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of Tupaia. The term was adopted by many subsequent writers as 

 the generic designation of the treeshrews, among them Lesson, 

 1827; Wagner, 1841; Giebel, 1855; Peters, 1864; Zelebor, 1869; 

 Fitzinger, 1870. 



Dendrogale. — Proposed by Gray (Proc. ZooL Soc. London, 1848, 

 pi. 16, p. 23) in 1848 as a genus for the species Hylogalea murina 

 Schlegel and Miiller, Twelve years later Gray apparently repudi- 

 ated the name when he described another species as Tupaia frenata. 

 Until recent years most authors did not consider Dendrogale to be 

 generically distinct from Tupaia. Fitzinger, however, used it in 

 1870, and in 1879 it was employed by Anderson as a full genus. 

 Flower and Lydekker in 1891 did not recognize it, and Trouessart in 

 1898 gave it only subgeneric rank. In the present paper it is em- 

 ployed as th,e generic term for a small but well defined group of 

 small treeshrews which have gone under the specific names murina, 

 frenata, and melanura. 



Erinaceus. — Blainville (Osteogiaphie des Mammiferes Insectivores, 

 1839-1864, p. 112, pi. 6, fig. 1) uses the combination Erinaceus 

 (Glisorex) tana. On page 31 he uses Glisorex as a full genus in the 

 combination Glisorex ferrugineus. This is the third instance that I 

 know of where treeshrews have been referred to a genus that has not 

 been specially set aside for them. The others are Diard and Du- 

 vaucel's reference of them to Sorex in 1822, and EUis's Sciurus pub- 

 lished in Gray. Blainville's error is so evident that one wonders 

 how he made it. 



Griadobates. — A typographical error for Cladobates. It occurs in 

 Schinz, Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der Menschen und der 

 Saiigethiere, p. 54. Included species ferrugineus, javanicus. 



Glipora. — This was origmally a manuscript name of Diard, and 

 was published by Jentink in 1888 (Cat. Syst. Mus. Hist. Nat. Pays- 

 Bas, vol. 12, Mammiferes, p. 118). The species included in it are 

 G. leucogaster ( = Tupaia ininorf), G. rufescens = (Tupaia splendidula?) , 

 and G. murina = {Dendrogale murina). It is not probable Jentink 

 had any intention of establishing the name of the genus or of the 

 included species, rufescens or leucogaster. It is thus an accidental 

 synonym of Tupaia. Glipora does not occur in Palmer's Index 

 Generum Mammalium, 1904. 



Glirisorex. — Used by Scudder (Nomenclator Zoolgicus, pt. 2, 

 p. 131) in 1882 probably as an etymologic improvement over Desma- 

 rest's Glisorex. No species are mentioned. It is of course a pure 

 synonym of Tupaia used in a broad sense. 



Glisorex. — This name was propose4 by Desmarest in a footnote on 

 page 536 of his Mammalogie, 1822, as more euphonious than Sorexglis, 

 which he and other authors seemed to think was Diard and Duvaucel's 

 generic designation of the treeshrews. Desmarest, however, does 



