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Bayonia Barsoza pu BocacE, 1865. Insectivora, Potamogalidee. 
Proc. Zool. Soe. London, 1865, 402-404, 4 figs. in text. 
Type: Bayonia velox ( — Cynogale velox Du Chaillu), from ‘Le district du Duque de 
Braganga,’ Angola, West Africa. Name antedated by Potamogale Du Chaillu, 
1860. 
Bayonia: In honor of Lieut. Bayao, of the Portuguese army (?), who collected 
in Angola for the Lisbon Museum. 
Bdelygma (subgenus of Gelasinus) MArscniE, 1899. Chiroptera, Pteropodidee. 
Fledermáuse Berliner Mus. Naturkunde, Lief. I, Megachiroptera, 82, 84, 1899. 
Type: Harpyia major Dobson, from Neu Lauenburg, Bismarck Archipelago, East 
Indies. 
Bdelygma: fó£Avy ua, abomination, idol—probably from the peculiar and hid- 
eous face. 
Bdeogale Prrrrs, 1852. Fere, Viverride. 
Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., Berlin, 1852, 81-82; * Naturwiss. Reise nach 
Mossambique, Zool., I, Sáugeth., 119-125, Taf. xxvu—xxvu, 1852; THomas, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1882, 81-82 (type fixed). 
Beleogale M^nscHALL, Nomenclator Zool., Mamm., 3, 1873.+ 
Species: Bdeogale crassicauda Peters (type), (female) from Tette, and (male) from 
Boror (17°-18° S. lat.); and BB. puisa Peters, from Mossimboa (11? &. lat.), 
East Africa. 
Bdeogale: Pdéerv, to stink; aA», weasel—tfrom its characteristic odor. 
Belemnoziphius HvxrEv, 1864. Cete, Physeteridze. 
Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. London, X X, pt. rv, No. 80, pp. 392-395, pl. xix, Nov. 1, 
1864; Hav, Cat. Foss. Vert. N. Am., Bull. 179, U. S. Geol. Surv., 597, 1902 (type 
fixed). 
Species, 3: Ziphius longirostris F. Cuvier, from Paris, France; Dioplodon becanii 
Gervais & Van Beneden, from Antwerp, Belgium; and Belemnoziphius com- 
pressus Huxley (type), from the Red Crag, 3 miles east of Ipswich, Suffolk, 
England. 
Belemnoziphius: fBéAeuvov, dart; + Ziphius—in allusion to the extremity of the 
rostrum, which is ‘‘sharply pointed almost like the end of the guard of a 
Belemnite.”’ 
Beleogale (see Bdeogale). Fere, Viverride. 
Belideus. (subg. of Petaurus) WatERHOUsE, 1839. Marsupialia, Phalangeride. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, for 1838, 151-152, May, 1839; Nat. Hist. Mamm., I 
Marsup., 325-337, 1 fig. in text, 1846. 
Belidens W1EGMANN, Archiv Naturgesch., 1839, II, 418. 
Belidea Govrp, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1842, 11 (raised to generic rank); Ann. & 
Mag. Nat. Hist., X, 404, Dec., 1842. 
Type: Petaurus sciureus Desmarest (= Didelphys sciurea Shaw), from eastern 
Australia. 
Belideus: fB£Xos, dart, javelin—possibly in allusion to the anterior upper incisors, 
which are triangular in form. 
Beloprymnus, GLocEn, 1841. Glires, Dipodidee. 
Hand- u. Hilfsbuch Naturgesch., I, pp. xxxi, 106, 1841; THomas, Ann. & Mag. 
Nat. Hist., 6th ser., XV, 191, Feb. 1, 1895. 
Based on the species of Dipus with **5 toes, now named Alakdaga.”’ 
Beloprymnus: BéXos, arrow, dart; zoouva, stern—in allusion to the long tail, 
**man vergleicht diesen auch nicht unpassend mit einem Pfeile."  (GrocEm.) 
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* '*Sometimes quoted as Mitth. Ges. Nat. Freunde Berlin, 19th Nov., 1850, but I 
can not find that this was ever published."  (F. H. WATERHOUSE. ) 
+ Marschall quotes ‘‘Froriep’s Tagesbericht, 1850," but the name has not been 
found in this reference. 
