388 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Lutrix RAFINESQUE, 1815. Fer:x, Mustelidze. 
Analyse de la Nature, 59, 1815; Am. Monthly Mag., I, 457, Oct., 1817. 
New name for Lutra Erxleben, 1777 (*Lutrix R. Lutra Erxl." ). 
Lutrix: Lat. lutra, otter. 
Lutrogale (subgenus of Lutra), Gray, 1865. Fere, Mustelide. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865, 127; Cat. Carn. Pachyderm., & Edentate Mamm. 
jrit. Mus., 105-106, 1869. : 
Species: Lutra monticola Hodgson, from the Himalaya Mountains; and L. macrodus 
Gray, from India.* 
Lutrogale: Lutra + Gale. 
Lutronectes Gray, 1867. Ferz, Mustelidee. 
Proe. Zool. Soc. London, 1867, 180-182, 1 fig. in text; Cat. Carn., Pachyderm., & 
Edentate Mamm. Brit. Mus., 107-108, fig. 15, 1869. 
Type: Lutronectes whiteleyi Gray, from Hakodate, Japan. 
Lutronectes: Lutra; v5kr9)s, swimmer—in allusion to the strong, thick, well- 
webbed toes. 
Lycalopex (subgenus of Canis) BuRMEISTER, 1854. Fere, Canide. 
Syst. Uebers. Thiere Brasiliens, I, Mamm., 95-101, 1854; Erliut. Fauna Brasiliens, 
31, 1856. 
Species, 4: Canis azare Maximilian, C. vetulus Lund, €. cancrivorus Desmarest, 
and C. magellanicus Gray, from South America. 
Lycalopex: AvKos, wolf; @AGmHé, fox—from the long, bushy tail and other 
fox-like characters. 
Lycaon Bnookrs, 1827. Fer, Canide. 
Brookes, in Griffith’s Cuvier, Animal Kingdom, V, 151, 1827. 
Type: Lycaon tricolor Brookes ( — Hysna picta Temminck ), from the Cape of Good 
Hope, South Africa. 
Lycaon: Avi&cov, a wolf-like animal. In Grecian mythology, a King of Arcadia 
whom Jupiter turned into a wolf. 
Lycaon WaaGteEr, 1830. Marsupialia, Dasyuridee. 
Nat. Syst. Amphibien, 24, 1830. 
Type: Didelphys cynocephala Harris, from Tasmania. 
Name preoccupied by Lycaon Brookes, 1827, a genus of Canidee. 
Antedated by Thylacynus Temminck, 1827; and, by Paracyon (Brookes), Gray, 
1827. 
Lychhyeena (see Lycysena). Ferz, Hyzenide. 
Lyciscus (subgenus of Chaon) H. SurrH, 1839. Fer, Canide. 
L. SurrH, in Jardine's Nat. Library, Mamm., IX, 160-166, 1839; 27 ed., Mamm., 
I, 153, 1858; Mamm., IV, 160-166, pls. 5-6, 1866; Mamm., V, 288, 1865. 
Species, 3: Canis latrans Say, from the vicinity of Council Bluffs, Iowa; Lyciscus 
cagottis Smith, from Mexico; and L. tigris Smith, from Vincovah, near Bom- 
bay, India. 
Lyciscus: Dim. of AvKos, wolf—‘ ‘Lyciscus, hoc idem e lupis galli, quorum 
greges suis quisque ductorem e canibus Lyciscam habent. (Pliny, quoted by 
Cirino. )—We do not find this text, but the name is evidently connected with 
the wolf, and has originally no reference to barking."  (SwrrH.) 
Lycodon (see Lyncodon ). Fer:, Mustelidze. 

* Gray gave the type locality of L. maerodus as Brazil, but Thomas considers this 
an error and believes that the specimens came from India. (See Proc. Zool. Soc. 
London, 1889, 194.) 
