NOTOCETUS— —NOTOPTERIS. 463 
Notocetus Moreno, 1892. Cete, Platanistidee. 
Revista Mus. La Plata, III, 397—400, lam. x1, 1892. 
Type: Notocetus vanbenedeni Moreno, from the Tertiary (probably Miocene) in the 
vicinity of Puerto Madryn, on Bahia Nueva, Territory of Chubut, Patagonia, 
Extinct. Based on ‘‘un cráneo completo con maxilares inferiores y parte de la 
columna vertebral del mismo individuo, y restos del cráneo y maxilares infe- 
riores incompletos de otro." 
Name preoccupied by Notiocetus Ameghino, 1891, a genus of extinct Baleenidee. 
Replaced by Diochotichus Ameghino, Feb., 1894; and by Argyrodelphis Lydekker, 
Apr., 1894. 
Notocetus: vóroc, south; «7jroc, whale. 
Notocynus Mercerar, 1891. Marsupialia, Didelphyidee. 
Revista Mus. La Plata, II, 80-81, 1891. 
Type: Notocynus hermosicus Mercerat, from the Miocene of Monte Hermoso, 
province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. 
Extinct. Based on ‘‘la rama izquierda imperfecta de un maxilar inferior." 
Notocynus: vóros, south; «ocv, kvvós, dog. 
Notohippus AwEramrwNo, 1891. Ungulata, Litopterna, Notohippid:e. 
Revista Argentina Hist. Nat., I [entr. 1a., 62, Feb. 1, 1891—nomen nudum], entr. 
3a, 135-136, fig. 22, June 1, 1891. 
Type: Notohippus toxodontoides Ameghino, from the Eocene of southern Patagonia. 
Extinct. 
Notohippus: vóros, south; Zzz0s, horse. 
Notohyrax AwrcGuiNo, 1901. Ungulata, Hyracoidea, Archzeohyracide. 
Bol. Acad. Nac. Cien. Córdoba, X VI, 362, July, 1901 (sep. p. 16). 
Type: Notohyrax conicus Ameghino, from the ‘Cretaceous’ of Patagonia. 
Extinet. 
Notohyrax: vóros, south; + Hyrax. 
Notomys Lesson, 1842. Glires, Murid:ze, Murine. 
Nouv. Tableau Régne Animal, Mamm., 129, 1842. 
Type: Dipus mitchellii Ogilby, from Western Australia. 
Notomys: vóros, south; “0s, mouse. 
Notophorus G. Fiscurer, 1817. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Tayassuidee. 
Mém. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, V, 373, 418, 1817; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 
1868, 43-44; Gru, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XV, 38-39, 1902; Tromas, ibid., 
153-154, 1902; ALLEN, ibid., 197, 1902. 
New name for Tayassu G. Fischer, 1814, and Dicotyles F. Cuvier, 1817. 
Notophorus: vcroQópos, carrying on the back—in allusion to the dorsal gland. 
Notopithecus Awramniwo, 1897. Primates, Notopithecid:e. 
La Argentina al través de las Ultimas Épocas Geológicas, 4-5, 13 footnote, 3 figs., 
1897; Bol. Inst. Geog. Argentino, XVIII, 419-421, figs. 1-6, Oct. 6, 1897. 
Species, 3: Notopithecus adapinus Ameghino, N. fossulatus Ameghino, and .N. sum- 
mus Ameghino, from the ‘ Cretaceous 
Extinct. 
Notopithecus: voros, south; 2i0nKos, ape. 
' of Patagonia. 
Notopteris Gray, 1859. Chiroptera, Pteropodid:e. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1859, 36-38, pl. rxvir; Donssow, Cat. Chiroptera Brit. 
Mus., 92-94, 1878. 
Type: Notopteris macdonaldii Gray, from Viti Levu, Fiji Islands. 
Notopteris: v&ros, back; zrepóv, wing—in allusion to the attachment of the 
wings along the central line of the back, as in Cephalotes, 
