466 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Nyctiellus Gervais, 1855. Chiroptera, Natalidze. 
Expd. Comte de Castelnau Am. du Sud, Zool., Mamm., 84, pl. xv, fig. 6, 1855. 
_ Nycticellus Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d ser., XVII, 91, Feb., 1866; Mar- 
scHALL, Nomenclator Zool., Mamm., 9, 1873. 
_ Type: Vespertilio lepidus Gervais, from Cuba. 
Nyctiellus: Dim. of yv«Krzos, nocturnal. 
Nyctilestes Marsn, 1872. Chiroptera, Vespertilionidee. 
Am. Journ. Sci. & Arts, 3d ser., IV, 215-216, Sept., 1872 (sep. issued Aug. 13). 
Type: Nyctilestes serotinus Marsh, from the Eocene of Grizzly Buttes, near Fort 
Bridger, Wyoming. 
Extinct. Based on ‘part of a lower jaw with the last three molars perfect.’ 
Nyctilestes: v8, vvKTOS, night; Agór?9s, robber. 
Nyctimene Becusrern, 1800. Chiroptera, Pteropodid:e. 
** Syst. Uebers. Vierf. Thiere, II, 615, 736*, 1800" (fide THomas); Oken, Lehrbuch 
Naturgesch., 3ter Theil, Zool., 2te Abth., 937-938, 1816; THomas, Proc. Biol. 
Soc. Wash., XV, 198, Oct. 10, 1902 (name revived). 
Type: Vespertilio cephalotes Pallas, from the Molucca Islands. 
Nyctimene Bechstein antedates Cephalotes Geoffroy, 1810. 
Nyctimene: vv&, vvkrós, night. 
Nyctimene Becusrein, 1801. Chiropteva, ? 
Gemeinnütz. Naturgesch. Deutschlands, I, 215, 1801. 
Based on the ‘Schwungmaus,’ which is described as follows: ‘‘In der obern 
Kinnlade stehen zwey, in der untern keine Vorderzihne. Der Schwanz ist 
dan aru 
See Nyctimene Bechstein, 1800. 
Nyctimones (see Nyctinomus). Chiroptera, Noctilionid:e, 
Nyctinomops Miter, 1902. Chiroptera, Noctilionide. 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Sept. 12, 1902, 393-395. 
Type: Nyctinomus femorosaccus Merriam, from Agua Caliente (=Palm Springs), 
Colorado Desert, California. 
Nyctinomops: Nyctinomus; Ov, aspect. 
Nyctinomus Grorrroy, 1813. Chiroptera, Noctilionidee. 
Descr. l'Égy pte, II, 114, 128-130, pl. 2, No. 2, 1813; OkEw, Lehrbuch Naturgesch., 
3ter Theil, Zool., 2te Abth., 924-925, 1816. 
Nyctinoma Bowpicn, Anal. Nat. Class. Mamm., 28, 1821. 
Nyctimones Gray, London Med. Repos., XV, 299, Apr. 1, 1821. 
Nyctinomia FLemMinG, Philos. of Zoology, II, 178, 1822. 
, London Encyclopedia, X XII, 758, 1845 (art. Zoology). 
Type: Nyctinomus «xgyptiacus Geoffroy, from Egypt. 
Nyctinomus: v 08, vvkróc, night; vouós, habitation (‘habitaculum,’ AcaAssiz). 
Nyctipithecus Spix, 1823. Primates, Cebid:e. 
Sim. et Vespert. Brasil. Nov. Spec., 24-26, tab. xvirr-xix, 1823. 
Species: Nyctipithecus felinus Spix, from the vicinity of the city of Para, Brazil; 
and V. vociferans Spix, from the Rio Solimoens (upper Amazon), near Taba- - 
tinga and Mainas, on the Peruvian border of Brazil. (See 4otes Humboldt, 

Myctonome 
1811.) 
Nyctipithecus: vv&, vuKtos, night; 2i§7Kos, ape—from its nocturnal habits. 
Ms rt GRAY, 1849. Chiroptera, Phyllostomatidze. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, for 1848, No. ctxxxiv, 58, Jan. 30, 1849. 
Type: Nyctiplanus rotundatus Gray, from Brazil: 
Nyctiplanus: vvkrizÀAavos, roaming by night (from »$8&, vvxrós, night; 
zÀ«v os, seaming): 

2n T page reference is Tou Sherborn E TEES EG 1149, 1902 REUS the name 
is spelled Nyctemene. 
