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Arctodon—-Continued. 
Type (species not named), from Nebraska Territory. 
Extinct. Based on ‘‘ three broken teeth, consisting of the body of a canine and 
that of two posterior molars."' 
Arctodon: dpkros, bear; 08v —08 00s, tooth—so called on the supposition that 
the teeth ‘‘belonged to an animal closely allied to the genus Ursus." 
Arctodus Lripy, 1854. Ferze, Ursidee. 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1854, No. III, 90; Lerpy, in Holmes’ Post-Pleiocene 
Foss. South Carolina, 115-116, pl. xxut, figs. 3-4, 1860; Hay, Cat. Foss. Vert. 
N. Am., Bull. 179, U. S. Geol. Surv., 763, 1902. 
Type: Arctodus pristinus Leidy, from the Pleistocene sands of Ashley River, near 
Ashley Ferry, South Carolina. 
Extinct. Based on the crown of a second lower molar. 
Arctodus: &piroc, bear; dd0vs, tooth—from the resemblance of the molar to 
that of a bear. 
Arctogale Kaup, 1829. Ferze, Mustelidee. 
Entw.-Gesch. und Natürl. Syst. Europ. Thierwelt, I, 30, 1829. 
Species: Mustela erminea Linnzeus, and M. boccamela Bechstein, from Europe. 
Arctogale: &pKros, bear; yady, weasel. 
Arctogale PETERS, 1863. Ferz, Viverride. 
Handb. Zool., I, 6ter Bogen, 98, Sept., 1863 (unpublished?); PETERS, in Carus & 
Gerstaecker's Handb. Zool. I, 126, 1868-75; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lon- 
don, 1864, 542-543; Cat. Carn., Pachyderm., & Edentate Mamm. Brit. Mus., 
75-76, 1869. 
Peters's original type was Paradoxurus boiei Müller, but Gray, who published 
the genus in 1864, gaveas type Paradoxurus trivirgatus Gray, from the Moluccas. 
** * E have formed this into a genus, on account of the smallness of the teeth and 
the protraction of the palate.’—Peters’s letter, Nov. 11, 1864. I had already 
distinguished the genus, but gladly adopt Dr. Peters’s unpublished name to 
prevent the useless increase of generic names." (Gray, P. Z. S., 1864, 543.) 
Name preoccupied by Arctogale Kaup, 1829, a genus of Mustelid:e. Replaced by 
Arctogalidia Merriam, 1897. 
Arctogale: &pKtos, bear; yadn, weasel. 
Arctogalidia Merriam, 1897. Fere, Viverride. 
Science, new ser., V, No. 112, p. 302, Feb. 19, 1897. 
New name for Arctogale Peters, 1863, which is preoccupied by Arctogale Kaup, 
1829, a genus of Mustelidee. Type: Paradoxurus trivirgatus Gray, from the 
Moluccas. 
Arctogalidia: &pKros, bear;+ Galidia. 
Arctoidotherium (Bravarp MS.) Lvpekkzn, 1885. Ferze, Urside. 
LvpEkxrn, Cat. Foss. Mamm. Brit. Mus., I, 157, 1885. 
Name quoted by Lydekker as a synonym of Arctotherium Bravard, 1857. 
Extinet. 
Arctoidotherium: &pKtos, bear; &200c, form; 67piov, wild beast. 
Arctomys ScHREBER, 1780. Glires, Sciuridee. 
Sáugthiere, pls. ccvrr-cexr, 1780; ibid., text, IV, 721-743, 1782; GwELIN, Lin- 
nzus' Syst. Nature, ed. XIII, 141, 1788. 
Species figured on the 5 plates: Arctomys marmota, A. monax, A. bobac, A. empetra, 
and A. citillus, all from Europe except A. monax and A. empetra, which are 
from North America. 
Name antedated by Marmota Frisch, 1775. 
Arctomys: &pkros, bear; 4/06, mouse. 
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