89 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
ZEluropsis—Continued. 
Type: -Eluropsis annectans Lydekker from the Pliocene of the Siwalik Hills of 
Asnot, Punjab, India. 
Extinct. Based on the posterior part of a right ramus. 
Aeluropsis: adAovpos, cat; Ors, appearance. 
ZEluropus (see Ailuropus). : Feree, Ursidee. 
ZElurotherium Apams, 1896. Ferz, Felide. 
Am. Journ. Sci., 4th ser., I, 442, 443, June, 1896; MarrHEWw, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 
Hist., N. Y., XII, 41, 1899; Hay, Cat. Foss. Vert. N. Am., Bull. 179, U. S. Geol. 
Surv., 778, 1902. 
Type: Patriofelis leidyanus Wortman, from the Bridger Eocene of Wyoming. 
Extinct. Based on a ‘‘jaw fragment containing the third and fourth pre- 
molars and the first molar or sectorial." 
Hlurotherium: aAovposz, cat; Onpiov, wild beast. The genus ‘‘may be consid- 
ered as a probable ancestral form of all the Machzerodontine and brings 
them a step nearer the Creodonts." (ADAms.) 
Aelurus, ZElurus (see Ailurus). Fer, Procyonidee. 
Aeorestes l'rrzixcEn, 1870. Chiroptera, Vespertilionidee. 
Sitzungsber. Math.-Nat. Cl. K. Akad. Wiss., Wien, LXII, Abth. 1, 427-436, Oct., 
1870 (sep. pp. 75-84). 
Species 4, from South America: Vespertilio villosissimus Geoffroy, and V. albescens 
Geoffroy, from Paraguay; V. nigricans Maximilian, from the Rio Iritiba, Brazil; 
and J”. levis Geoffroy, from Brazil. 
Aeorestes: alwpéw, to hover or flit about—in allusion to its manner of flight. 
Aeosciurus (see Eosciurus). Glires, Sciuridee. 
ZEpeomys Tuowas, 1898. Glires, Muridze, Cricetinz. 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 7th ser., I, 452, June 1, 1898. 
Type: Oryzomys (?) lugens Thomas, from La Loma del Morro (altitude, 3,000 
meters), near Merida, Venezuela. 
JEpeomys: etzos, aizeos height; 0s, mouse—in allusion to its elevated habitat, 
the type having been collected at an altitude of about 9,000 feet. 
Aepyceros SuNDEVALL, 1847. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Bovidee. 
K. Vetensk. Akad. Handlingar, for 1845-1846, 271, 1847. 
Type: Antilope melampus Lichtenstein, from central Africa. 
Aepyceros: atnvs, high; Kégas, horn—from the long, lyrate, wide-spreading 
horns of the male. 
ZEpyprymnus Gannop, 1875. Marsupialia, Macropodid:e. 
Proe. Zool. Soc. London, 1875, 59; THomas, Cat. Marsup. and Monotrem. Brit. 
Mus., 102-104, 1888. 
Type: Bettongia rufescens Gray, from New South Wales, Australia. 
Epyprymnus: &izvs, high; mpvuva, stern—in allusion to the disproportionate 
development of the thighs and hind legs. (Compare Hypsiprymnus. ) 
Aesthenodon (see Asthenodon). Marsupialia, Amphitheriid:e. 
Aesurus Rarinesque, 1815. Ferie, Procyonide. 
Analyse de ia Nature, 59, 1815. 
New name for Kinkajou Geoffroy = Kinkajou Lacépéde, 1799 (‘Aesurus R. Kinkajou 
Geof.’ ). 
Aesurus: d»6vpos, light as air. 
Aethiops (subgenus of Cercopithecus) Martin, 1841. Primates, Cercopithecide. 
Gen. Introd. Nat. Hist. Mammif. Anim., 506-508, 1841; Grorrroy, Dict. Univ. 
Est: Nate, 1111297: 1843: 
Based on ‘the three White-eyelid Monkeys’ of Africa. 
Aethiops: Latin aethiops, Ethiopian—in allusion to its habitat. 
