152 PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE £ZLUROIDEA. [Feb. 7, 
as follows :—G. vulgaris (from the south of France, Spain, North 
Africa, and Western Asia at Mount Carmel), G. felina (from 
South Africa, including the Cape), G. senegalensis (from Africa, 
East, West, and North), G. ¢igrina (from South Africa, Abyssinia, 
and Whydah), and G. pardina (from West Africa and Fernando 
Po). 
Thus the genus is essentially African, sending one species on to 
Fig. 3. 
Pads of Genetta tigrina. ; 
A. Palmar surface of left manus; B. Plantar surface of left pes. 
Europe and Western Asia; while Viverra is mainly Asiatic, but 
has one species exclusively African. In Viverricula and Genetta 
vulgaris we have the only species common to Asia and Africa. 
The two groups the Civets and Genets certainly merit to rank 
as distinct genera; for, in addition to uniformly smaller size and the 
distinction of geographical range of the latter, they have certain 
distinctive cranial, dental, and external characters. Thus, instead 
