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not use the term in preference to Tupaia. Glisorex was adopted by 

 Blainville and Owen. 



Glisosorex. — Used by Giebel in Odontographie, 1855, page 18. He 

 probably intended to copy the term Glisorex from Owen's Odontog- 

 raphy. On the same page he uses the term Cladobates, evidently 

 thinking it a different genus from Glisorex and assigning different 

 dental formulas to the two animals. His knowledge of Cladobates 

 appears to be based upon Horsfield's account and figures in Zoological 

 Researches m Java. No species are mentioned under Glisosorex, 

 and the term is simply a variant of Glisorex. 



Herpestes. — Anderson (Zool. Res. West. Yunnan, 1879, p. 132) says: 

 ' ' Diard and Duvaucel's figure [of Sorex glis] in the Asiatic Researches 

 (Asiatic Researches, vol. 14, 1822, pi. 9) appears to have been copied 

 in a slightly reduced form into the Calcutta Journal of Natural His- 

 tory (Cal. Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. 2, 1842, p. 456, pi. 13*, fig. 1), 

 where it is regarded as a Herpestes!" I have been unable to consult 

 the volume of the Calcutta Journal referred to. In his introduction 

 to Diard and Duvaucel's account Major General Hardwicke says: 

 ''It bears most resemblance I think to the genus Viverra, particularly 

 to V. Ichneumon." 



Hylogale. — Proposed by Temminck (Monographies de Mammalogie, 

 p. xix) in 1827 as a substitute for Tupaia, which being derived 

 from the native name tupai he considered a "nom tres-vicieux." 

 He further remarks, ' ' Ce changement est dans Vinteret de la science; 

 il sera sans doute adopte." According to Temminck the genus con- 

 tained three species, which, however, are not mentioned by name. 

 The term as originally written by Temminck never seems to have 

 been adopted by other authors. 



Hylogalea. — An emendation of Hylogale Temminck, used by Schlegel 

 and Miiller (Verb. Nat. Gesch. Nederl. Overs, Bezitt, 1839-44, 

 p. 159) as the proper designation of the treeshrews. It is a pure 

 synonym of Tupaia, but included two species which were unlmown 

 to Raffles. The forms included by Schlegel and Miiller are tana, 

 ferruginea, javanica, and murina, the last since made the type of the 

 genus Dendrogale Gray. Aside from Schlegel and Miiller the name 

 does not seem to appear in the literature. In subsequent publica- 

 tions Schlegel adopts the term Tupaja. 



Ptilocercus. — Proposed by Gray (Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1848, 

 p. 23) for the very curious animal since then known as Ptilocercus 

 lowii. So far as I am aware no other term has ever been proposed 

 for Ptilocercus, neither has the animal ever been placed in any other 

 established genus. 



Ptilocerus. — A misspelling of Ptilocercus found in Wallace's Geo- 

 graphical Distribution of Animals, 1876, vol. 1, p. 337; vol. 2, p. 187; 

 and in Island Life, 1881, p. 345, and in Brehm's Thierleben, 1864, 

 vol. 1, p. 664. 



