284 Mr. W. T. Blanford on the African 



the Etlilopian affinities of wliicli are quite as strong as their 

 jVlahiyan rchititnis, aiul certain rodents, Lexjcjada a.nd Golunda, 

 which are said to have Ethiopian representatives, and which 

 liave certainly not hitherto been traced into tlie Mahay 

 countries. I will omit these ; but, in justice to j\lr. Wallace's 

 views, I must add a very imjiortant genus to the list. Txipaia 

 ElUotti has recently been found both in the Bengal and 

 Deccan subprovinces of the Indian subregion, and it must 

 therefore be added to the Indian fauna. As the distribution 

 and affinities of the ^lammalia arc better known than those of 

 any other class, I shall go into a few details ; and to show the 

 affinities of the 38 genera I will take them seriatim with 

 Mr. Wallace's remarks on each between brackets. 



1 . Preshyt.€s (Oriental only) . Replaced throughout the Ethio- 



pian region by the allied genus Culohus. 



2. Macacus (Oriental only). One species occurs in Northern 



Africa. Allied genera are found in the Ethiopian region, 

 e. g. Cercopithecus ; but the alliance is perhaps less close 

 than in the case of Preshytes. 



3. Erinaceus (Palffiarctic genus). Found also in Central and 



Southern Africa, but absent and not replaced by any 

 closely allied genus in ]\Ialayasia. Gymmira is placed 

 in the same family by Mr. Wallace, but by others it is 

 classed with Tupaia^ and is certainly not a near ally of 

 Erinaceus. 



4. Surex (widely distributed). The subgenera require further 



study before their distribution can be considered deter- 

 mined. 



5. Felts (almost cosmopolitan). 



6. Cymelurus (Ethiopian and S. Palsearctic) . I am not sure 



that this is fully entitled to generic rank. 



7. Viverra (Ethiopian and Oriental to China and Malaya). 



8. Viverricula (Oriental only). This is at the most a sub- 



genus of Viverra, and has no title to generic rank. 



9. Paradoxurus [Ox'x&nXdX oviXy) . The species found in Western 



Africa, P. hinotatusj has been made a distinct genus by 

 Gray ; but it appears doubtful if the distinctions pointed 

 out are of sufficient importance to justify generic separa- 

 tion. In any ease Nandinia, as the African form is 

 called, is very closely allied. 



10. Herpestes (Ethiopian, South-Pal^earctic, and Oriental to 



Malaya). 



11. Calogale (Ethiopian, Oriental to Cambodja). This docs 

 not appear to be more than a subgenus of Herpestes ; and, 

 so far as the Indian species are concerned, even this rank 

 is doubtful, it being even a question how far one Indian 



