12 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 



1799. [Tatu] novemcinctics Bluaienbach, Haadb. der Natur- 



gesch., p, 73. 

 1885. Tatusia novemcinctus True, Proc. U. S. nat. mus., 



VII (1884), p. 588. 1885. 

 Type locality. — Brazil. 



Order UNGULATA. 

 Suborder Aetiodactyla. 



Family TAYASSUIDAE. 



Genus TAYASSU Fischer. 



1814. Tayassu Fischer, Zoognosia, iii, p. 284. Type. — 

 Tayassu pecari Fischer, = Sus alhirostris Illiger. 



For use of this name in place of Dicotyhs (Cuvier, R^gne ani- 

 mal, I, p. 237, 1817) see Palmer, Proc. biol. soc. Washington, xi, p. 

 174, June 9, 1897. 



Tayassu angulatum (Cope) . 



1889. Dicotyles angulatus Cope, Amer. nat., xxiii, p. 147. 

 P'ebruary, 1889. 



1898. T[((yassu'\ angulatus Bangs, Proc. biol. soc. Washing- 

 ton XII, p. 164. August 10, 1898. 



Type locality. — Guadelupe River, Texas. 



Tayassu angulatum sonoriense (Mearns). 



1897. Dicotyles angulatus sonoriensis Mearns. Prelimi- 

 nary diagnoses of new mammals of the genera Mephitis, 

 Dorcelaplius and Dicotyles from the Mexican border of the 



