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Genetta in France and Spain, Viverra in Shangliae and Batchian 
Island, and Herpestes in Java and the Cape of Good Hope. 
The following are the genera with their distribution as given 
by l)r. J. E. Gray in his latest British Museum Catalogue : 
Sub-family Viverrine. — Viverra (3 species), North and 
tropical Africa, the whole Oriental region to the Moluccas ; 
Viverricula (1 species) India to Java ; Genetta (5 species), South 
Europe, Palestine, Arabia, and all Africa ; Fossa (1 species), Ma- 
dagascar ; Linsang (2 species), Malacca to Java; Poiana (1 
species), West Africa ; Galiclia (3 species), Madagascar ; Hemi- 
galea (1 species), Malacca and Borneo ; Arctictis (1 species) Nepal 
to Sumatra and Java; Nandinia (1 species), West Africa; Para- 
doxurus (9 species), the whole Oriental region; Paguma (3 species), 
Nepal to China, Sumatra, and Borneo ; Arctogale (1 species), Te- 
nasserim to Java. 
Sub-family Herpestine. — Cynogale (1 species), Borneo ; Gali- 
dictis (2 species), Madagascar ; Heryestes (22 species), South False- 
arctic, Ethiopian, and Oriental regions ; Athylax (3 species), Tro- 
pical and South Africa ; Galogale (13 species), all Africa, North 
India, to Cambodja; Galerella (1 species), East Africa; Calietis 
(1 species), Ceylon (?); Ariella (1 species), South Africa ; Ichnenmia 
(4 species), Central, East, and South Africa ; Bdeogale (3 species), 
West and East Africa ; TJrva (1 species), Himalayas to Aracan ; 
TmniogaU (1 species), Central India; Onychogale (1 species), 
Ceylon; Helogale (2 species) East and South Africa; Cynictis 
(3 species), South Africa. 
Sub-family Rhinogalide. — Rhinogale (1 species). East Africa ; 
Mungos (3 species), all Africa ; Crossarchus (1 species), Tropical 
Africa ; Fupleres (1 species), Madagascar ; Suricata (1 species), 
South Africa. 
Fossil Viverridce. — Several species of Viverra and Genetta have 
been found in the Upper Miocene of France, and many extinct 
genera have also been discovered. The most remarkable of these 
was Ictitherium, from the Upper Miocene of Greece, which has 
also been found in Hungary, Bessarabia, and France. Some of the 
species were larger than any living forms of Viverridse, and 
approached the hyaenas. Other extinct genera are Thalassictis 
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