256 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Eligmodontia—Continued. 
Elimodon Frrzincer, Sitzungsb. Math.-Nat. Cl. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, LV, 
463, 1867. 
Eligmodon Tuomas, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 6th ser., XVIII, 307, Oct., 1896. 
Type: Eligmodontia typus F. Cuvier, from the vicinity of Buenos Aires, Argentina. 
Eligmodontia: £A1y óc, a winding, convolution; é6do0vs, óÓóvros, tooth—in allu- 
sion to the zigzag pattern of the molars. 
Elimodon FrrzixcEn, 1867. Glires, Murid:e, Cricetine. 
Sitzungsb. Math.-Naturw. Cl. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, LV, 463, 1867. 
This name seems to be a misprint for Eligmodontia Cuvier. Fitzinger says: ‘‘So 
hat er [Wagner] . . . für Elmodon die Benennung Hesperomys angenom- 
men." In Wagner's Supplement to Sehreber's Sáugthiere, III, referred to, 
Eligmodontia and not Elimodon, is the name given. 
Eliomys Wacxzn, 1848. Glires, Muscardinidee. 
Abhandl. Math.-Phys. Cl. K. Bayerischen Akad. Wiss., München, III, 175-185, 
Tab. 1r, figs. 1-4; Tab. rir, fig. 1, 1843. 
Type: Myoxus melanurus Wagner, from the vicinity of Mt. Sinai, Arabia. 
Eliomys: éAetós or éAeióc, a kind of dormouse; 442c, mouse. 
Elipsodon Rorn, 1898. Edentata, Megalonychide. 
Revista Mus. La Plata, IX, 194, lam. vu, fig. 3, 1898 (sep. p. 54). 
Type: Elipsodon heimi Roth, from the ‘toba terciaria’ of the Rio Collon-Cura, 
Patagonia. 
Name preoccupied by Ellipsodon Scott, 1892, a genus of Creodonta. Replaced by 
Diellipsodon Berg, 1899. 
Extinet. Based on four upper molars. 
Elipsodon: £AAewbis, ellipse; 66@v=66o0vs, tooth—in allusion to the elliptical 
form of the three anterior molars. 
Eliurus MirxrE-Epwanps, 1885. Glires, Murid:e, Cricetine. 
Ann. Sci. Nat., Paris, 6* sér., Zool., XX, Art. No. 1 bis, p. 1, 1885. 
Type: Eliurus myoxinus A. Milne-Edwards, from the west coast of Madagascar. 
Eliurus: éAetóg or éAe10c, a kind of dormouse; ovpd, tail—from its resemblance 
to a dormouse ( Myoxus). 
Elius (subgenus of Myovus) ScuutzE, 1900. Glires, Muscardinide. 
Zeitschr. Naturwiss., Stuttgart, LX XIII, 200, Dec. 19, 1900. 
Species: Sciwrus glis Linnzeus, from southern Europe; and Myoxus dryas Schreber, 
from southern Russia. 
Elius: &£Ae1ós or éAetds, a kind of dormouse. 
Ellipsodon Scorr, 1892. Creodonta, Oxycleenide. 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Nov. 15, 1892, 298. 
Type: Tricentes inrquidens Cope, from the Eocene of New Mexico. 
Extinct. 
Ellipsodon: €AXedis, ellipse; 08v —080vs, tooth. ‘The molars are oval in 
shape.”’ 
Ellobius G. Fiscner, 1814. Glires, Murid:e, Microtinze. 
Zoognosia, III, 72-77, 1814; Tuomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1896, 1021. 
Species, 4: Mustalpinus Pallas, from southern Russia; Ellobius zocor Fischer ( — Mus 
aspalax Pallas), from Dauria; Mus capensis Pallas, from the Cape of Good 
Hope, and M. hudsonius Pall from Labrador. Type, by elimination: Mus 
talpinus Pallas. 
Name preoccupied by Ellobium Bolten, 1798, a genus of Mollusca. 
Ellobius:. @AAOBiov, earring—from the AT Ern external ears, which are 
somewhat circular in form. 
Elocyon Avwanp, 1850. Fer, Canidee. 
Ann. Soc. Agr., Sci., Arts et Comm. Puy, XIV, 81, 110-112, 1850; Pomen Cat. 
Méth. Vert. Foss. Bassin de la Loire, 66, 1854; GERvArs, Zool. et Paléont. 
Frang., 2° éd., 219, 1859. 
