12 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 



1799. [Tatu] novemcinctus BLUMENBACH, Handb. der Natur- 



gesch., p. 73. 

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



vii (1884), p. 58-8. 1885. 

 TYPE LOCALITY. Brazil. 



Order UNGULATA. 

 Suborder AKTIODACTYLA. 



Family TAYASSITIDAE. 



Genus TAYASSU Fischer. 



1814. Tayassu FISCHER, Zoognosia, in, p. 284. Type. 

 Tayassu pecari FISCHER, Sus albirostris ILLIGER. 



For use of this name in place of Dicotyles (CuviER, Regne 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., xxm, p. 147. 

 February, 1889. 



1898. T[ayassu] dngulatus 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, 

 Dorcelaphus and Dicotyles from the Mexican border of the 



