the Mascarene Vivern'd Galidictis. 123 



b'. Tail mostly white, only dark basally above. 

 a^. Six broad black stripes ; interspaces, belly, 



and legs paler ._ eximius, nov. 



b-. Eight black stripes, the supero-lateral 

 duplicated ; interspaces, belly, and legs 



darker ornatus, nov. 



h. Heel naked ; dark stripes narrow, much nar- 

 rower than interspaces Mungotictis, nov 



c. Eight conspicuous black-browu stripes, six 



extending to head ; interspaces paler vittatas, Gray. 



e'. Ten inconspicuous red-brown stripes, none 

 passing beyond shoulders, the third from 

 above short ; interspaces darker, olive-grey, substriatus, nov. 



The synonymy of the species referred to Galidictis is 

 probably as follou s : — 



1. Galidictis fasciatus, Gniel. 



Viverra fasciata, Gviii^\m=Viverra striata, Desmarest ; nee GnHdidis 

 striata of recent authors. 



No specimen of this species is known. I have included it 

 in Galidictis because of the breadth of the black stripes; but 

 tlie tail is coloured much as in the species of Mungotictis and 

 the hind foot may have been naked to the heel as in that 

 genus. 



2. • Galidictis eximius, nov. 



? Mustela striata, E. Geoffroy ( = Galidictis striata of recent authors, 

 in part). 



3. Galidictis ornatus, nov. 



? Galidictis striata, I. Geoffroy { = Galidictis striata of recent authors, 

 in part). 



JS^ote on the Specijic Name of the Type-species of Galidia. 



Is. Geoferoy St. Hilaire (Mag. de Zool. 1839, p. 27) identi- 

 fied, and apparently with good reason, the " Vondsire " of 

 Flacourt (Hist. Madag. 1661, p. 151) with Galidia elegans, 

 and incidentally pointed out that the " Vansire " of Button 

 and Daubenton was a different animal, though possibly 

 belonging to the same genus. 



Tlie name elegans was accepted as the specific tiile of the 

 type of Galidia until 1908, when Thomas and Wroughtou 

 (P. Z. S. 1908, p. 167) proposed to substitute galera for it, 

 on the grounds that the Vansire of BufFon and Daubenton, 

 the type of Mustela galera, Schreber (Siiug. iii. p. 493, 



