320 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Henricofilholia—Continued. 
Extinct. 
Henricofilholia: In honor of Henri Filhol, 1843-1902, late professor of comparative 
anatomy and director of the anatomical laboratory of the Muséum d'Histoire 
Naturelle, Paris. 
Henricosbornia AwraniNo, 1901. E Primates ( Henricosbornidz). 
Bol. Acad. Nac. Cien. Córdoba, XVI, 357-358, July, 1901 (sep. pp. 11-12). 
Type: Henricosbornia lophodonta Ameghino, from the ‘Cretaceous’ of Patagonia. 
Extinct. 
Henricosbornia: In honor of Henry Fairfield Osborn, 1857-, Da Costa pro- 
fessor of zoology, Columbia University, and curator of vertebrate paleon- 
tology, American Museum of Natural History, New York; author of numerous 
papers on paleontology. 
Hepoona Gray, 1841. Marsupialia, Phalangeride. 
Gray, in Grey's Journ. Two Expd. Northwest & West Australia, App. II, 
402, 407-408, 1841; THomas, Cat. Marsup. & Monotrem. Brit. Mus., 166, 1888 
(in synonymy ). 
Type: Phalangista cookii Desmarest, from Tasmania. (See Pseudochirus Ogilby, 
1837. ) 
Hepoona: Hepoona Roo, native name used in John White’s ‘Voyage to New 
South Wales,’ 1790. 
Heptacodon Marsu, 1894. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Anthracotheriide. 
Am. Journ. Sci., 3d ser., XLVII, No. 281, p. 409, 3 figs. in text, May, 1894. 
Type: Heptacodon curtus Marsh, from the Oligocene of South Dakota. 
Extinct. Based on a last upper molar. 
Heptacodon: ézrá, seven; ak, point; 66@v = ddo0vs, tooth—from the seven 
cusps of the last upper molar. 
Heptaconus AMEGHINO, 1894. Ungulata, Litopterna, Proterotheriide. 
Enum. Syn. Mamm. Foss. Form. Eocénes Patagonie, 44, Feb., 1894. 
Type: Heptaconus acer Ameghino, from the Eocene of Patagonia. 
Extinct. 
Heptaconus: ézr& , seven; K@vos, cone. 
Heptodon Corr, 1882. Ungulata, Perissodactyla, Lophiodontide. 
Am. Naturalist, XVI, 1029, Dec. (27), 1882; Tert. Vert., 492, 1885 (date of pub- 
lication, under Diacodexis). 
Type: Lophiodon ventorum Cope, from the Eocene of Wyoming. 
Name preoccupied (?) by Heptodonta Hope, 1838, a genus of Insects. 
Extinct. 
Heptodon: ézrá , seven; 06@v=66o0vs, tooth—in allusion to the upper molar- 
iform teeth which are seven in number. 
Hericulus (see Ericulus). Insectivora, Tenrecidze. 
Herinaceus (see Erinaceus). Insectivora, Erinaceidze. 
Herpailurus (subgenus of Felis) SEvERTZOW, 1858. Ferze, Felidee. 
Revue et Mag. de Zool., Paris, 2° sér., X, 385, 390, Sept., 1858. 
Species: Felis ( Herpailurus) yaguarundi Desmarest, and Felis (.H.) eyra Desmarest, 
from Paraguay. 
Herpailurus: £pzc, to creep; aiAovpos, cat—in allusion to the animal's habits 
and manner of approaching its prey. 
Herpestes IrLuiGER, 1811. .  Fers, Viverride. 
Prodromus Syst. Mamm. et Avium, 135, 1811 (Herpertes, corrected to Herpestes 
in Errata, 302); 'TTnowAs, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1882, 63-78, fig. 1 (type 
fixed). 
