GALIDIA AND ITS SPECIES. 131 



NOTE XXXV. 

 ON THE GENUS GALIDIA AND ITS SPECIES. 



BY 



Dr. P. A. JENTINK. 



April 1879. 



In the year 1839 Is. Geoff. St. Hilaire ^) described and 

 figured three species of his new genus Galidia , viz : ele- 

 gans , concolor and olivacea , all natives of Madagascar. It 

 seems that Galidia olivacea has not been captured by 

 the travellers who visited Madagascar after Bernier and 

 Goudot: the only specimen hitherto known was the type 

 of which Is. G. St. Hilaire relates "la queue, dans notre 

 individu, est incomplete; mais, a en juger par la portion 

 tres étendue qui est conservee , elle parait plus longue 

 que chez la Galidie concolore" , and therefore every 

 one meant that the tail of the species in question would 

 be as long as it is in Galidia concolor ^). The two other 

 species are of frequent occurrence , especially Galidia elegans : 

 some writers considered them as belonging to the same 

 species , and the coyicolor as the young of the elegans ; other 

 authors agreed with Is. G. St. Hilaire in keeping the two 



1) Magasin de Zoölogie, 1839, deuxièine série, p. 18 et sqq,. pis. 14, 15, 

 16 et 17. The descriptions are very exact and the figures extraordinarily beau- 

 tiful and of a striiiing resemblance. 



2) Grandidier (Revue et Magasin de Zoölogie, 1867) says : "Je pense que 

 la G. concolor est un jeune individu de la G. olivacea," without giving reason 

 for this statement. 



Notes irona the Leyclen Museum. 



