999 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Dendrolagus—Continued. 
Species: Dendrolagus ursinus Schlegel & Miller (type), and D. inustus Schlegel & 
Miller, from New Guinea. 
Dendrolagus: 8£v8pov, tree; Aay@s, hare—in allusion to its arboreal habits.. 
Dendroleius MryeEn, 1833. Glires, Octodontid:e. 
Nova Acta Acad. Cres. Leop.-Carol., XVI, pt. rt, Tab. xrrv, 1833; Reise um die 
Erde, III (Zool. Bericht), 122b (errata), 1834; Wiegmann's Archiv Natur- 
gesch., 1835, I, 397. 
Dendrobius MEvEN, Nova Acta, XVI, 600-602, 1833; Reise um die Erde, 112, 1834 
(misprint). 
Type: Dendroleius degus Meyen, from Chile? 
Dendroleius: ó£v8pov, tree; Acta, booty—possibly in allusion to the animal's 
supposed habit of robbing birds’ nests in trees. 
Dendromus A. Smirn, 1829. Glires, Murid:»s, Dendromyine. 
Zool. Journ., IV, 4538-439, Jan.-May, 1829. 
Dendromys Smuts, Enum. Mamm. Cap., 32, 1832; A. Smiru, S. Afr. Quart. Journ., 
II, 158, 1834; Ill. Zool. S. Africa, Mamm., pl. xxxiv, 1841; W. L. SCLATER, 
Anr. 8. Afr. Mus., I, pt. 2, pp. 198-200, 1899. 
Type: Dendroinus typus Smith (—Mus mesomelas Brants, 1827), from South Africa. 
Dendromus: 8£v8pov, tree; “0s, mouse—‘ tree mouse'—from the fact that the 
members of this genus are apparently entirely arboreal. 
Deomys THomas, 1888. Glires, Murid:e, Dendromyine. 
Proc. Zool. Soe. London, June 1, 1888, 130, pl. v. 
Type: Deomys ferrugineus Thomas, from the lower Congo River, Africa. 
Deomys: £c, to link, i. e., a connectant form; “0s, mouse—in allusion to the 
upper molars, which are intermediate in character between those of the 
Mures and the Criceti. 
Dermanura Gervais, 1855. Chiroptera, Phyllostomatid:e. 
Expd. Comte de Castelnau Am. du Sud, Zool., Mamm., 36, pl. x1 fig. 3, 1855. 
Type: Dermanura cinereum (=Stenoderma cinereum Blainville MS.), from Brazil. 
Dermanura: dépua, skin; a- without; ovo« tail—in allusion to the presence of 
an interfemoral membrane and absence of tail. 
Dermipus WriEDEMANN, 1800. Monotremata, Ornithorhynchide. 
Archiv für Zool. & Zoot., I, pt. 1, p. 180, pl. mr, 1800. 
Demipus GRAY, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865, 385; Cat. Carn., Pachyderm., & 
Edentate Mamm. Brit. Mus., 393, 1869 (in synonymy). 
New name, provisionally proposed for Platypus Shaw, 1799, which is preoccupied 
by Platypus Herbst, 1793, a genus of Coleoptera. 
Dermipus: Sépea skin; z0s, foot—in allusion to the webbed feet. 
Dermonotus Git, 1901. Chiroptera, Phyllostomatide. 
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XIV, 177, Sept. 25, 1901. 
New name for Pteronotus Gray, 1838, which is preoccupied by Pteronotus Rafi- 
nesque, 1815, a genus of Pteropodid:e. 
Dermonotus: ó£puc, skin; v@ros, back—in reference to the extension of the 
skin of the wings and interfemoral membrane upon the back. 
Dermopterus Burnert, 1829. Insectivora, Galeopithecide. 
Quart. Journ. Sci., Lit. & Art, XXVII, 268, Apr.-June, 1829. 
New name, suggested but not used, for Galeopithecus Pallas, 1780. — [ Pleuropterus] 
"formerly esteemed a Lemur, and called L. Volans, since Galeopithecus, or 
feline ape, both very inappropriate terms . . Pleuropterus or Dermopte- 
rus would either form a more fitting name." 
