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GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY. 
[PART IV, 
the limitation of types, and the peculiarities of distribution we 
now find to exist. 
Order III.— IN SECT IVOR A. 
Family 14 — GALEOPITHECIDZE. (1 Genus, 2 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical 
Sub-rfgions. 
Ne arctic 
Sub-regions. 
Paxasarctic 
| Sub- regions. 
Ethiopian 
Sub-regions. 
Oriental 
Sub-regions, j 
Australian 
Sub-regions. 
1 
The singular and isolated genus Gcdeopitheeus, or flying lemur, 
has been usually placed among the Lemuroidea, but it is now 
considered to come best at the head of the Insectivora. Its food 
however, seems to be purely vegetable, and the very small, blind, 
and naked young, closely attached to the wrinkled skin of the 
mother’s breast, perhaps indicates some affinity with the Marsu- 
pials. This animal seems, in fact, to be a lateral offshoot of 
some low form, which has survived during the process of develop- 
ment of the Insectivora, the Lemuroidea, and the Marsupials, 
from an ancestral type. Only two species are known, one 
found in Malacca, Sumatra, and Borneo, but not in Java; the 
other in the Philippine islands (Plate VIII. vol. i. p. 337). 
Family 15, — MACROSCELIDIDiE. (3 Genera, 10 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical 
Sub-regions. 
1 Msarctic 
SUB-REG'ONS. 
Pa 1,/U ARCTIC 
SUB-KEGIONS. 
Ethiopi \N 
Sub-regions. 
Oriental 
Sub- regions. 
Australian 
Sub-regions. 
The Macroscelides, or elephant shrews, are extraordinary little 
animals, with trunk-like snout and kangaroo-like hind-legs. 
They are almost confined to South Africa, whence they extend 
up the east coast as far as the Zambezi and Mozambique. A 
