DERMOPTERUS—DESMODUS. 999 
Dermopterus—Continued. 
Dermopterus: óepuózrepos, leather winged (from ó£pya, skin; zrepóv, wing)— 
in allusion to the integumentary expansion connecting the fore and hind limbs 
and tail, thus forming a parachute. 
Desman Lac£rEpE, 1799. Insectivora, Talpide. 
Tabl. Mamm., 7, 1799; Tabl. Méth. in Buffon's Hist. Nat., Didot ed., Quad., 
XIV, 157, 1799; Nouv. Tabl. Méth. Mamm., in Mém. l'Institut, Paris, III, 
493, 1801. 
Type: Desman moschatus (= Castor moschatus Linneeus), from southeastern Russia. 
Desman: French and German desman; Swedish desman rátta, musk rat, from 
desman, musk. 
Desmana GürpbENsrTADT, 1777. Insectivora, Talpide. 
** Bescháftigungen Berliner Gesellsch. Naturf. Freunde, III, 108, [1777] " (fide 
Branpt, Wiegmann's Archiv Naturgesch., II, Bd. I, 182, 1836). 
Desman  LAcEPEbE, Tabl. Mamm., 7, 1799; Tabl. Méth. in Buffon's Hist. Nat., 
Didot éd., Quad., XIV, 157, 1799. 
Desmanus RAFINESQUE, Analyse de la Nature, 59, 1815. 
Type: Castor moschatus Linnzeus. The names Mus aquaticus exoticus, Glis moschi- 
ferus, and Castor moschatus are mentioned in the original decription, all of which 
are synonyms of Mygale moschata, from southern Russia, according to Fischer 
(Zoognosia, III, 598-599, 1814). ‘‘Aus den gelieferten Andeutungen über die 
Organisation des Wuychuchol móchte sich wohl zur Genüge ergeben, dass ihn 
schon Güldenstüdt im Jahre 1776 [1777] . . . mit vollem Rechte zu einer 
eigenen Gattung erhoben hat, die er aber nicht ganz passend Desmana nannte, 
daher der spiitere Cuviersche Name Mygale oder besser Myogale vorzuziehen 
sein dürfte, welcher übrigens der überall angenommene ist."  (BRANpr, l. c., 
182.) 
Desmana: French and German desman; Swedish desman rátta, musk rat, from 
desman, musk. 
Desmatippus Scorr, 1893. Ungulata, Perissodactyla, Equide. 
Am. Naturalist, X XVII, 660, 661, July, 1893; Trans. Am. Philos. Soc., XVII, 
79, 84-92, pl. 11, figs. 9-14, May 23, 1894. 
Type: Desmatippus crenidens Scott, from the Miocene of Deep River Valley, 
northwest of White Sulphur Springs, Meagher County, Montana. 
Extinct. Based on teeth, the mandible, radius, ulna, femur, manus, and pes, 
and fragments of other bones. 
Desmatippus: ó£Gua, 8éGuaros, bond; ?zzos, horse. Desmatippus ‘fills the gap 
between Miohippus and Protohippus." |(Scorr.) 
Desmatocyon Corr, 1894. Fere, Canide. 
Am. Naturalist, X X VIII, 790, Sept. 15, 1894. 
Lapsus for Cynodesmus Scott, 1893. 
Desmatotherium Scort, 1883. Ungulata, Perissodactyla, Lophiodontide. 
Cont. from E. M. Mus. Geol. & Archzeol. Princeton College, Bull. No. 3, pp. 
46-51, pl. vii, figs. 1-3, May, 1883. 
Type: Desmatotherium guyotii Scott, from the Bridger Eocene of Wyoming. 
extinct. Based on ‘‘the entire upper dentition, lacking the incisors only." 
Desmatotherium: d€6ua, d€6uatos, bond; Inpiov, wild beast. 
Desmodus Maxrinian, 1824. Chiroptera, Phyllostomatid:e. 
Abbild. Naturgesch. Brasilien, 5te Lief., pl. and text, 1824; Beitr. Naturgesch. 
Brasilien, II, 231—238, 1826. 
Type: Desmodus rufus Maximilian, from ‘‘den Gebáuden der Fazenda von Muri- 
beca am Flusse Itabapuana," province of Espirito Santo, Brazil. 
Desmodus: 6261406, bundle; 66 ovs, tooth—‘‘ Bündelzahn. Gebiss: Schneidezühne 
im Oberkiefer zwei; gross, kegeliórmig, gekrümmt, zusammengedriickt.”’ 
(MAXIMILIAN. ) 
