486 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Osmetectis— Continued. 
Type: Viverra fusca * Gray, from India. 
Osmetectis: d6jnTOs, that can be smelled; Z«r:s, weasel—from the fetid fluid 
which the animal expels from its anal glands. 
Osmotherium Corr, 1896. Ferze, Mustelidze. 
[Zool. Anzeiger, XIX, No. 508, p. 336, July 20, 1896—nomen nudum. ] 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1896, pt. rr, 385-386, Apr.-Aug., 1896; Journ. Acad. 
Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d ser., XI, pt. 2, 230-231, pl. xvii, fig. 6, 1899. 
Type: Osmotherium speleum Cope, from the Pleistocene of the Port Kennedy 
bone cave, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. 
Extinct. ‘‘ Represented by a left mandibular ramus which contains alveoli or 
roots of the C. and Pm. 4-2, with Pm. 1, and Ms. 1-2 perfectly preserved." 
Osmotherium: 664%), smell; Gyptov, wild beast—in allusion to the Musteline 
affinities of the genus. 
Osphranter Govrp, 1842. Marsupialia, Macropodidee. 
Proe. Zool. Soe. London, for 1841, No. cv, 80-81, Mar., 1842; THomas, Cat. 
Marsup. & Monotrem. Brit. Mus., 10, 1888 (in synonomy, type fixed). 
Osphrantes GigBEL, Die Si ection: 677 footnote, 1859. 
Species: Osphranter antilopinus Gould (type), from Port Essington, North Aus- 
tralia; and O. (?) isabellinus Gould, from Barrow Island, northwestern coast 
of Australia. 
Osphranter: d6ppavryptos, able to smell, sharp-smelling—in allusion to the 
' great expansion of the muzzle’ and dilatation of the nasal bones. 
Osteopera HanraN, 1825. Glires, Dasy proctidze. 
Fauna licit cana 126-131, 1825. 
Type: Osteopera platycephala Harlan ( — Celogenys paca—see BArgp, Mamm. N. 
Am., 566, 1857), based on a skull found on the shore of the Delaware River. 
Osteopera: ó6réov, bone; mea, pouch—in allusion to the hollowed jugals. 
Otaclinus (see Otolicnus). Primates, Lemuridee. 
Otailurus (subgenus of Felis) Severrzow, 1858. l'erze, Felidee. 
Revue et Mag. de Zool., Paris, 2° sér., X, 388, 390, Sept., 1858. 
Type: Felis ( Oteilurus) megalotis Müller, from Timor. 
Otailurus: + ovs, Gróc, ear; aidovpos, cat. 
Otaria PÉnoN, 1816. Fere, Otariidee. 
Voy. Terres Australes, II, 37 footnote, 40, 1816; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lon- 
don, 1859, 360-361; ALLEN, Mon. N. Am. Pinnipeds, 208, 1880; Brpparp, 
Trans. Zool. Soc. London, XII, 379, Apr., 1890. 
Oterites , London Encyclopedia, X XII, 742, 1845 (art. Zoology). 
Type: Otaria leonina Péron ( — Phoca jubata Forster), from the southern coasts of 
South America. 
Otaria: @rc&ptor, a little ear (dim. of oos, órós, ear). 
Otelaphus FrrziNGER, 1874. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Cervidee. 
Sitzungsber. Math.-Nat. Cl. K. Akad. Wiss., Wien, LX VIII, Abth. 1, for 1873, 
347-348, 356-357, 1874. 
New name for Macrotis Wagner, 1855, which is preoccupied by Macrotis Dejean, 
1833, a genus of Coleoptera; by Macrotis Reid, 1836, a genus of Marsupialia; and 
by Macer otus Gray, 1843, a genus of Chiroptera 
Ote QUON 95s, « @tos, ear; €Aa@qos, deer—in Amts to the large ears. 


* Gray in 1864 mentions Viverra p OE Urva cancrivora (=Gulo urva). 
Thomas gives the latter as the type, but apparently does not consider it the same 
species. 
f The prefix Ot-, from ots @rés, ear, is used (except in a few cases like Otocolobus) 
to denote possession of /«rge ears. The size of the ear, however, is merely relative. 
It may be bese ue y small as in Otaria, although actually large in comparison with 
that of the ‘earless’ seals. 
