256 Palmer Generic and Family Names of Rodents. 



Onychomys Baird, 1857 Hypudseus leucogaster. 



* ?Orycteromys Pictet, 1842 (?) 



Oryzomys Baird, 1857 Mus palustris. 



Oxymycterua Waterhouse, 1837 Mus (Oxymycterus) nasutus. 

 * Pelamys Jourdan, 1867 (?) 'Pelamys remifer. 



Peromyscus Gloger, 1841 Peromyscus arboreus (= Cricetus my- 



oides). 



Phyllotis Waterhouse, 1837. . . . Mus (Phyllotis) darwini. 



Reithrodon 1 Waterhouse, 1837. Reithrodon typicus, R. cuniculoides. 



ReithrodontomysGiglioli,1873 Reithrodon from North America. 



Rhipidomys Tschudi, 1844 Hesperomys leucodactylus. 



Scapteromys Waterhouse, 1837 Mus (Scapteromys) tumidus. 



Sigmodon Say & Ord, 1825 Sigmodon hispidum. 



Sigmodontomys J. A. Allen, 1897. Sigmodontomys alfari. 



Sitomys Fitzinger, 1867 Cricetus myoides. 



Thomasomys Coues, 1884 Hesperomys cinereus. 



Trinodontomys Rhoads, 1894. Sitomys insolatus. 



Tylomys Peters, 1866 Hesperomys (Tylomys) nudicaudus. 



Vesperimus Coues, 1874 Hesperomys (Vesperimus) leucopus. 



Vesperomys (' Coues ') Alston, 1880. Modified form of Vesperimus. 



Zygodontomys J. A. Allen, 1897 Oryzomys cherriei. 



DENDROMYIN/E. 



Deiidromyinae ALSTON, Proo. Zool. Soc. London, 1876, p. 82. 

 Deomyinae LYDEKKER, in Flower & Lydekker's Mamm., Living & Ex 

 tinct, p. 473, 1891. 



Name, authority, and date. Type or included species. 



Bench omus A. Smith, 1829 Dendronms typus. 



Deomys Thomas, 1888 Deomys ferrugineus. 



Leimacomys 2 Matschie, 1893.. Leimacomys biittneri. 



Malacothrix Wagner, 1843 New name for Otomys Smith, 1834. 



t Otomys Smith, 1834 Otomys typicus, O. albicaudatus. 



Steatomys Peters, 1846.. Steatomys pratensis. 



GERBILLIN/E. 



Gerbillina GRAY, Thomson's Ann. Philos., XXVI, p. 342, Nov., 1825. 

 G-erbillidae DE KAY, Nat. Hist. New York, Zool., pt. I, pp. xv, 70, 1842. 



Name, authority, and date. Type or included species. 



Amphiaulacomys Lataste, 1882. Rhombomys pallidus. 



Dipodillus Lataste, 1881 Gerbillus simoni. 



Endecapleura Lataste, 1882. . . Gerbillus garamantis. 



Gerbillus Desmarest, 1804 Gerbillus segyptius, G. canadensis, 



G. pyramidum. 

 Hendecapleura Thomas, 1883.. Emended form for Endecapleura. 



Amended to Rhithrodon (Lydekker, 1891), Rithrodon (Agassiz, 1846). 

 2 Emended to Limacomys (Lydekker, 1894). 



