450 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Necrolestes AMEGHINO, 1891. Insectivora (Necrolestide ). 
Nuevos Restos Mamíf. Fés. Patagonia Austral, p. 17, Aug., 1891; Revista Argen- 
tina Hist. Nat:, I, entr. 5a, 909, Oct. 1; 8915 Enum. Syn. Mamm. Foss. 
Form. Eocénes Patagonie, 106-107, fig. 48, Feb., 1894. 
Type: Necrolestes patugonensis Ameghino, from the Eocene of southern Patagonia. 
Extinct. 
Necrolestes: veKpos, a dead body; Ayérns, robber. 
Necromanis Friuíuor, 1893. Effodientia, Manid:e. 
Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. et Paléont., Paris, 7? sér., XVI, Nos. 1-3, pp. 132-134, 
figs. 1-2, Dec. 15, 1893. 
Type: Vecromanis quercyi Filhol, from the Phosphorites of Quercy, near Bach, 
France. 
Extinct. Based on a humerus. 
Necromanis: vexpós, a dead body; + Manis—i. e., an extinct Manis. 
Necromantis WxrrrHorFER, 1887. Chiroptera, Phyllostomatidze. 
* Anz. Math.-Naturwiss. Cl. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 1887, 286" (fide Zool. Rec. 
for 1887, Mamm., 31); Sitzungsber. Math.-Naturwiss. Cl. K. Akad. Wiss., 
Wien, XCVI, Abth. r, for June-Dec., 1887, 353—359, Taf. figs. 18-21, 1888. 
Necromanter LypEKKER, Zool. Record for 1887, XXIV, Mamm., 31, 1888. 
Type: Necromantis adichaster Weithofer, from the Quercy Phosphorites of 
Escampes, near Lablengue, Dépt. Lot, France. 
Name preoccupied by Necromantes Gistel, 1848, a genus of Mollusca. Replaced 
by Necronycteris Palmer, 1903. 
Extinct. Based on part of the lower jaw with the second and third molars. 
Necromantis: vekpos, a dead body; u&rvrs, seer. 
Necromys AMEGHINO, 1889. Glires, Muridee, Cricetinze. 
Cont. Conocimiento Mamff. Fósil. Repüb. Argentina, in Act. Acad. Nac. Cien., 
Córdoba, VI, 120-121, pl. rv, figs. 17-18, 1889. 
Type: Necromys conifer Ameghino, from the Pliocene, Pampean formation, of the 
province of Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Mercedes, Olivera, and Lujan), 
Argentina. 
Extinct. Based on ‘‘un considerable numero de ramas mandibulares y varios 
maxilares superiores.”’ 
Necromys: veKpos, a dead body; “0s, mouse—' un género de ratones extinguidos.’ 
Necronycteris Parw«En, 1908. Chiroptera, Phyllostomatid:e. 
Science, new ser., X VII, 873, May 29, 1903. 
New name for Necromantis Weithofer, 1887, which is preoccupied by Necromantes 
Gistel, 1848, a genus of Mollusca. 
Necronycteris: vekpos, a dead body, i. e., extinet; vuKrepis, bat. 
Necrosorex Finnuor, 1890. Insectivora, Soricidze. 
Bull. Soc. Philomathique, Paris, 8^ sér., II, No. 4, pp. 174-175, figs. 1-3 in text, 
1890. 
Type: Necrosorex quercyi Filhol, from the Phosphorites of Quercy, France. 
Extinct. Based on '* une demi-máchoire inférieure ( mandibule droite)."' 
Necrosorer: vekpos, dead body; --Sorex—i. e., an extinct Sorex. 
Nectogale A. MitNr-Epwarps, 1870. Insectivora, Soricide. 
Comptes Rendus, Paris, LX X, 341, 1870; Recherches Mamm., 266, 1871. 
Type: Nectogale elegans A. Milne-Ed wards, from eastern Tibet. 
Nectogale: vnkros, swimming; «A5, weasel—in allusion to the broad-webbed 
hind feet, which adapt the animal for aquatic life. 
Nectoma (See Neotoma). Glires, Muridze, Neotomine. 
