390 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Lyncodon (subgenus of Mustela) Gervais, 1844. Fer», Mustelidee. 
D'Orbigny's Dict. Univ. Hist. Nat., IV, 2° pt., 685, 1844 (art. ‘ Dents’); D'On- 
BIGNY, Voy. Amerique Mérid., Mamm., 20, 1847; Burmersrer, Desc. Phys. 
Répub. Argentine, III, pt. 1, Mamm., 160-162, 1879 (raised to generic rank). 
Lycodon Gray, Cat. Carn., Pachyderm., & Edentate Mamm. Brit. Mus., 134, 1869 
(under Conepatus). 
Type: Mustela patagonica Blainville, from the Rio Negro, Patagonia. 
Lyncodon: Abyé, lynx; 086v = ó0 obs, tooth—from the molar teeth. — ** Mustela 
patagonica, n'a que trois paires de molaires à chaque máchoire . . . et nous 
proposerons, à cause de cette particularité, de la distinguer comme type d'un 
sous-genre à part." (GERVAIS. ) 
Lynx (subgenus of [vlis) Kerr, 1792. Fer, Felid:e. 
Animal Kingdom, I, Mamm., Syst. Cat., Nos. 288-299, pp. 41, 155-158 (full 
genus) 1792; RArrNEsSQUE, Analyse de la Nature, 59, 1815; Am. Monthly Mag., 
I, No. 6, p. 437, Oct. 1817; Ibid., II, No. 1, p. 46, Nov. 1817; OxEn, Lehrb. Natur- 
gesch, 3ter Theil, Zool., 2te Abth., 1048-1052, 1816; ALLEN, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat.. 
Hist., VII, 181, 182, June 19, 1895; MirrLER & REHw, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. 
Hist., XXX, 199-201, Dec., 1901 (type fixed). 
Lynceus Gray, London Med. Repos., XV, 302, Apr. 1, 1821 (preoccupied). 
Lyncus Gray, Thomson’s Ann. Philos, XXVI, 339, Nov. 1825; Dexay, Zool. 
New York, Mamm., p. 50, pl. 10 fig. 2, 1842. . 
Iynchus JagpiNE, Nat. Library, Mamm., II, 274-275, 1834; 2! ed., Mamm., I, 
182, 1858; II, 274-276, 1858; SEvERTZOW, Revue et Mag. de Zool., Paris, 2° sér., 
X, 385, 390, Sept., 1858. 
Species and subspecies, 12: Lynx chaus, L. montana, L. caracal, L. bengalensis, L. 
nubiensis, L. lybiensis, L. vulgaris ( — Felis lynx Linneeus, type), L. vulgaris alba, 
L. vulgaris melina, L. vulgaris maculata, L. canadensis and L. rufa. 
Lynx: Abyé, lynx, probably from its bright eyes. From Greek root Av«—, in 
Avyvos, lamp, Aev66c to see, ete. (Century Dict.) 
Lyroderma (subg. of Megaderma) Perers, 1872. Chiroptera, Megadermatide. 
Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., Berlin, Mar., 1872, 195-196; Doxson, Cat. 
Chiroptera Brit. Mus., 155, 1878. 
Type: Megaderma lyra Geoffroy, from India. 
Lyroderma: Avpa, lyre; dépsa, skin—probably from the lyre-shaped nose leaf. 
Lysiurus Amecuino, 1891. Edentata, Dasypodide. 
Revista Argentina Hist. Nat., I, entr. 4a, 254, Aug. 1, 1891; LvpEKKER, Roy. 
Nat. Hist., III, 222, 1895. 
New name for Yenurus Wagler, 1830, which is preoccupied by Xenurus Boie, 
1826, a genus of Birds. Antedated by Cabassous MeMurtrie, 1831. 
Lysiurus: ÀAo610c, loosing; obpc, tail—in allusion to the naked tail? 
Lyssodes Gisrkr, 1848. Primates, Cercopithecide. 
Naturgesch. Thierreichs f. hóhere Schulen, p. ix, 1848. 
Type: Macacus arctoides I. Geoffroy, from Cochin China. 
Lyssodes: Av6Ga, rage, fury; &2006, form. 
M. 
Macaca Lac£rEpE, 1799. Primates, Cercopithecidee. 
"Tabl. Mamm., 4, 1799; Nouv. Tabl. Méth., Mamm., in Mém. l'Institut, Paris, 
III, 490, 1801. 
Macacus DEsMAREsT, Mammalogie, I, 63, 1820. 
Macaco RrrGEN, Nat. Eintheilung Süugth., 33 [Tafel]. 1824: VoricT, Cuvier's 
Thierreich, I, 83-86, 1831. 
Type: Simia inuus Linnzeus, from North Africa 
