136 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Belosphys Corr, 1875. Cete, Platanistidze. 
Proc. Am. Philos. Soe., XIV, 364, Jan.-June, 1875. 
Besophys Atston, Zool. Record for 1875, XII, Mamm., 13, 1877. 
Type: Priscodelphinus spinosus Cope, from the Miocene of Maryland. 
Extinct. 
Belosphys: B£Aos, dart; OO PLS, the loin—in allusion to the spiniform lumbar 
diapoph yses. 
Beluga hRariNEsQUE, 1815. Cete, Delphinide. 
Analyse de la Nature, 60, 1815; Gray, Spicilegia Zoologica, 2, 1828; Lesson, 
Compl. CEuvres Buffon, Hist. Nat. Mamm. Ois. découv. depuis 1788, I, 191-196, 
440, 1828; Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., 106, 1843. 
New name for Delphinapterus Lacépóde, 1804. 
Beluga: Russian 65iyra, bieluga (from Obaviii, bieluii, white)—in allusion to the 
characteristic color of the animal. 
Benedenia Gray, 1864. Cete, Baleenidee. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, 211-215. 
Type: Benedenia knoxii Gray, from the North Sea. 
Benedenia: In honor of Pierre Joseph Van Beneden, 1801-1894, author of 
‘Description des Ossements Fossiles des environs d’ Anvers,’ and numerous 
papers on cetaceans. 
Berardiopsis Ponris, 1886. Cete, Physeterid:e. 
Mem. Reale Acc. Sci. Torino, 2* ser., XXXVII, 326-329, 1886; W. L. SCLATER, 
Zool. Record for 1886, XXIII, Mamm., pp. 30, 59, 1887. 
Type: Derardiopsis pliocaenus Portis, from the Pliocene of the valley of Asti, Italy. 
Extinct. 
Berardiopsis: Berurdius; Óvtc, appearance. 
Berardius DvvERNov, 1851. Cete, Physeteridze. 
Ann. Sci. Nat., Paris, 3e sér., XV, Zool., 41, 52-54, 68, pl. r, 1851. 
Berardus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865, 200. 
Type: Berardius arnuxii Duvernoy, from the port of Akaroa, near Banks Island, 
. New Zealand. 
Berardius: In honor of Captain (afterward Admiral) Bérard, of the French navy, 
in command of the corvette ‘Rhin’ during the voyage on which the type 
specimen was collected. 
Besophys (see Belosphys). Cete, Delphinidz. 
Bettongia Gray, 1837. Marsupialia, Macropodide. 
CHARLESWorTH’s Mag. Nat. Hist., I, 584, Nov., 1837; THomas, Cat. Marsup. & 
Monotrem. Brit. Mus., 1888, 104-114 (type fixed). 
Species, 3: Bettongia setosus Gray (= Hypsiprymnus cuniculus Ogilby, 1838, type), 
from Tasmania (Thomas); D. penicillata Gray, from Australia; and B. rufescens 
Gray, from New South Wales. 
Bettongia: Bettong, native name of a kangaroo. 
Bibos (subgenus? of Bos) Hopeson, 1887. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Bovidee. 
Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, VI, pt. 1, 499, 1837; pt. 1, No. 69, 745-750, pls. xvi, 
xxxIx, Sept., 1837; X, pt. 1, No. 114, pp. 449-452, Jan.-June, 1841; Écho du 
Monde Savant, Paris, IV, No. 308, p. 38, Feb. 10, 1838 (raised to generic rank); 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., I, 153, Apr., 1838. 
Type: Dibos subhemachalus Hodgson (changed to D. cavifrons in pt. 11), from the 
Saul Forest, Nepal, India. 
Bibos: Apparently a contraction of Bison -+- Bos. 
Bicunedens Hopason, 1868. Glires, Muridee, Microtinee. 
Hopason, in Gray’s Cat. Spec. & Drawings Mamm., Birds, ete., of Nepal and 
Tibet, Brit. Mus., 2d ed., 11, 1863, (synonym of Neodon sikimensis); BLAN- 
FORD, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, L, pt. u, No. 2, p. 110, July 30, 1881 (in 
synonymy ). 
