ELEOTRAGUS——ELIGMODONTIA 955 
Eleotragus—Continued. 
Species, 3: Antilope isabellina Afzelius (= A. arundinum Boddaert, type), A. villosa 
Burchell, and A. redunca H. Smith, from South Africa. 
Eleotragus: £Aoc, marsh; tecy os, goat—from its habitat in swampy ground near 
springs or river bottoms. 
Elephalces (see Elaphalces). Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Cervidee. 
E'ephantus Cuvier & Gerorrroy, 1795. Ungulata, Preboscidea, Elephantidee. 
Méth. Mammalogique, in Mag. Encyclopédique, 1° ann., II, 189, 1795; LAcÉPEDE 
& Cuvier, Ménagerie Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat., I, 83-125, pl. facing p. 124; II, 
45-65, pl. facing p. 45, 1804. 
Modified form of Elephas Linnzeus, 1758. Species not given in first reference, but 
the name was used by Lacépéde & Cuvier for E. indicus. 
Elephantus: Lat. elephant. 
Elephas LixN;Evs, 1758. Ungulata, Proboscidea, Elephantidee. 
Systema Naturee, 10th ed., I, 33, 1758; 12th ed., I, 48, 1766; Brisson, Regnum 
Animale in Classes IX distrib., 2d ed., 12, 28-30, 1762. 
Elephantus Cuvier & GEorFRovy, Méth. Mammalogique, in Mag. Encyclopédique, 
1* ann., 1I, 189, 1795; LAcÉPEDE & Cuvier, Ménagerie Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat., I, 
83-125; II, 45-65, 1804. 
Type: Elephas maximus Linnzeus, from Ceylon [*Zeylona' ]. 
Elephas: £Aécac, elephant. 
Elephotherium (see Elaphotherium). Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Cervidee. 
Eleutherocercus Koxen, 1888. Edentata, Glyptodontidee. 
Anhang zu Abhandl. K. Akad. Wiss., Berlin, Nr. I, 1-28, Taf. 1-11, Apr. 26, 1888. 
Type: Eleutherocercus setifer Koken, from the Pleistocene of Uruguay. 
Extinct. Based on ''Das Stück, welches nur den hinteren Theil des Sch wanz- 
tubus bildet." 
Eleutherocercus: £Aev6epos, free; Képkos, tail—‘‘ mit Rücksicht auf die lockere 
Verbindung des Tubus mit dem Endstücke der Schwanzwirbelsiule.”’ 
Eleutherodon Mercerat, 1891. Edentata, Megalonychid:e. 
Revista Mus. La Plata, IT, 24, 1891. 
Type: Eleutherodon heteroclitus Mercerat, from the Rio Santa Cruz, Patagonia. 
Name preoccupied (?) by Eleutheroda , Brunner de Wattenwyl, 1865, a genus of 
Orthoptera. 
Extinct. Based on an imperfect lower jaw. 
Eleutherodon: éAevbepos, free; 00v —080/vs, tooth. 
Eleutherura Gray, 1843. Chiroptera, Pteropodidee. 
Voy. ‘Sulphur,’ Mamm., pt. rr, 29, 1843; List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. xix, 
1843; Doznsow, Cat. Chiroptera Brit. Mus., 70 footnote, 1878. 
Type: Pteropus hottentottus Temminck, from the vicinity of Cape Town, Cape 
Colony (‘‘dans les environs de la ville du Cap de Bonne-Espérance et dans 
(P'intérieur."—TEwwiNck, Mon. Mamm ., II, 88, 1835.) 
Eleutherura: éAevbepos, free; odpd, tail—so called from having the tail free 
from the interfemoral membrane. 
Eligmodon (see Eligmodontia). Glires, Murid:e, Cricetine. 
Eligmodontia F. CuvrEgn, 1837. Glires, Murid:z, Cricetinee. 
Ann. Sci. Nat., Paris, 2* sér., VII, 168-171, pl. 5, Mar., 1837. 
Elygmodovtia Wiegmann’s Archiv Naturgesch., 1838, 11, 388 (misprint) 
Heligmodontia AGAsstz, Nomenclator Zool., Mamm., Addenda, 5, Index Univ., 
136, 175, 1846; 2d ed., 392, 394, 504, 1848. 
