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(1831), and referred by him to Paradoxurus in the next volume of 

 the same work. 



la the Society's ' Proceedings ' for 1832, pp. 65-68, Dr. Gray 

 gave a list ' of the known species of Paradoxurus, and proposed as 

 new P. pennantii, P. dubiiis, P. pallasii, P. crossii, P. hamil- 

 tonii, P. triviryatu.t, and P. finlaysonii, besides enumerating P. 

 tijpus, P. bondar, P. prehensilis, P. mumiuja, P. hermaphroditus, P. 

 leucopus, P. larvatus, and P. Linotatus previously described. He 

 was also inclined to refer to the genus Viverra malaccensis of 

 Gmelin (which, however, is a Fiverricula) and Paradoxurus aureus 

 of F. Cuvier. 



In Gray and Hardwicke's ' Illustrations of Indian Zoology,' 

 P. crossii, P. pa//asii, P. prehensilis, P. hamillonii, P. larvatus, P. 

 bondar, and P. pennantii are figured. Tiie figures are not good, and 

 some of them are very inferior, P. prehensilis, P. bondar, and P. 

 pennantii being founded on drawings alone, as was also P.Jinlaysonii. 



In 1837 Gray described six more supposed species of the genus — 

 P. quinquelineatus, P. leucomystax, P. musangoides, P. derhyanus, 

 P. zebra, and P.jourdanii — in Charlesworth's 'Magazine of Natural 

 History,' vol. i. Another name, P. nigrifrons, was added by the same 

 author in the ' List of the Specimens of Mammalia in the Collection 

 of the British Museum,' published in 1843. 



Otto, in the 'Nova Acta Academite Leop.-Car.' for 1835, gave 

 an excellent description and good figures of an animal which he 

 recognized as the Viverra hermaphrodita of Pallas, but which he 

 did not identify with Cuvier's genus Paradoxurus. He gave an 

 account with illustrations of the genital glands, and proposed a 

 new generic name Plafyschista and the specific term pallasii. 



In the same year Paradoxurus grayi was described by Bennett 

 in the Proceedings of this Society. In 1836 Hodgson added three 

 more names, P. hirsutus, P. nipalensis, and P.lanigeras (subsequently 

 corrected to laniger), in the ' Asiatic Researches,' vol. xix. 



In 1837 Jourdan in the 'Comptes Rendus' proposed two new 

 genera under the names of Hetnigalus {Hemigale is preferable) and 

 Ambliodon {Amblyodon). No Latin specific names were given ; the 

 animals were called Hemigale zebre and Ambliodon dcre. An essay by 

 De Blainville on these two forms appeared in the ' Comptes Rendus,' 

 and was copied into the Ann. Sci. Nat. 2me ser. viii. p. 270, and in 

 the table at the end he united Ambliodon and Paradoxurus, whilst 

 leaving Hemigale as a distinct section ; both being considered sub- 

 genera or sections of Viverra. In a subsequent page of the same 

 volume of the 'Comptes Rendus,' Mr. Jourdan briefly described a 

 species of Paradoxurus from the Philippines, under the name of P. 

 philippinensis. This paper was reviewed by F. Cuvier in the ' Annales 

 des Sciences Naturelles.' 



About 1839 there appeared a monograph of the genus by Tem- 

 rninck, in the 'Monograpliies de Mammalogie,' vol. ii. Temminck 

 admitted seven species, viz. P. typus, P. musanga, P. leucomystax, 



^ This paper was reprinted in the ' Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,' 

 vol. ii. p. 377. 



