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so that the author for the name is, in many cases, not Wied, as 

 usually given, but Schinz, Kuhl, or Temminck. In some cases, 

 however, the names used by these authors differ from those 

 adopted later by Wied; for example, Desmodus rufus Wied is 

 antedated by Rhinoloplms ecaudatus Schinz, so that the name 

 Desmodus rufus Wied should give place to Desmodus ecaudatus 

 (Schinz). Felis wiedi Schinz, 1821, antedates Fells macroura 

 Wied, 1826. Canis azarw Wied, 1826, is also antedated by 

 Canis brasiliensis Schinz, 1821, although the name Canis 

 brasiliensis is attributed by Schinz to "Neuwied". Schinz also 

 employes the name Felis brasiliensis (ex Wied) for the Black 

 Jaguar, previously named Felis nu/ra by Erxleben which Wied 

 finally did not see n't to designate by a technical name. But 

 Felis brasiliensis Schinz renders untenable Felis brasiliensis F. 

 Cuvier, 1828, applied to another animal. 



It may be further noted in this connection that in all proba 

 bility Vespertilio villosissimus E. Geoffroy, 1807, based on the 

 Chauve-souris septieme of Azara, will have to be adopted for 

 the Bat named Vespertilio bonariensis Lesson & Garnot, 1820, 

 and now commonly known as Lasiurus bonariensis, but which 

 should stand as IJasiurus villosissimus. That Azara's Chauve- 

 souris septieme is not referable to the I^asiurus cinereus group, 

 as stated by Mr. Thomas (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) Vol. 

 VIII, Nov., 1901, p. 435), is evident from its small size, which 

 barely equals that of an average example of L*. borealis. 



As is well known, Dr. J. E. Gray gives many new names to 

 mammals in Volume V (1827) of Griffith's 'Animal Kingdom', 

 most of which are duly cited in synonomy, but some appear to 

 have escaped notice. Gray divided the genus ~\ r umpyrus into 

 three genera, which he named Vampyrus, Istiophorus^ and 

 Tonatia. Vctmpyrus is restricted to l r . spectrum; Istiophorus 

 is preoccupied by Lacepede for a genus of fishes, and has been 

 replaced by Gray's latter name Trachops; Tonatid has for its 

 type and only species T 7 ^ bidens Spix, and is thus the exact 

 equivalent of Mr. Thomas's subgenus Yampyressa (1900). 

 These divisions of Vampyrus established by Gray in 1827 ap 

 pear to have been overlooked by later systematic writers.* 



*Since writing the above my attention has been called to the fact that 

 Dr. T. S. Palmer, in 1898, called attention to Gray's treatment of Vam- 

 pyrus (cf. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. XII, 1898, p. 111). 



