314 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Helicophora—Continued. 
Helicophorus Zrvrer, Handb. Paleont., IV, 2" Lief, 418, 1893; TTRovxssART, Cat. 
Mamm., new ed., fasc. IV, 932, 1898. 
New name for Helicoceras Weithofer, 1888, which is preoccupied by Helicoceras 
D'Orbigny, 1840, a genus of Mollusca.  Helicophora is also preoccupied by 
Helicophora Gray, 1842, a genus of Mollusca. Replaced by Helicotragus, 
Palmer, 1903. 
Extinct. 
Helicophora: £A1&, €AiKkos, spiral; Popds, bearing—in allusion to the spiral horns. 
Helicotragus Patmer, 1908. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Bovidee. 
Science, new ser., X VII, 873, May 29, 1903. 
New name for /Telicophora Weithofer, 1889, which is preoccupied by Helioplore 
Gray, 1842, a genus of Mollusca. 
Extinct. 
Helicotragus: €A1z, €AtKos, spiral; Teayos, goat, antelope—in allusion to the 
spiral horns. 
Helictis Gray, 1831. Fer, Mustelidee. 
Proc. Zool. Soe. London, pt. 1, No. vin, 94-95, Aug. 5, 1831; Philos. Mag., new 
ser., X, 234, 1831. 
Helictes Gray, List Osteol. Spec. Brit. Mus., pp. x, 20, 1847. 
Type: /felictis moschata Gray, from China. 
Helictis: €An=etAn, the sun’s heat; Z«r:c, weasel. (Probably £Aosc, marsh; /Kr1s, 
weasel—Century Diet.) 
Heligmodontia (see Eligmodontia). Glires, Murid:e, Cricetinze. 
Heliomys Gray, 1873. Glires, Murid:e, Murine. 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 4th ser., XII, 417-418, fig. 2, Nov., 1873. 
Type: Heliomys jeudei Gray, locality unknown. 
Heliomys: Y/Àv0c, sun; 4s, mouse. 
Heliophobius PETERS, 1846. Glires, Bathyergide. 
Bericht Bekanntmachung geeign. Verhandl. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 259, 
Aug., 1846; Naturwiss. Reise Mossambique, Sáugeth., 139-145, Taf. xxx1 fig. 2 
[ Bathyergus], xxxv fig. 2, 1852. 
Heliphobius Bepparp, Mamm., Cambridge Nat. Hist., X, 481, 1902 (misprint). 
Type: Heliophobius argenteo-cinereus Peters, from Tette, Mozambique, southeastern 
Africa (S. lat. 16°-17°). 
Name preoccupied by Heliophobius Boisduval, 1829, a genus of Lepidoptera. 
Replaced by Myoscalops Thomas, 1890. 
Heliophobius: Atos, sun; Poféw, to fear—trom its subterranean mode of life. 
Heliophoca Gray, 1854. Fere, Pinnipedia, Phocidee. 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 2d ser., XIII, 201-202, Mar., 1854; Proc. Zool. Soc. 
London, for 1854, No. ccuxm, 43-44, Jan. 10, 1855; ALLEN, Mon. N. Am. 
Pinnipeds, 465, 1880 (in synonymy). 
Type: Heliophoca atlantica Gray (=Phoca monachus Hermann), from Deserta 
Grande Island, Madeira. 
Heliophoca: Atos, sun; $c, seal—in allusion to its habitat near the tropics. 
Heliosciurus (subgenus of Sciurus) 'TRovEssART, 1880. Glires, Sciuridee. 
Le Naturaliste, II, No. 37, p. 292, Oct. 1, 1880; Ibid., II, No. 40, p. 315, Nov. 
15, 1880; Cat. Mamm. in Bull. Soe. d’ Etudes Sci. d’ Angers, X, 1°" fasc., 82-84, 
1880; Bull. U. S. Geol. & Geog. Surv. Terr., VI, No. 2, p. 306, Sept. 19, 1881; 
Tuomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1897, 933. (type mentioned ). 
