The specific name of the striped muishond of South Africa

184 Proceedings

^ofthe Biological Society of

Washington.

THE SPECIFIC NAME OF THE STRIPED MUISHOND OF SOUTH AFRICA.

In

1906

Howell*

called attention to the fact that the _specific

name

striata

then

in use forthe_striped

maishond

of

South

Africareferred in reality to aspecies of S/nlogale,

and he proposed

^thatthe African

animal

be called

Ictonyx

capensis ⁽

Smith

).+ It

now comes

_{to light} that the

Cape muishond was independently named _Bradypus

striatus in1810

by Geo.

Perry,t

and

as this

name

is

not preoccupied by

the Viverrastriata of

Shaw,

1800,

which

isaspecies of Spilogale, the

South

African _striped

muishond must

be calledIctonyx ^striatus (Perry).

The animal from which

Perry's plate

was drawn was

exhibitedalive in

London and was

doubtfullyreported ^to

have been found

in

South America, but

^thereis

no

question^{as toits} identification

with

the

Cape ^form

^ofIctonyx.

—N.

Hollister.

*Proc. Biol. Soc.Washington,^vol.19, p. 46. February26, 1906.

+DescriptiveCat.S.AfricanMiis., p. 20. 1826.

XArcana or The

Museum

of Natural History, pt. 11, pi. [41] and text. p. [1].

November,1810. I

am

indebtedtoDr.C.W.

Richmond

forthe opportunitytosee this volume. Thetext

and

platesarenotnumbered;titlepage dated1811.