184 allien — N^mnes of South American Mmnmals. 



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

 usually given, but Schinz, Kuhl, or Temminek. 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 RJnnolojyJvus ecmidatus Schinz, so that the name 

 Desmodus rufus Wied should give place to Desmodus ecavdatits 

 (Schinz). Felis ?/i«W?' Schinz, 1821, antedates Felis macro ura 

 Wied, 1826. Canis azaro' Wied, 1826, is also antedated by 

 Canis brasiliensis Schinz, 1821, although the name (Jams 

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

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

 Jaguar, previously named Felis rii(/ra by Erxleben which Wied 

 finally did not see fit to designate by a technical name. But 

 Felis hrasiliensis Schinz renders untenable Felis hrasilienxis F. 

 Cuvier, 1828, applied to another animal. 



It may be further noted in this connection that in all pi'oba- 

 bility Vespertilio villosissi/nus E. (leoffroy, 1807, based on the 

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

 the Bat named Ves2yertilio honariensis Lesson & Garnot, 1820, 

 and now commonly known as Lasiur'us Ixniariensis, but which 

 should stand as Dasiurus villosissimifs. That Azara's Chauve- 

 souris septieme is not referable to the Dasiurus 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 X. borealis. 



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

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

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

 have escaped notice. Gray divided the genus 1^amj)i/rus into 

 three genera, which he named Yampyrus, Istiophorus, and 

 'Tonatia. T^?m/)y?•^^s is restricted to Y. spiectrum;, IsPiophnnis 

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

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

 type and only species Y. bidens Spix, and is thus the exact 

 equivalent of Mr. Thomas's subgenus Yampi/ressa (1900). 

 These divisions of Yainptjrus 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 (rf. Proc. Biol. See. Wash. XII, 1898, p. 111). 



