genera; for, in addition to uniformlv smaller size and the distinction of geographical range of the latter, they have certain distinctive cranial, dental, and external characters. Thus, instead |
