300 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Graphiurus— Continued. 
quoted by OariBy, Proe. Zool. Soc. London, No. rxr, 5, July, 1838; Cuvisr, 
Hist. Nat. Mamm., VII, Table Gén. et Méthod., p. 4, No. 254, 1842; W. L. 
ScrATER, Ann. 8. Afr. Mus., I, pt. 2, pp. 186-190, 1899. 
Graphyurus Buyru, in Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, new ed., 1849, 111; new ed., 
1863, 99. ; 
Graphidurus W ALLACE, Geog. Dist. Animals, II, 232, 1876. 
Type: Graphiurus capensis Smuts, 1832( — Graphiure du Cap F. Cuvier, Sept., 1829— 
Sciurus ocularis A. Smith, May, 1829), from the Cape of Good Hope, Africa. 
Graphiurus: y paderor, pencil; otpa, tail—in allusion to the pencil of hairs 
at the extremity of the cylindrical tail. 
Grimmia* (subg. of Antilope), LAURILLARD, 1841. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Bovidee. 
LavuniLLARD, in D’Orbigny’s Dict. Univ. Hist. Nat., I, 623-624, 1841 (art. 
‘Antilope’); Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. xxvi, 1843; Proc. Zool. 
Soc. London, 1871, 589-592, fig. 1 (raised to generic rank); Cat. Ruminant 
Mamm. Brit. Mus., 22, 1872; ScrATER & THomas, Book of Antelopes, I, pt. 111, 
121, May, 1895 (in synonymy, type fixed). 
Species, 6: Antilope grimmia, A. pigmexa Pallas, A. frederici Laurillard, A. sylvi- 
cultrix Afzelius, A. mergens Blainville, from Africa; and A. quadricornis Blain- 
ville, from Nepal, India. Type, Cephalophus rufipilatus (=Antilope grimmia 
Desmarest—fide SctLATER & Tomas). 
Grimmia: From the species named Capra grimmia by Linneeus in honor of Dr. 
Hermann Nicolas Grimm, who described it as early as 1686, under the name 
Capra sylvestris africana. (Scrarer & THomas, l. c., 206.) 
Grison OxeNn, 1816. Fere, Mustelide. 
Lehrb. Naturgesch., 3ter Theil, Zool., 2te Abth., pp. xi, 1000-1001, 1816; ALLEN, 
Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., N. Y., XVI, 377, Oct. 11, 1902 (name revived). 
Grisonia GRAY, Ann. Philos., XXVI, 339, 1825 (nomen nudum); J. B. FiscHER, 
Syn. Mamm., 154 footnote, 1829 (nomen nudum); Gray, List Spec. Mamm. 
3rit. Mus., pp. xx, 68, 1843; Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865, 122. 
Type: Viverra vittata Gmelin, from Surinam (Dutch Guiana). - 
Grisonia: Latinized form of grison, the common name of the genus, from French 
grison, gray-headed—in allusion to the characteristic marking. 
Gronotherium AMEGHINO, 1887. Ungulata, Toxodontia, Nesodontide. 
Enum. Sist. Especies Mamíf. Fós. Patagonia Austral, p. 17, Dec., 1887. 
Type: Gronotherium decrepitum Ameghino, from the Lower Tertiary of southern 
Patagonia. 
Extinet. 
Gronotherium: yp@vos, eaten out; 07piov, wild beast—in allusion to the molars, 
which are hollowed out at the base like those of Toxodon. (AMEGHINO. ) 
Grymaeomys (subg. of Didelphis) Burmeister, 1854.  Marsupialia, Didelphyide. 
Syst. Uebers. Thiere Brasiliens, I, Sáugeth., 138-142, 1854; Erliut. zur Fauna 
Brasiliens, 77, 1856; THowas, Cat. Marsup. & Monotrem. Brit. Mus., 340, 1888 
(type fixed). 
Species, 6: Didelphys murina Linnsus (type), D. agilis Burmeister, D. pusilla 
Desmarest, D. tristriata Kuhl, D. brachyura Schreber, and D. velutina Natterer, 
all from South America. 
Name antedated by Marmosa Gray, 1821. 
Grymaecomys: y pvu£éa, bag; “0s, mouse—in allusion to the pouch. 

*This name is not found in the reference given in Agassiz's Nomenclator Zool.: 
**Oarrpv, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1836." It is usually quoted as 1839, but probabl 
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was not published until 1841. (See SHersorn & PaALMER, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 
7th ser., 1II, 351-352, 1899.) 
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