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DINOMYID^. 



Dinomyidae Alston, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1876, p. 96. 

 Dinomys Peters, 1873 Dinomys branickii. 



DIPODIDiB.i 



Dipodina Bonaparte, "Synopsis Vert. Syst., 1837." 



Dipodidae Waterhouse, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., X, p. 203, Nov., 1842. 



Dipodae Gervais, in D'Orbigny's Diet. Univ. d'Hist. Nat., XI, p. 203, 



1849. 

 Dipsidae Gray, London Medical Repository, XV, p. 303, April 1, 1821. 

 J Qerboidae Waterhouse, Charles worth's Mag. Nat. Hist., Ill, p. 186, 



April, 1839. 

 Jlerboidae Gray, Thomson's Am. Philos., XXVI, p. 341, Nov., 1825. 

 t Jaculina Carus, Handbuch Zool., p. 101, 1868. 

 J Jaculidae Gill, Arrangement Fam. Mamm., p. 20, Nov., 1872. 

 SminthinaB Alston, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1876, p. 80. 

 Sminthidae Schulze, Schrift. Nat. Ver. Harz., Wernigerode, V,p. 24, 1890. 

 Zapodidae Coues, Bull. U. S. Geol. & Geog. Surv. Terr., I, 2d ser.. No. 

 5, p. 253, 1875. 



Name, authority, and date. Type or included species. 



Allactaga Cuvier, 1836 Dipus allactaga. 



Beloprymnus Gloger, 1841 New name for Allactaga. 



Cuniculus Brisson, 1762. ...... Dipus allactaga. 



Dipus Schreber, 1782 . . Dipus jaculus, D. sagitta, D. cafer, D. 



meridianus, D. tamaricinus. 

 EuchoreutesW.L.Sclater,1891. Euchoreutes naso. 



f Halticus Brandt, 1844 Dipus halticus. 



Haltomys Brandt, 1844 Dipus aegyptius, D. hirtipes, D. mac- 



rotarsus, D. mauritanicus. 



Jaculus Erxleben, 1777 Jaculus orientalis, J. giganteus, J. tor- 



ridarum. 



t Meriones Cuvier, 1825 Dipus americanus. 



Platycercomys Brandt, 1844. . Dipus platyurus. 



Pygeretmus Gloger, 1841 Dipus platyurus. 



Scarturua Gloger, 1841 4-toed species of Dipus. 



Scirteta Brandt, 1844 (?) 



Scirtetes Wagner, 1841 New name for Allactaga Cuvier. 



Scirtomys Brandt, 1844 Alactaga tetradactylus (=:Scarturus 



Gloger, 1841). 

 Scirtopoda Brandt, 1844 Dipus halticus, D. aegyptius, D. hirti- 

 pes, D. macrotarsus, D. mauritan- 

 icus (= Halticus + Haltomys). 



^Sminthus represents the subfamily Sminthinse, Zapus the Zapodinse, 

 and the other genera belong to the Dipodinse. 



