384 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Lophostoma D’Orsiany, 1838. Chiroptera, Phyllostomatide. 
Mag. Zool. & Botany, IJ, No. 12, p. 489, 1838 (quoted by Gray); Voy. Amérique 
Mérid., IV, ?* pt., Mamm., 11, ‘pl. v1,’ 1847 (pl. vi is quoted as if published 
in 1836); Parwrn, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XII, 110, 1898 (in synonymy). 
Type: Lophostoma sylvicolum D'Orbigny, from the eastern foot of the Cordillera 
in Bolivia (‘au pays des sauvages Yuracarés" ). 
Name antedated by Tonatia Gray, 1827. ! 
Lophostoma: Ad@os, crest; 6óróua, mouth—in allusion to the nose-leaf. 
Lophotragus SwinHor, 1874. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Cervide. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1874, 453-454, pl. rix. 
Type: Lophotragus michianus Swinhoe, from Ningpo, China. 
Lophotragus: Ad@os, crest; rp&y os, goat—‘ tufted deer,’ from the thick tuft of 
coarse hair on the forehead. 
Lophotus G. FiscHer, 1818. Primates, Simiide. 
Zoognosia, II, pp. ix, 547—548, 1813. 
New name for Pongo Lacépéde, 1799. ** Nomini Pongo, acceptionis ambigue, id 
Lophoti substitui, propter ejus erestam insignem capitis, a Ao@wrds, cristatus."' 
Type, Lophotus wurmbii Fischer (= Pongo wurmbii Tiedemann), from the island 
of Borneo. Antedated by Simia Linn:sus, 1758. 
Lophotus: Aoc rós, crested. 
Lophuromys Peters, 1874. Glires, Muridze, Murine. 
Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., Berlin, Mar., 1874, 234. 
New name for Lasiomys Peters, 1866, which is preoccupied by Lasiomys Burmeis- 
ter, 1854, a genus of Cricetine. 
Lophuromys: Ao@os, crest; ovo, tail; “0s, mouse. 
Lophyomeryx (see Lophiomeryx). Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Tragulidee. 
Loricatus Desmarest, 1804. Edentata, Dasypodide. 
Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat., XXIV, Tab. Méth. Mamm., 28, 1804; MuriRHEAD, in 
Brewster’s Edinburgh Enecyclopzedia, XIII, 447, 1830 (under Mazology). 
Species, 8: Dasypus giganteus Geoffroy, from Paraguay; Loricatus flavimanus Des- 
marest (=D. sexcinctus Linn:eus), from Paraguay; L. tatoway Desmarest (=D. 
duodecuncinctus Linnzeus) , from Guiana and Brazil; L. villosus Desmarest, from 
the Pampas of Argentina; L. niger Desmarest (=D. septem-, octo- et novemcinctus 
Linneeus); L. hybridus Desmarest, from Paraguay; L. pichiy Desmarest, and 
L. matacus Desmarest (=D. unicinctus Linnzeus), from South America. 
Loricatus: Lat., clad in mail. 
Loridium RariNEsQUE, 1815. Primates, Lemuride. 
Analyse de la Nature, 54, 1815. 
New name for Loris Geoffroy 1796 (‘Loridium’ R. Loris Geof.’ ). 
Loridiwm: Latinized form of French loris. 
Loris É. Grorrroy, 1796. Primates, Lemuride. 
Mag. Encyclop., 2* année, I, 48-49, 1796; CuvrER, Lecons Anat. Comp., I, table 1, 
1800; SroxE & Renn, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1902, 138 (in synonymy). 
Lori LacÉPEDE, Tabl. Mamm., 5, 1799; ‘‘Buffon’s Hist. Nat., Didot ed., Quad., 
XIV, 150, 1799." 
Loridium KArrNESsQUE, Analyse de la Nature, 54, 1815. 
Species: Loris gracilis Geoffroy, from Ceylon and southern India; and Lemur 
tardigradus Geoffroy (not Linnzeus*), from southern Asia. 
Loris: French loris; commonly said to be a native (East Indian) name, but 
according to Baird, from the Dutch /oeris, clown, booby. (Century Diet.) 
‘Signifies ‘bashful cat’ and ‘bashful monkey,’ in allusion to its nocturnal aud 
shy habits." (Bepparp, Mamm., p. 546, 1902.) 

* Lemur tardigradus Linnzeus was based on the Slender Loris; L tardigradus Geof- 
froy on the Slow Loris = Tardigradus coucang Boddaert. (See Stone & Rehn.) 
