ADELOTHERIUM —ADIASTALTUS 79 
Adclotherium AMEGHINO, 1887. Ungulata, ? 
Enum. Sist. Especies Mamif. Fós. Patagonia Austral, p. 20, Dec., 1887; Act. Acad. 
Nac. Cien., Córdoba, VI, 619-620, 1889. 
Type: Adelotherium scabrosum Ameghino, from the lower Tertiary of southern 
Patagonia. 
Extinct. Based on the anterior part of the lower jaw. 
Adelotherium: «dynos, unknown, obscure; 67p£ov, wild beast—‘‘ Mamifero . 
cuyas afinidades son difficiles de precisar pues, solo se conoce un fragmento de 
sinfisis de la mandibula.”’ 
Adelphomys Amrcutino, 1887. Glires, Octodontid:e. 
Enum. Sist. Especies Mamíf. Fós. Patagonia Austral, p. 10, Dec., 1887; Act. Acad. 
Nac. Cien., Córdoba, VI, 139, 1889. 
Type: Adelphomys candidus Ameghino, from the lower Tertiary of southern 
Patagonia. 
Extinct. 
Adelphomys: &SeA Pos, brother; “0s, mouse—from its resemblance to Myopotamus 
and Neoreomys. 
Adelphotherium AmEGHINO, 1887. Ungulata, Toxodontia, Nesodontid:e. 
Enum. Sist. Especies Mamíf. Fos. Patagonia Austral, pp. 16-17, Dec., 1887. 
Type: Adelphotherium ligatum Ameghino, from the lower Tertiary of southern 
Patagonia. 
Extinct. 
Adelphotherium: &deA@os, brother; 6yptov, wild beast—from its resemblance to 
Protoxodon. 
Adenonotus Dnookxs, 1828. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Tayassuidee. 
Prodromus Synop, Animalium, comprising a Catalogue Raisonné of the Zootom- 
ical Collection of Joshua Brookes, 8vo, London, 11, 1828 (previous to May). 
New name for Dicotyles Cuvier, 1817. "The reference is as follows: ‘‘ Peccaries 
(Genus Adenonotus Brookes, Dicotyles Cuv., Sus tajassu Linn. )." 
Antedated by Tayassu G. Fischer, 1814; and by Notophorus G. Fischer, 1817. 
Adenonotus: &87)v, &dévos, gland; vOroc, back—from the dorsal gland. 
Adenota Gray, 1847. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Bovid:e. 
List Osteol. Spec. Brit. Mus., pp. xv, 146, 1847; Knowsley Menagerie, 14, Tab. 
14-15, 1850. 
Type: Antilope kob Erxleben, from Gambia, West Africa. 
Adenota: à87)v, áó£vos, gland; v@ros, back—in allusion to the small gland on 
the back. Compare Adenonotus Brookes, 1828. 
Adeotherium (see Adrotherium ). Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Anoplotheriid:ze. 
Adianthus AwEcnHiNo, 1891. Ungulata, Litopterna, Adianthidee. 
Revista Argentina Hist. Nat., I, Entr. 3a, 134-135, fig. 31, June 1, 1891. 
Adiantus AMEGHINO, Enum. Syn. Mamm. Fos. Eocénes Patagonie, p. 27, Feb., 
1894. 
Type: Adianthus bucatus [sic] Ameghino, from the Lower Eocene of southern 
Patagonia. 
Extinct. 
Adianthus: ** Par erreur, écrire Adiantus, @diarvros, sec" (AMEGHINO). 
Adiastaltus AwEganiNo, 1893. Monotremata ( Adiastaltidze). 
Revista Jard. Zool. Buenos Aires, 1, 77, Mar. 15, 1893; Revue Scientifique, LI, 
No. 23, 731, June 10, 1893. 
Type: Adiastaltus habilis Ameghino, from the Eocene beds of southern Patagonia. 
Extinct. Based on a humerus. ‘‘ Je considére ce mammitfére . . . comme un 
monotréme présentant quelques caract?res d' Edenté.”’ 
Adiastaltus: à61&6raAros, not clearly distinguished, i. e. ambiguous—in allusion 
to its systematic position, 
