On the Bandicoots of Nuyts Archipelago &ce. 677 
Taking Nomeris first, as being the clearest case, I confess 
I see no way of putting it aside. Hven its being a misprint 
is purely an assumption, while the sentence in which it is 
founded is perfectly properly worded, with a genotype 
(Phocena melus, misprint for Ph. melas, a recognized synonym 
of Ph. phocenoides) and a couple of words of diagnosis, so that 
there can be no doubt whatever as to what animal it applies to, 
or as to the technical validity of its foundation. It should, 
therefore, be recognised as a name having technical status, 
and, being earlier than Neophocena, would naturally invalidate 
that. We may believe Vomeris was a misprint, but there is 
no evidence to that effect, and, even if it lad been said to be so 
by its author, that would not remove its technical validity. 
But there is an earlier name, Meomeri’s. In Gray’s ‘ List 
of the Osteological Specimens in the British Museum,’ 1847, 
this name appears in the Systematic Index on p. xii, in 
its proper place next to Phocena, with the species-name phoce- 
noides, and there being only one phocenoides in the family 
Delphinidee, it is clear what is the genotype of Meomeris, In 
the body of the work (p. 36) we have “ The Finless Porpesse, 
Meomeris phocenoides,” placed as the only species of the genus 
Neomeris. It may, therefore, be assumed that Meomeris is a 
misprint for the earlier name Neomeris, but none the less it is 
put in too valid a way to be ignored, having both type-species 
and a descriptive word. I therefore maintain, on the lines 
used in dealing with Dryomys, that Aleomeris should be con- 
sidered as having full technical status, and that, instead of the 
much later Neophocena, it should be used for the Finless- 
backed Porpoise, whose full name would thus be Aeameris 
phocenoides. 
LXXXIV.—The Bandicoots of Nuyts Archipelago, S. Aus- 
tralia, and of Cape York, N. Queensland. By OLDFIELD 
‘THOMAS. 
(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 
Pror. F. Woop Jones, of Adelaide, has sent to the British 
Museum two spirit-specimens and four picked-up skulls of 
the Bandicoot which inhabits the Nuyts Archipelago, where 
also he had previously obtained the interesting Murine 
Leporillus jonest, described by me last year. In sending them, 
he has drawn my attention to certain characters in which they 
