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Barangia—Continued. 
Species: Barangia sumatrana Gray (=Lutra barang F. Cuvier), from Sumatra; 
and B.? nepalensis Gray, from Nepal, India. 
Barangia: Barang, native Sumatran name of an otter. 
Barbastella Gray, 1821. Chiroptera, Vespertilionid:e. 
London Med. Repos., XV, 300, Apr. 1, 1821. 
Barbastellus Gray, Zool. Journ., IT, 248, July, 1825; Thompson’s Ann. Philos., 
XX VI, 339, Nov., 1825; Philos. Mag., new ser., VI, 31, 34, July, 1829; Jar- 
dine’s Mag. Zool. & Bot., II, 494, 1838; Kaup, Entw. Gesch. & Natürl. Syst. 
Europ. Thierw., I, 95, 96, 1829; Bonapartrr. Cat. Method. Mamm. Europei, 
21, 1845. 
Type: Vespertilio barbastellus Schreber, from Burgundy, France. 
Barbastella: French barbastelle, from Lat. barba, beard. ‘‘L’animal... à la 
lévre supérieure si renflée de chaque cóté, qu'il semble au premier coup d’ceil 
qu'il y ait un bouquet de barbe ou des moustaches."  (DavBENTON, Hist. Acad. 
Roy. Sci. avec Mém. Math. et Phys., for 1759, 377, 1765.) 
Barbastellus Gray, 1831. Chiroptera, Vespertilionidze. 
Zool. Miscellany, 38, 1831; Dossow, Cat. Chiroptera Brit. Mus., 171, 175, 1878 
(in synonymy ). 
Type: Barbastellus pacificus Gray, from the ‘Islands of the southern Pacific,’ 
probably near Australia. 
This name belongs to a genus distinct from Barbastellus Gray, 1821, but it is 
antedated by Nyctophilus Leach, 1821. 
Barytherium AxpREws, 1901. Ungulata, 
Nature, vol. 64, p. 577, Oct. 10, 1901. 
New name for Bradytherium Andrews, Sept., 1901, which is preoccupied by Bra- 
dytherium Grandidier, Mar., 1901, a genus of Edentata. 
Extinct. 
Barytherium: fas, heavy; 077p£ov, wild beast—in allusion to its size. 
Basaris (see Bassaris). Fer:e, Procyonidee. 
Basilosaurus Haran, 1834. Cete, Basilosauridze. 
Trans. Am. Philos. Soc., new ser., IV, 397-403, 1834. 
Type, species not named (— Zeuglodon cetoides Owen, 1841), from Tertiary forma- 
tions along the Ouachita River, about 50 miles south of Monroe, Ouachita 
Parish, Louisiana. Basilosaurus antedates Zeuglodon Owen, 1839. 
Extinct. Based on several fragments of vertebre. 
Basilosaurus: Padidev’s, king; Gatpos, lizard—‘king of the saurians,’ from its 
large size and supposed reptilian affinities. 
Bassaricyon ALLEN, 1876. Fer, Procyonide. 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1876, 20-23, pl. 1; 1877, 267—268, pl. 2. 
Type: Bassaricyon gabbii Allen, from Costa Rica. 
Bassaricyon: Bassaris; «vv, dog—irom its resemblance to Bassaris. 
Bassaris LicurENsTEIN, 1831. Ferz, Procyonide. 
Oken’s Isis, Jena, 1831, 512-513; Darstellung, pl. xii, 1833. 
Basaris Gray, List Osteol. Spec. Brit. Mus., pp. x, 14, 1847 (misprint). 
Type: Bassaris astuta Lichtenstein, from Mexico. 
Name preoccupied by Bassaris Hübner, 1816-21, a genus of Lepidoptera. Re- 
placed by Bassariscus Coues, 1887. 
Bassaris: facGGapís, fox. 
Bassariscus Cours, 1887. Ferze, Procyonid:e. 
Science, IX, 516, May 27, 1887; Rhoads, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., for 1893, 
413-418, Jan. 27, 1894. 
New name for Bassaris Lichtenstein, 1831, which is preoccupied by Bassaris Hüb- 
ner 1816-21, a genus of Lepidoptera. 
Bassariscus: Bacéoapis, fox, with dim. suffix. 
