502 . ZOOLOGY. 
‘genera Macrogiossus, Harpyia, and Cephalotes are at once Asiatic and. 
Oceanic. 
The aquatic Carnivora, the Pinnipedia or seals, are again rather northern 
-and temperate than southern and tropical. These animals are met, with 
the Rytina of the Sirenidia group, génerally near and beyond the arctic 
circle. 
Among terrestrial Carnivora, if we examine first the Plantigrada we find 
that they are absent from Australia, the oceanic provinces, and the tem- 
perate part of South America. In North America five or six species. In 
both tropical America and Asia they abound most; the genus Ailurus 
belongs exclusively to the latter country, whilst Cercoleptes is tropical 
American. The genera Nasua and Procyon are peculiar to the New 
World; the genus Arctitis is peculiar to Asia. The badgers (Meles) are 
chiefly European and North American; the bears are more widely spread. 
The Digitigrada have a wider distribution than the Plantigrada. Aus- 
tralia possesses one species of dog; the oceanic provinces have a dog and 
a Paradoxurus; and temperate South America has several skunks, dogs 
(Canis), otters, and cats. The cats, dogs, and martens are distributed over 
a wider area than the other genera. The genus Hyena is African and 
Asiatic; the genus Bassaris is tropical American; the genera Cynictis, Pro- 
teles, and Pyrzena belong to tropical Africa. The ichneumons are chiefly 
African and Asiatic. The Lingsang and Potomophilus are limited to tro- 
pical Asia. The greatest development of this division is in tropical Africa 
-and Asia, next in Central Asia, then in tropical America. 
The Quadrumana or monkeys, as already remarked, divide into two 
eroups, one exclusively proper to the Old, the other to the New World. 
The first section of the Quadrumana of the Old World is that of Pro- 
 simize, Lemuride, or makis, which is distributed over western and central 
Africa, the island of Madagascar and adjacent islands, the south’ Asiatic 
‘provinces, and the Indian Archipelago. To the latter districts belongs 
exclusively the genus Tarsius. The genera Otolicnus, Lichanotus, and 
-Lemur are African. 
The Simide are all African and Asiatic. ‘The genus Colobus is peculiar 
to Africa, whilst the genera Presbytis, Semnopithecus, and Hylobates belong 
exclusively to Asia. 
The Cebiidee are from tropical and temperate South America. 
The group Chiromyide is composed of one species which inhabits Mada- 
gascar. 
That of Galeopithecidze also comprises one species, peculiar to the Indian 
. Archipelago. 
With this sketch of the geographical distribution of mammals we close 
the class of Mammalia, which is the last of the animal kingdom if we except 
MAN, to whose natural history we devote the entire last subdivision of this 
volume, under the head of ANTHROPOLOGY. 
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