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Ateles—Continued. 
Species, 5: teles pentadactylus Geoffroy, from Guiana; A. paniscus Geoffroy 
=Simia paniscus Linnswus, type), A. arachnoides Geoffroy, A. belzebuth 
Geoffroy (nec Simia belzebul Linnzeus), from South America; and A. policomos, 
from ‘Sierra Leone.’ 
Ateles: &reAns, imperfect—in allusion to the absence of a thumb. 
Ateleus G. Fiscner, 1813. Primates, Cebid:e. 
Zoognosia, II, 529-532, 1813. 
Emendation of Ateles Geoffroy, 1806. ‘‘Ateles, Geoffroy St. Hilaire, « redezos, s. 
r&Àcos, perfectus, et @ privativo; (nomen itaque, manus imperfectas indicans, 
scribendum esset, Afelius, s. Ateleus, quam etymologiam seeuti sumus’’?— 
FISCHER). 
Atelocheirus E. Grorrroy, 1806. Primates, Cebidee. 
Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, VII, 272, 1806. 
Atelochirus VAN DER HoEvEN, Handboek der Dierkunde, 2d ed., IT, 1048, 1855; 
Cougs, Century Dict., I, 361, 362, 1889 (under Ateles). 
Name used only in the description of Ateles belzebuth Geoffroy (not Simia belzebul 
Linneeus), from South America. ‘‘Same as Ateles.’’? (Cours.) 
Atelocheirus: atedrs, imperfect; yezp, hand—in allusion to the absence of a 
thumb. 
Atelodus (subgenus of Rhinoceros) Pome, 1858. Ungulata, Rhinocerotide. 
** Ann. Soc. Lit. Auvergne, XXVI, 114, 1853”’ (fide LypeKKer, Cat. Foss. Mamm. 
Brit. Mus., III, 91, 1886); Powzr, Cat. Méth. Vert. Foss. Bassin de la Loire, 
78-80, 1854; Gervais, Zool. et Pal. Francaises, 2ó6me éd., 89, 1859 (under 
Celodonta); W. L. ScLATER, Mamm. 8. Africa, I, 297, 1900 (type given as R. 
elatus). 
Species, 7: Rhinoceros elatus Croizet et Jobert, from the Pliocene of Perrier, France; 
R. leptorhinus Cuvier, from the vicinity of Issoire, France; R. ticheorhinus 
Fischer, from Siberia; Atelodus aymardi Pomel, from Haute-Loire, France; 
and also three recent species, A. bicornis Linnseus, R. keitloa Smith, and R. 
simus Burchell, from Africa. (Pomet, l. c., 1854.) 
Atelodus: ateAns, imperfect; óóo)c, tooth—in allusion to the incisors and 
canines, which are rudimentary or wanting. 
Atheles (see Ateles). Primates, Cebidze. 
Atherurus (‘G. Cuvier’) F. Cuvrgn, 1829. Glires, Hystricide. 
[‘Les Atherures’ G. Cuvier, Régne Anim., 2éme éd., I, 215, 1829.] 
F. Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat., LIX, 483-484, 1829; Vorat, Cuvier’s Thierreich, 
I, 243-244, 1831; GrocEn, Hand- u. Hilfsbuch Naturgesch., pp. xxxi, 100, 1841. 
Atherura W ArTERHOUSE, Nat. Hist. Mamm., II, 470-479, 1848. 
Type: Hystrix fasciculata Shaw, from Malacca. 
Atherurus: à05»0, the beard of an ear of corn; ova, tail—in allusion to the 
pencil of flattened scaly bristles at the tip of the tail; whence the common 
name ‘brush-tailed porcupine.’ 
Athrodon OssonN, 1887. Marsupialia, Amphitheriide. 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Nov. 1, 1887,* 290, fig. 3 in text. 
New name for Stylodon Owen, 1866, which is preoccupied by Stylodon Beck, 1837, 
a genus of Mollusca. 
Name preoccupied by Athrodon Sauvage, 1880, a genus of Pisces. Replaced by 
Kurtodon Osborn, Nov., 1887. 
Extinct. Based on a maxilla. 

*This paper was presented for publication June 28, 1887, but was not issued until 
November 1, so that the correction for the preoccupied name appeared almost as 
soon as the name itself, 
