KOLUS—LAFKENTA. 359 
Kolus ('A. Surrg! ) Gray, 1843. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Bovidee. 
List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., pp. xxvi, 159, 1843; Cat. Mamm. Brit. Mus., pt. 
ur, Ungulata, 99, 1852 (synonym of Kobus). 
Misprint (*) for Kobus A. Smith, 1840 (see Cat. Ung. Brit. Mus., 99). 
Includes Kolus sing sing Gray (=Antilope defassa Ruppell), from East Africa; 
and Antilope ellipsiprymna Ogilby, from South Africa. 
Korin (subgenus of Gazella) Gray, 1872. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Bovidee. 
Cat. Ruminant Mamm. Brit. Mus., 39, 1872; Scrater & THomas, Book of Ante- 
lopes, III, pt. x, 65, Feb., 1898 (in synonymy). 
Type: Gazella rufifrons Gray, from Senegal or Gambia, West Africa. 
Korin: Native name in Senegal. (Burrow, Hist. Nat., XII, 205, 1764). 
Kurtodon OssonN, 1887. Marsupialia, Amphitheriide. 
Am. Naturalist, X XI, 1020, Nov., 1887; Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d ser., 
IX, pt. 2, pp. 208-210, fig. 4 in text; 234—235, pl. 1x, fig. 15, 1888. 
Curtodon ZrrrEL, Handb. Palaeont., IV, Iste Lief., 102, fig. 83, 1892; RoGER, 
Verzeichn. Foss. Siiugeth., in Bericht Naturwiss. Ver. Schwaben u. Neuburg 
(a. V.), Augsburg, XXXI, 12, 1894. 
Cyrtodon Wi1NGE, E. Museo Lundii, pt. —, 118, 1893. 
New name for Athrodon Osborn, November 1, 1887, which is preoccupied by 
Athrodon Sauvage, 1880, a genus of Pisces. According to Woodward and Sher- 
born (Cat. Brit. Foss. Vert. 357, 1890) AKurtodon is preoccupied by Curtodus 
Sauvage, 1867, a genus of extinct Pisces. 
Extinet. 
Kurtodon: kvprós, curved; 66@v=d5o0vs, tooth—probably in allusion to the 
recurved upper canines. 
Kynos RbrPELL, 1842. Fere, Canide. 
Mus. Senckenberg., Frankfurt a. M., III, Heft 2, p. 163, 1842. 
Type: Hyxna picta Temminck, from Africa. 
Name antedated by Lycaon Brookes, 1827; by Cynhyana Cuvier, 1829; and by 
Hyenoides Boitard, 1842. 
Kynos: kóov, kvvós, dog. 
Kyphobaleena Escuricut, 1849. Cete, Baleenide. 
K. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skrifter, Naturv. & Math. Afd., Kjóbenhavn, 5te 
Rekke, I, 108, 1849; Unter Nord. Walthiere, 56, 1849. 
Cyphobalaena M ARscHRALL, Nomenclator Zool., Mamm., 5, 1873. 
Based on the * Pukkelhval’ ( Kyphobalena boops), of the northern seas. 
Kyphobalena: kvoós, bowed forward, humpbacked; --Balana—*hump-back 
whale; 
L: 
Lacma TIEDEMANN, 1808. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Camelidee. 
Zoologie, pp. xv, 420-421, 1808. 
Modification of Lama G. Cuvier, 1800. Includes Camelus glama Linnzeus, and C. 
vicugna Molina, from South America. 
Lephotis THomas, 1901. Chiroptera, Vespertilionid:e. 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 7th ser., VII, 460-462, May, 1901. 
Type: Laphotis wintoni Thomas, from Kitui, British East Africa (alt. 3,500 ft.). 
Lexphotis: Atos, sail; ovs, @rds, ear. In allusion to the large ears; Lephotis is 
the analogue in Africa of the South American Zistiotus. 
Lafkenia Rorn, 1901. Ungulata ? 
Revista Mus. La Plata, X, 254, Oct., 1901 (sep. p. 6). 
Species: Lafkenia sulcifera Roth, and L. schmidti Roth, from the ‘upper Creta- 
ceous’ of Argentina. 
Extinct. 
Lafkenia: Huechu Lafquen, a lake in the Territory of Neuquen, Argentina. 
