216 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Damaliscus— Continued. 
New name for Damalis Gray, 1846, which is preoccupied by Damalis H. Smith, 
1827, a different genus of Bovidee. Thetypeisgiven as Antilope pygargus Pallas, 
from Cape Colony, while the type of Damalis Gray (here merely renamed) 
was Antilope lunata Burchell, from the Orange Free State (p. 51)! 
Damaliscus: Dim. of Damalis. * 
Damelaphus Cours, 1896. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Cervid:e. 
The Nation, LXII, 404, May 21, 1896; Banes, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 
XXVIII, 219, 1898 (quoted as a synonym). 
Lapsus for Dorcelaphus Gloger, 1841. The name occurs only in a review of 
Cory’s ‘Hunting and Fishing in Florida,’ in the statement: ‘‘We doubt not 
that the small deer of the peninsula [Florida] is equally entitled to recognition 
as Cariacus (or Damelaphus) fraterculus." | (Covzs.) 
Damelaphus: Dama 4- Elaphus. 
Danis (subgenus of Ursus) GRAv, 1825. Ferse, Urside. 
Ann. Philos., XXVI, 60, July, 1825; ibid., XXVI, 339, Nov., 1825 (raised to 
generic rank). 
Type: Ursus ferox Desmarest (= Ursus horribilis Ord), from the eastern slope of 
the Rocky Mountains, Montana. 
Name preoccupied by Danis Fabricius, 1808, a genus of Lepidoptera. 
Danis: davos, burnt, dry. Application not clear; the name may possibly refer 
to the color of the hair or to the character of the animal's habitat. 
Daphoenus Leipy, 1858. Ferze, Canide. 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., for 1852-53, No. x, 393-394, 1853. 
Daphanus Scorr, Princeton College Bull., II, No. 2, 37, Apr., 1890. 
Daphenus Hatcher, Mem. Carnegie Mus., I, 66-95, text figs. 1, 3-5, pls. xiv, 
XVI-xx, Sept., 1902. ; 
Type: Daphoenus vetus Leidy, from the Oligocene (White River) of the Bad Lands 
of Nebraska. 
Extinct. Based on ‘“‘a cranium without the face, a fragment of a left upper 
maxilla containing the posterior three molars,’’ etc. 
Daphoenus: 8a oivós, blood-reeking—in allusion to the molars which resemble 
those of the wolf. 
Daptophilus Corr, 1873. Fer:, Felide. 
Palzont. Bull., No. 16, p. 2, Aug. 20, 1873; Ann. Rept. U.S. Geol. & Geog. Surv. 
Terr., VII, for 1873, 508, 1874. _ 
Type: Daptophilus squalidens Cope, from the Oligocene of Colorado. 
Extinct. 
Daptophilus: ó&zrc, to tear, to devour; Pidos, loving, fond of. 
Dasicyon (see Dusicyon). Fere, Canidze. 
Dasurus (see Dasyurus). Marsupialia, Dasyuride. 
Dasycercus Prrers, 1875. Marsupialia, Dasyuridee. 
Sitzungsber. Gesellsch. Naturforsch. Freunde, Berlin, July? 1875, 73. 
New name for Chetocercus Krefft, 1866, which is preoccupied by Chatocercus 
G. R. Gray, 1855, a genus of Birds. 
Dasycercus: da6vs, thick; KépKos, tail—in allusion to the crested hairy tail. 
Dasycherus Gray, 1878. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Suidee. 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 4th ser., XI, 435-436, June, 1873. 
Species: Sus verrucosus Müller, from Java; and S. celebensis Müller, from Celebes. 
Dasycherus: da6vs, thick; yozpos, hog. 
Dasymys Peters, 1875. Glires, Muridee, Murine. 
Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., Berlin, 1875, 12-13; W. L. SCLATER, Ann. 8. 
Afr. Mus., I, pt. 2, p. 218, Mar., 1899. 
