OTERITES—OTOES. 487 
Oterites (see Otaria). Fer:e, Otariide. 
Othnielmarshia AmeEGuino 1901. Primates (Henricosbornidee ). 
Bol. Acad. Nac. Cien. Córdoba, XVI, 358, July, 1901 (sep. p. 12). 
Type: Othnielmarshia lacunifera Ameghino, from the ‘Cretaceous’ of Patagonia. 
Extinct. 
Othnielmarshia: In honor of Othniel Charles Marsh, 1831-1899; author of * Mono- 
graph of the Dinocerata,’ 1886, and many papers on extinct vertebrates of the 
western United States. 
Otiphoca* (subgenus of Phoca) BLAINvILLE, 1840. Ferz, Pinnipedia, Otariidze. 
Ostéog. Mamm. Viv. et Foss., IL (G. Phoca), pp. [49] 50; expl. pls. 11, vr, vu, 
vill, 1x, 1840. 
Type: Phoca jubata, from the coasts of South America. 
Otiphoca: obs, róc, ear; +-Phoca. 
Otisorex Dr Kay, 1842. . Insectivora, Soricidze. 
Zool. New York, I, Mamm., 22-23, pl. v fig. 1, 1842. 
Species: Otisorex platyrhinus De Kay, from Tappan, Rockland County, New York; 
and O. longirostris (=Sorex longirostris Bachman), from the Santee River, 
South Carolina. 
Otisorex: ovs, Gros, ear; -Sorex. 
Otocebus (subgenus of Cebus) ReicuEeNBACH, 1862. Primates, Cebidee. 
Vollstiind. Naturgesch. Affen, 55-56, pls. vii—vin, figs. —, 1862. 
Species, 10: Cebus frontatus Kuhl, C. vellerosus I. Geoffroy, C. hypomelas Pucheran, 
C. cristatus Lesson, C. elegans I. Geoffroy, C. cirrifer É. Geoffroy, C. niger É. 
Geoffroy, C. lunatus Kuhl, €. fatuellus Erxleben, and C. azare Rengger, all 
trom South America. 
Otocebus: os, rds, ear; + Cebus. 
Otocolobus (subgenus) Branpr, 1844. Glires, Sciuridee. 
Bull. Cl. Phys.-Math. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Pétersbourg, II, 382, 1844. 
Apparently merely a synonym of Colobotis (type Sper mophilus , fulvus Keyserling 
& Blasius), | described previously in the same paper. 
Otocolobus: ovs, @r6s, ear; xoAoffóc, mutilated—in allusion to the short ears. 
Otocolobus (subgenus of Felis) SEvERTZOWw, 1858. Fer, Felidee. 
Revue et Mag. de Zool., Paris, 2° sér., X, 386, 390, Sept., 1858. 
Octalobus Erzi0r, Mon. Felidz (under Felis manul), plate, 1883 (misprint). 
Type: Felis ( Otocolobus) manul Pallas, from Tibet. 
Name preoccupied by Otocolobus Brandt, 1844, a subgenus of Glires. 
Otocolobus: obs, àróc, ear; koAoffóc, mutilated—in allusion to the short ears. 
Otocyon ('LicnrENsTEIN!) MtrLEn, 1836. Fer», Canidee. 
MéürrER, Archiv Anat. & Phys. for 1835, p. 1, 1856; WErGMANN, Archiv Natur- 
gesch., 1838, I, 290-293. 
Octocyon AMEGHINO, Act. Acad. Nac. Cien., Córdoba, VI, 
Royal Nat. Hist., I, p. xii, 1893-94. 
Type: Otocyon caffer Lichtenstein (— Canis megalotis Desmarest), from the Cape of 
Good Hope. 
Otocyon: ovs, Orós, ear; KU@Y, dog—‘eared dog,’ in allusion to the large ears. 
Otoes G. Fiscnrer, 1817. Ferz, Pinnipedia, Otariid:e. 
Mém. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, V, 373, 445, 1817; Paumer, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 
XIV, 133-134, Aug. 9, 1901 (type given as P. ursina) ; ALLEN, Bull. Am. Mus. 
Nat. E N. Y., XVI, 115-118, Mar. 15, 1902. 
Otoés AG^ssiz, Nomenclator Zool., Mamm., 23, 1842. 

311, 1889; LvpEKKER, 


* The name is misprinted Oliphaca in the only place in which it occurs in Latin 
form (expl. pl. vu). On the previous page (49) it is given in the French form 
* Otiphoque.' 
