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been figured two Monkeys. Nobody has consulted Gray's 

 » Spicilegia", they merely transcribed what foregoing writers 

 wrote down. 



Since 1814 Dr. Gray had among the drawings under 

 his charge the portrait of an animal belonging to the 

 Lyons Museum and presented to him by Mr. Jourdan in 

 that year : this animal has been described by Jourdan 

 (Comptes rendus des seances de l'Académie des Sciences , 

 1837, p. 442) as Hemigale zéhré and Dr. Gray described 

 in the same year (the Magazine of Natural History, Vol. 

 I, New Series, 1837, p. 579) the for about 23 years pre- 

 viously to him presented drawing as Paradoxums? Zebra. 

 Jourdan having baptized his animal merely with a french 

 name and Gray having given a latin name to the same 

 animal , the latter should generally have been adopted , if 

 Dr. Gray a few lines earlier and at the same page where 

 he described the drawing (being that of the animal in the 

 Lyons Museum) had not given a diagnosis of specimens 

 belonging to the Zoological Society and to Lord Derby's 

 collections and representing exactly the same species as 

 P. zebra , under the title of Paradoxurus Derbyanus. He 

 therefore described the same animal under three different 

 names. 



Although Jourdan in his original description gave the 

 animal a french name only, he created a new genus for 

 its reception, the genus Hemigale^ which he translated in 

 Latin (see I.e. p. 442) as Bemigalus , so that we ought to 

 accept this generic name and not Hemigale or Hemigalea. 



The animal's latin title therefore is Hemigalus derbya- 

 nus (Gray). 



Major Frauquhar's paper-specimen seems to originate 

 from Malacca ; Dr. S. Muller described the animal from 

 South-Easteru Borneo (v. d. Hoeven's Tijdschr. voor Na- 

 tuurlijke Geschiedenis en Physiologie, Vol. V, 1838 — 1839, 

 p. 144, s. n. Viverra Boiei) , meanwhile I pointed out (N. 

 L. M. 1889, p. 23) that a skeleton of it in the Leyden 

 Museum had been collected by Dr. Hagen in Deli, N. E. 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseum , Vol. 'K.'K.. 



