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Arizostus—Continued. 
Type: ‘‘Das Kahlschwanzige Cabassu, Dasypus gymnurus’’? (=D. unicinctus 
Linn:eus), from Brazil. (See Cabassous MeMurtrie, 1831.) 
Arizostus: @pi-, intensive prefix; words, girded—in allusion to the bands of the 
carapace. 
Arminiheringia AmMecuino, 1902. Marsupialia, Borhyzenide ( Arminiheringiidz). 
3ol. Acad. Nac. Cien. Córdoba, XVII, 44-46, May, 1902 (sep. pp. 42-43). 
Species: Arminiheringia auceta Ameghino, and A. cultrata Ameghino, from the 
Notostylops beds of Patagonia. 
Extinet. 
Arminiheringia: In honor of Dr. Hermann von Ihering, director of the Museu 
Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil. 
Armodillo Wacxrn, 1763. Edentata, Dasypodidee. 
** Beschreibung des Bareuther Naturalienkabinets, 1765" (fide AGAss1z, Nomen- 
clator Zool., Mamm., 3, 1842); Acassiz, Index Univ., 34, 1846; 2d ed., 98, 1848. 
Original reference not seen. 
Armodillo: Sp. armadillo, dim. of armado, armed—in allusion to the carapace. 
Armodillo Esnernarp, 1769. Edentata, Dasypodidee. 
Versuch eines neuen Entwurfs der Thiergesch., Halle, 31, 285, 1769. 
Species included: Der ‘‘gepanzerte Ameisenfresser, verschiedenen Teufelgen 
das mit dem Schweinskopf ( Tutua porcinus, Armodillo orientalis) das mit 
dem Hundskopt ( Tatu-apara, Armodillo nothus, pedibus altis)" (p. 31). 
Arnee ? , 1845. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Bovide. 
London Encyclopedia, X XII, 752, 1845 (art. Zoology). 
The genus is described in an unsigned article, without mention of species, but is 
evidently based on Bos arnee of India. 
Arnee: Hindoo «rna (fem. erm), name of the wild Indian buffalo. 
Aroethrus WarERHOUSE, 1843. Glires, Anomalurid:e. 
Proe. Zool. Soc. London, for 1842, 124 footnote, Jan., 1843. 
Name provisionally proposed to replace Anomalurus Waterhouse, 1843, in case 
the latter should prove to be preoccupied. 
Aroxthrus: @pow, to plow; aifpa, air—irom the animals ability to sail in the 
air like a flying squirrel. 
Arretotherium Dovauass, 1901. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Agriochceridee. 
Trans. Am. Philos. Soc., new ser., XX, pt. 11, 269-278, pl. 1x figs. 1-3, Dec. 5, 
1901 (sep. pp. 33-42). 
Aretotherium LyDEKKER, Zool. Record for 1901, X X XVIII, Mamm., 36, 1902. 
Arctotherium LYDEKKER, ibid., Index New Genera, p. 2, 1902. 
Type: Arretotherium acridens Douglass, from the White River Oligocene ( Black- 
tail Deer Creek beds), 25 miles southeast of Dillon, Madison County, Montana. 
Extinct. Based on most of the superior dentition and parts of the skull and 
skeleton. 
Arretotherium: a&ppnros, mysterious; 07oíov, wild beast—in allusion to the 
uncertain relationships of the genus. 
Arrhinolemur (see Arhinolemur). Primates, ? 
Arsinoitherium BEADNELL, 1902. Ungulata, Proboscidea, r 
Nature, LXV, No. 1691, pp. 494—495, figs. 1, 2 in text, Mar. 27, 1902. 
Type: Arsinoitherium zitteli Beadnell, from the desert bounding the Fayum de- 
pression, Egypt. 
?xtinct. 
Arsinoitherium: Arsinoé; 05npiov, wild beast; ‘‘Queen Arsinoé, after whom the 
Fayum was called in Ptolemaic times." (BrapNELL.) Arsinoé, daughter of 
Ptolemy I, King of Egypt, was born about 316 B.C. She married Lysimachus, 
King of Thrace, and after his death became the wife of Ptolemy Philadelphus. 
