OF THE TKXTU EJ^ITIOX OK LIXX.EUS. 137 



2. MEMPHITIS. p. 44. C'^) 



Iso Linnean reference. 



" Y.sqiiiepatl, Hern. Mex. 332; Seb. Mus. i. p. 68, pi. xlii. 



fig. 1 ; Rai, quadr. p. 181." 



It does not seem possible to determine to what animal this 



name should be applied. Hernandez gives a figure which has a 



superficial resemblance to a Ta,yra, but the description of the 



tail is quite inconsistent with this idea, and is applicable rather 



to a Skunk or Bassariscus. Seba's animal was probably a JVasua. 



Linnaeus himself says in one place that the colour is brown 



above and yellowish below, and in another that it is white above 



and vai-iegated black and white below, an inconsistency which 



justifies one in treating the name as unrecognizable. 



3. PUTORius. p. 44. Spilogale. 



Ko Linnean reference. 



" Putorius americanus striatus, Catesb. Carol, ii. p. 62." 

 Alleghenian Spotted Skunk. 

 Type locality : South Carolina. 

 See Howell,' N. Am. Faun. no. 26, pp. 15-17, 1906. 



4, ziBETHA. p, 44. Viverra. 

 No Linnean references, that in the 6th edition, p. 6 (Meles, 



no. 2), being omitted in the 10th. It quotes " Ray, Quadr. 

 178; Dod. gall. 155." 

 General references to Clusius, Ray, Dodart, Hernandez, 

 Olearius, and Beltonius. 

 From the name zihetha we may take the " Animal zibethicum" 

 of Ray, Dodart, Hernandez, and Olearius as the primary reference, 

 and of these we should take the first in Ray, who is also the first 

 quoted in the omitted 6th edition reference. 



Turning to Ray we find he quotes the description by Faber in 

 Hernandez, Nov. Hispan. pp. 538, 580, and 581 (also quoted by 

 Linnaeus). Taking, again, the first of these we find an animal de- 

 scribed which has a ringed ta.il, and would therefore be an Indian 

 Civet. The illustration does not show the rings properly, but 

 they are sufficiently indicated in the description. All the other 

 references are to the African V. civetta. 

 Type locality (fi'om Faber) : Bengal. 



5, 6EXETTA. p. 45. Geneita. 



No Linnean reference, 



"Genetta s. Ginetta, Rai, quadr, 201. Bell. itin. 76. Gesn. 

 quadr. 550." 

 The first reference in Ray being to Spain, that may be taken as 

 the type locality, especially as the basis of the name ((lineta) 

 remains as the Spanish colloquial term for the animal, 



