GENETTA. PRIONODON. PARADOXURUS 399 



685. Qenetta aubryana Pucheran. 



Gsnetta aubryana Puch., Rev. Zool., in, 1855, p, 154. 

 Aubry's Genetta. 



I. Adult — P. Batuga, Cameroons, W. Africa. C. W. McCleary. 



Genus 190. Priouodon. 



*Prionodon Horsf., Zool. Res. in Java, No. 5, 1824. Type Felis 

 gracilis Horsfield == Viverra linsang Hardwicke. 



' Priodonte' F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mamm,, iv, 1822, livr. xxviii, 

 p. 2. 



Priodontes F. Cuvier, in Less. Man. Mamm., 1827, p. 309. 



Linsang Mall., Verhand. Natuur. Geschied. Nederl. Besitt., Leiden, 

 I, 1839, p. 



686. Prionodon linsang (Hardwicke). 



Viverra linsang Hardw., Trans. Linn. Soc, xiii, 181 2, p. 256, pi. 



XXIV. 



Viverra gracilis Desm., Mamm., 1820, p. 539. 

 Felis gracilis Horsf., Zool. Res. in Java, No. i, 1824. 

 Viverra hardwickii Less., Mon. Mamm., 1827, p. 172. 

 Paradjxurus prehgnsilis Schinz, Cuv. Thierr., iv, 1821, p. 349. 

 (nee Blainv.) 

 Linsang. 



I. Adult ? P. North Borneo. 'E. Gerrard & Sons. 



Genus 191. Paradoxurus. 



Paradoxurus F. Cuv., Hist. Nat. Mamm., iii, 182 1, pi. & text. Id. 

 Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom., 1822, p. 103. Type Paradoxurus 

 typus F. Cuvier = Viverra nigra Desmarest. 



687. Paradoxurus hermaphroditus (Schreber). 



Viverra hermaphrodita Schreb., Saugth., iii, 177S, p. 426. 

 Viverra prehensilis Desm., Mamm., 1820, p. 20S. 



* Some writers have rejected this term on account of its being antedated by 

 Priodon Cuvier. It does not seem that Cuvier ever used the term Priodon. 

 In 1822 (1. c.) he used the French word Priodonte which of course cannot be 

 adopted, and his new reference to these animals Priodontes was in 1827, three 

 years after Prionodon was estabUshed by Horsfield. It would seem therefore 

 that Prionodon is correctly used for the genus, and may not be superceded bv 

 Linsang, which becomes a synonym. 



