SI W ALIK AND NARBADA CARNIVORA. 
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6. Viverra leptorhyncha, Filli. 1 Quercy phosphorites. Ichneugale , Jourdain. 
A small species, with, small talon to mTT ; upper dentition unknown except P m - 4 . 
7. Viverra malaccensis, Gmel. Recent. India to China. V. indica, Geof. 
V. pallida , Gray. V. rasse, Horsf. Viverricula , Hodgs. 
A very small species : ui. 2 very small. 
8. Viverra megaspila. 2 Blytli. Recent. Malacca to Cochin China. 
Twice the size of V. tangalunga. 
9. Viverra minima, Filli. 3 Quercy phosphorites. 
A very minute species, with small talon to m. 1. 
10. Viverra sansaniensis, 4 Lart. Mid. miocene. Sansan. 
A small species. 
11. Viverra tangalunga, 5 Gray. Recent. Malacca, Borneo, etc. 
The smallest living species : m - 2 relatively large. 
12. ViveRra zibetha, 6 Linn. Recent. India, China, and Penang. V. 
bengalensis , Gray. V. civettina , Blytli. V. civettoides , V. melanura , and 
V. orientalis , Hodgs. V. undidata , Gray. 
Generally rather smaller than V civetta : m 2 relatively smaller, inner part of m 1 smaller 
and pm. 4 longer. 
The mandible of another form, is figured without specific determination, by 
M. Filhol, 7 from Quercy ; and indicates an animal about the size of 
V. zibetlia , but with a shorter mandible, and smaller talon to m. 1 . The general 
shorter form of the jaws in so many of the fossil species, as well as the smaller 
size of the talons of m. i (a . character of Genetta ), are remarkable points, as in the 
dogs and cats these characters are indications of high specialization. V. zibethoides , 
Blai \\.=Am r pliic,yon\ and V. parisiensis , Blain., belongs to another genus ; and the same 
may probably be said of V. gig ant ea? 
Distribution.- The genus Viverra is at the present time exclusively Asiatic, while the 
whole living family is confined to the Old World. The fossil forms mentioned 
above, some of which from the small size of the talon of m. 1 may possibly belong 
to Genetta , are all confined to the Old World : the genus commenced in the upper 
eocene. 
Species 1. Viverra bakeri, Bose. 
Syn. Canis ? sp., Falc. and Caut. 
History. — In the supplemental plates of the u F.A.S.” 9 there are represented 
a cranium, and the portion of a left maxilla of a small Siwalik carnivore, 
in the British Museum ; entered doubtfully in the description of the plates 10 as 
Canis Recently Mr. Bose 11 has described these specimens under the name of 
Viverra bakeri. 
1 “Notes sur quelques Mammiferes, etc.” oi).cit., pi. IV. 
2 Gunther, “ Pro. Zool. Soc.” 1876, p. 428. 3 “ Phosphorites du Quercy ” figs 334-6. 
4 Gervais op. cit., pi. XXII, fig. 1. 
5 Gray, “Pro. Zool. Soc.” 1832, p. 63. ' 6 Woodcut, fig 11, supra, p. 266 
7 “ Phosphorites du Quercy,” figs 115-6. 8 Blain ville “ Osteographie, ” Genus Viverra pi. XIII. 
9 PL Q. figs 1, a, b, 3; 10 “Palaeontological Memoirs,” vol. I, p 553. 
11 “ Quart. Journ. Gcol. Soc.” vol. XXXVI, p. 131. 
