1882.] PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ZLUROIDEA. 207 
The Asiatic and African Cats are distinct, except the Lion, Leo- 
pard, Caracal, and Chetah. Twenty-six species seem to be peculiar 
to Asia, and only six to Africa. Ten species are peculiar to America. 
The Indian archipelago is very rich in species; and the island of 
Bali seems their extreme limit. The Tiger is found there. Two 
species of Lynx and the Wild Cat are European. 
The Hyenide are almost entirely African, and three of its five 
species South-African. H. striata alone extends into Western Asia 
and Northern Africa. 
The family Viverride is exclusively confined to the Old World, and 
has but two representatives—a Genet and an Ichneumon (Genetta 
vulgaris and Herpestes ichneumon)—in Europe. 
Apart from the Ichneumons and Paradoxures, twelve species are 
Asiatic and twenty African. The Ichneumons are divided, as before- 
said, into thirteen Asiatic and seven ‘African. The Paradoxures are 
all Asiatic, but are not well defined as to species ; if we accept provi- 
sionally the number (twelve) of Dr. Gray ', that will give a total of 
thirty-seven Asiatic forms of Viverride, and thirty-two African 
forms. Besides these, eight species are found in Madagascar. 
No species is common to Asia and the continent of Africa, except 
Genetia vulgaris and Herpestes ichneumon. 
No species appears to be common to Madagascar and the conti- 
nent of Africa, a species of Crossarchus found there having been 
probably introduced by man. 
No species is common to Madagascar and Asia except Viverricula, 
that wandering Jew amongst the Viverride, the extensive range of 
which has been already indicated °. 
The other Madagascar species are Fossa, Eupleres, and the four 
species of. Galidictine and Cryptoprocta. 
Thus Madagascar, containing as it does examples of all five sub- 
families of Viverride, has by far the most peculiar Viverrine fauna 
of the whole world. 
Next to it comes Borneo, with its Prionodon, Arctictis, Oynogale, 
Hemigalea, Parodoxuri, and Herpestes ; and the Indian Archipelago 
generally is rich in Viverrine life as well as being inhabited by the 
Cats F. macrocelis, F.marmoratus, F'. planiceps, and F. badia. 
The Viverrine section of the subfamily Viverrine are pretty equally 
divided between Asia and Africa ; with the exception of the West- 
African Nandinia, the paradoxurine section of the Viverrine are en- 
tirely Asiatic. 
As a rule the Viverring as to species are predominantly Asiatic, 
while the Herpestine are predominantly African, and especially 
South-African, As regards genera, the Viverring have six genera 
peculiar to Africa, and one to Madagascar, while three (Viverra, 
Viverricula, and Genetta) are common to both the continents. 
As regards genera, the subfamily Herpestine has no less than six 
peculiar to Africa, and not one Asiatic genus which is not also found 
in Africa, the only genus common to the two continents being Her- 
pestes. 
? Cat. of Carnivora in Brit. Mus., p. 63. ? See ante, p. 149. 
