356 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Josepholeidya AmEGcutno, 1901. Ungulata, Condylarthra, Meniscotheriide. 
Bol. Acad. Nae. Cien. Cérdoba, X VI, 384-385, July, 1901 (sep. pp. 38-39). 
Species: Josepholeidya adunca Ameghino, and J. deculca Ameghino, from the 
‘Cretaceous’ of Patagonia. 
Extinct. 
Josepholeidya: In honor of Dr. Joseph Leidy, 1823-1891, one of the leading 
American paleontologists; author of ‘Ancient Fauna of Nebraska,’ 1854, ete. 
Junkus (see Suncus). Insectivora, Soricidee. 
KS 
Kangurus Cuvier & Grorrroy, 1795. Marsupialia, Macropodide. 
Mag. Encyclopédique, IT, 180, 188, 1795; III, 461—462, 1796; Grorrroy, Bull. Soc. 
Philomathique, Paris, I, 1* part., 106, 1796 (no type); Cat. Mamm. Mus. 
National Hist. Nat., 153-155, 1808 (A. giganteus, K. philander); DESMAREST, 
Mammalogie, I, 271-275, 1820; Gaimarp, Bull. Sci. Soc. Philomathique, Paris, 
138-139, Sept., 1823; THomas, Cat. Marsup. & Monotrem. Brit. Mus., 10, 1888 
(in synonymy ). 
Kanguroo LacÉPEDE, Tabl. Mamm., 6, 1799; Nouv. Tableau Méth. Mamm., in 
Mém. l'Institut, Paris, III, 491, 1801. 
Based on the Kangaroo. Type given by Lacépéde as Kanguroo gigas, and by 
Thomas as Macropus giganteus(=Jaculus giganteus Erxleben), from Australia. 
(See Macropus Shaw, 1790.) 
Kangurus: Latinized form of Kanguroo. 
Kannabateomys JENTINK, 1891. Glires, Octodontidze. 
Notes Leyden Museum, XIII, 105-110, pl. 7, Mar., 1891. 
Cannabateomys LYDEKKER, Zool. Record for 1891, XXVIII, Mamm., 32, Index 
New Genera, 3, 1892. 
Type: Dactylomys amblyonyx Natterer, from Y panema, Sao Paulo, Brazil. 
Kannabateomys: Kavva, reed, cane; faréc, to mount; “0s, mouse. 
Kasi (subgenus of Semnopithecus) RErcHENBACH, 1862. Primates, Cercopithecidee. 
Vollstiind. Naturgesch. Affen, 101-103, pl. xvii, figs. 234—235, 240-241, [1862]. 
Species: Semnopithecus dussumierii Geoffroy, and S. cucullatus Geoffroy, from India. 
Kasi: Ancient name of Benares, India, which is said to mean ‘the splendid.’ 
Among the temples in the city is the Durga temple, erected in the 18th cen- 
tury, sometimes called the ‘Monkey temple’ from the myriads of monkeys 
which inhabit the trees nearby. ‘‘Obiger Name beruht auf folgendem Auf- 
satze in einem deutschen Journal: ‘Beschreibung einiger Affen aus Kasi oder 
Benares’ im nórdl. Bengalen, vom Missioniir John in Traukenbar.—Neue 
Schriften d. naturf. Freunde z. Berlin, I, 1795."  (REICHENBACH.) 
Kathiah (subgenus of Mustela) Gray, 1865. Fere, Mustelide. 
Proc. Zool. Soe. London, 1865, 119 (synonym of Gymnopus kathiah). 
Name given in subgeneric form by Gray and credited to Hodgson, but appar- 
ently never used by either author except as a specific term. Gray quotes 
“M. (Kathiah) auriventer, Hodgson, J. A. S. B., X, 909," but according to 
Blanford (Mamm. Brit. India, 169, 1891), the name was published Mustela 
auriventer v. cathia. 
Kathiah: Native name of the yellow-bellied weasel in Nepal, India. 
Keitloa (subg. of Rhinaster) Gray, 1867. Ungulata, Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotidee. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867, 1025-1026; Cat. Carn., Pachyderm., & Edentate 
Mamm. Brit. Mus., 317-318, 1869. 
Type: Rhinoceros keitloa A. Smith, from South Africa. 
Keitloa: Bechuana name for the two-horned black rhinoceros. (CuMMiINGs, in 
Johnson's Nat. Hist., I, 638, 1885.) 
