ECHINOG ALE—ECHINO-SOREX. 249 
Echinogale Waaner, 1841. Insectivora, Tenrecidee. 
Suppl. Schreber’s Sáugthiere, II, 29-30, 549-550, 1841. 
Type: Echinops telfairi Martin, from Madagascar. New name for Echinops 
Martin, 1838, which was previously used in botany. 
Echinogale: éxivos, hedgehog; y «A?), weasel. 
Echinogale Pomet, 1848. Insectivora, Talpidee. 
Archiv. Sci. Phys. et Nat., Bibl. Univ. de Genéve, IX, 163, 251, Oct., 1848; Cat. 
Méth. Vert. Foss. Bassin de la Loire, 15-16, 1854. 
Type: Hchinogale laurillardi Pomel, from the Miocene of Perrier, Auvergne, France. 
Name preoccupied by Echinogale Wagner, 1841, a genus of Tenrecidze. Replaced 
by Scaptogale Trouessart, 1897. 
Extinct. 
Echinogale: éxivos, hedgehog; yadn, weasel. 
Echinomys WacxEn, 1840. Glires, Octodontide. 
Abhandl. Akad. Wiss. München, III, 203, 1840; Suppl. Schreber’s Siiugthiere, 
III, 339, 1843. 
Emendation of Echimys Geoffroy, 1809. 
Echinoprocta (subgenus of Hrethizon) Gray, 1865. Glires, Erethizontide. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865, 321—322, pl. xi; Laronng, Bol. Soc. Espafiola Hist. 
Nat., Madrid, I, 158-162, 1901 (raised to generic rank). 
Type: Erethizon ( Echinoprocta) rufescens Gray, from Colombia. 
Echinoprocta: éxivos, hedgehog; zpcxrós, the hind parts—from the spines, 
which are well developed on the hind part of the back. 
Echinops Martin, 1838. Insectivora, Tenrecid:e. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, No. rxir, July, 1838, 17-19. 
Type: Echinops telfairi Martin, from Madagascar. 
Echinops: éxivos, hedgehog; cw face—from its resemblance to Zrinaceus, the 
common hedgehog. 
Echinopus G. Fiscuer, 1814. Monotremata, Tachyglossid:e. 
[Zoognosia, I, ed. 3, p. 14, 1813—nomen nudum]; Zoognosia, III, 691-694, 1814. 
New name for Echidna G. Cuvier, 1798. ‘‘Nomen Echidne ex causis variis, 
conservari nequit." The genus includes Ornithorhynchus hystrix Home, from 
the vicinity of Port Jackson, New South Wales; and Echidna setosa Geoffroy, 
from Tasmania. (See Tachyglossus Iliger, 1811.) ; 
Echinopus: éxivos, hedgehog; wovs, foot. 
Echinosciurus (subgenus of Scivrus) TRovEssART, 1880. Glires, Sciuridee. 
Le Naturaliste, II, No. 37, p. 292, Oct. 1, 1880; Cat. Mamm. in Bull. Soe. d' Études 
Scientif. Angers, X, 1° fasc. 80-81, 1880; Bull. U. S. Geol. & Surv. Terr., VI, 
No. 2, p. 306, Sept. 19, 1881; THomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1897, 933 
(type mentioned ). 
Species, 3: Sciurus hypopyrrhus Wagler (type), S. variabilis I. Geoffroy, and S. 
stramineus Eydoux & Souleyet, from Central America and northern South 
America. 
Echinosciurus: éxivos, hedgehog; --Sceiurus—from the coarse, rigid pelage. 
Echino-Sorex (subgenus of Sorex) BLAINVILLE, 1838. Insectivora, Erinaceid:e. 
Comptes Rendus, Paris, VI, No. 22, p. 742, Jan.-June, 1838; Ann. Franc. et 
Étrang. d' Anat. et Physiol, Paris, IT, 221, 1838; Ostéog. Desc. Icon. Mamm. 
Récents et Foss., I, Insectivores, 109, 1840. 
Type: Viverra gymnura Raffles, from Sumatra. Antedated by Gymnura Lesson, 
1827. 
Echinosorex: éyivos, hedgehog; +-Sorex. 
