210 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 



. Family MUSTELIDAE. 

 Subfamilv Luteixae. 



Genus LATAX Gloger. 



1827. Ldtax Glogee, Nova acta phys. med. acad. caes. Leop.- 

 Carol., XIII, pt. II, p. 511. T^ije. — X«<;'« manna Erxlebex=: 

 3histela hit r is Lixnaeus. 



Latax lutris (Linnaeus). 



1,758. [^Mustehi] lutris Linnaeus, Syst. nat., x ed., i, p. 45. 

 1885. Enhydris lutris True, Proc. L'. S. nat. mus., vii (1884), 



p. 609. 1885. 

 1885. Latax lutris Stejneger, Deutscli. geograpli. blatter, 



viii, p. 253. 

 Type locality. — Coasts of Bering Sea. 



Genus LUTRA Brisson. 



1762. Lutra Brisson, Regn. anini., ii ed., p. 201. Type. — 

 Liitra Brisson = JIustela Intra Linnaeus. 



According to Trouessart (Catal. mamm., pt. in, p. 453, 1897) 

 the terms applied to genera by Brisson are monomial specific 

 names without status in the Linnaean binomial system of nomen- 

 clature. If this view be adopted the generic name Lutra was 

 first used by Erxleben (Syst. regni anim., i, p. 445, 1777, type Lu- 

 tra rulijaris Erxleben ^r J/?<6-;e^« lutra Linnaeus). 



Lutra annectens Major. 



1885. Lutra felina and I^vtra hrasiliensis Teue, Proc. X . S. 

 nat. mus., vii (1884), p. 609. 1885. 



