878 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Linsang—Continued. 
Lingsang Gray, List Osteol. Spec. Brit. Mus., pp. x, 140, 1847. 
Linsanga LypDEKKER, Geog. Hist. Mamm., 20, 285, 1896. 
Type: Linsang gracilis Miller & Schlegel (= Viverra linsang Hardwicke), from 
Java or Sumatra. 
This name has been adopted by Thomas (1.c.) to replace Prionodon Horsfield, 
1824, said to be preoccupied by Priodon Cuvier, 1822, a genus of Edentata. 
Linsang: From the specific name of the type, evidently a native name.* 
Liocephalus (subgenus of /Japale) WAGxNEn, 1889. Primates, Hapalidee. 
Suppl. Schreber’s Siugthiere, I, pp. ix, v bis [244—248], 1839. 
Species, 5: Hapale melanura (Geoffroy), H. argentata ( Linnzeus), H. midas (Lin- 
nius), HH. ursula (Hoffmannsegg), and H. labiata (Geoffroy), from South 
America. 
Name preoccupied by Leiocephalus Gray, 1827 (emended to Liocephalus), a genus 
of lizards. 
Liocephalus: Atos, smooth; «eoaAÀ», head—in allusion to the absence of ear- 
tufts and mane. 
Liomys Merriam, 1902. Glires, Heteromyidee. 
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XV, 44, Mar. 5, 1902. 
Type: Heteromys alleni Coues, from San Luis Potosi, Mexico. 
Liomys: Aczos, smooth, plain; 4c, mouse—‘plain mouse,’ in allusion to the 
absence of the specialized characters of Heterommys. 
Liotomus Corr, 1884. Allotheria, Plagiaulacide. 
Am. Naturalist, X VIII, 691, 695, July, 1884. 
Type: Neoplagiaulax marshii Lemoine, from the Eocene of Reims, France. 
Extinct. 
Liotomus: Aezos, smooth; rou» a cutting—in allusion to the fourth premolar, 
which is smooth. 
Lipodectes Corr, 1881. Creodonta, Proviverridz. 
Am. Naturalist, XV, for Dec., 1881, 1019-1020, Nov. 29, 1881; Tert. Vert., 344, 
1885 (date of publication, under Dissacus); Hay, Cat. Foss. Vert. N. Am., 
Bull. 179, U. S. Geol. Surv., 751, 1902 (under Deltatherium, type fixed). 
Species: Lipodectes penetrans Cope (type), and L. pelvidens Cope, from the Puerco 
Eocene of New Mexico. 
Extinct. 
Lipodectes: Aeixw, to leave; 97)&«r77c, biter—in allusion to the wide diastema. 
Liponyx (‘JENTINK’) Forbes, 1882. Chiroptera, Pteropodidee. 
Forses, Zool. Record for 1881, X VIII, Mamm., 13, 1882. 
Emendation of Leiponyx Jentink, 1881. 
Name preoccupied by Liponyx Vieillot, 1816, a genus of Birds. 
Lipotus SuNDEVALL, 1843. Ferz, Mustelidee. 
K. Vetensk. Acad. Handlingar, Stockholm, for 1842, 199, 211-212, 1843. 
New name for the ‘barbaric’ Ratelus Bennett, 1830. ** Non vidi nomen genericum 
pro hoe animali acceptum, preeter barbarum illud Ratelum, quod secundum 
regulas acceptas conservari nequit."  (SuNDEVALL.) 
Lipotus: Atízc, to leave, to be wanting; o?c, Oróc, ear—in allusion to the 
diminutive ears. 
Lipura IrriaEn, 1811. Glires, Sciuride. 
Prodromus Syst. Mamm. et Avium, 95, 1811; Okrw, Lehrbuch Naturgesch. , 3ter 
Theil, Zool., 2te Abth., 1090, 1816. 
Type: [yrax hudsonius Schreber (the Tailless Marmot of Pennant), from the 
vicinity of Hudson Bay, Canada. (See Marmota Frisch, 1775.) 
Lipura: * Aeiz opos, cui cauda deest’—in allusion to the short tail. 

Flower, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1900, 315. 
