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Otoes— Continued. 
Species: Phoca. jubata Gmelin (not Schreber, type) and P. ursina Gmelin. 
As shown by Allen, Otoes was in reality based on P. jubata Gmelin (a composite 
species ‘‘equivalent to the genera Otaria and Eumetopias as now currently 
restricted" ), and is a synonym of Otaria Péron, 1816. 
Otovs: @r@e1s, eared—i. e., an eared seal. 
Otogale Gray, 1863. 2 Primates, Lemuridee. 
Proe. Zool. Soc. London, 1863, 139-140, 2 figs. in text; Cat. Monkeys, Lemurs & 
Fruit-eating Bats Brit. Mus., 79-81, 4 figs. in text, 1870; W. L. SCLATER, 
Mamm. 8. Africa, I, 18, 1900 (type fixed). 
Species, 3: Otolicnus garnettii Ogilby (type), from Port Natal; Galago crassicaudatus 
Geoffroy, from southeast Africa; and Otogale pallida Gray, from Fernando Po, 
West Africa. 
Otogale: ovs, OrOc, ear; aA», weasel—from the large, membranaceous ears. 
Otognosis Cours, 1875. Glires, Heteromyid:e. 
Proe. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1875, 305 (provisional name). 
Type: Otognosis longimembris Coues, from Fort Tejon, Kern County, California. 
Otognosis: ovs, OrOc, ear; y vOGic, knowing, recognition—''in allusion to the 
facility with which the species may be distinguished from those of Perognathus 
by the structure of the ear."  (Covzs.) 
Otolemur CoqvEnEL, 1859. Primates, Lemuride. 
Revue et Mag. de Zool., 2° sér., XI, 458-460, pls. 17, 18 fig. 1, Nov., 1859. 
Type: Otolemur agisymbanus Coquerel, from the island of Agisymbana, on the 
coast of Zanzibar, southeast Africa. 
Otolemur: ous, Grósc, ear; +Lemur. 
Otolicnus IrriGER, 1811. Primates, Lemuridee. 
Prodromus Syst. Mamm. et Avium, 74, 1811. 
Otolincus McMvnrRIE, Cuvier's Anim. Kingdom, I, 74, 1831. 
Otoleneus McMvnrRnig, ibid, abridged ed., 50, 1834. 
Otolichnus Borrarp, Jardin des Plantes, 91, 1842. 
Otaclinus , London Encyclopszedia, X XII, 736, 1845 (art. Zoology). 
Stolienus (‘FLEMING’) Gray, Cat. Monkeys, Lemurs, and Fruit-Eating Bats Brit. 
Mus., 91, 1870 (misprint). 
Type: Lemur galago Schreber, from West Africa. 
Name antedated by Galago E. Geoffroy, 1796. 
Otolicnus: GróAucvos, with large ears (from ovs, àrós, ear; Ai«voy, winnowing 
fan). 
Otolicnus G. Fiscugn, 1814. Ferie, Canidee. 
Zoognosia [3d ed., I, 14, 1813—nomen nudum]; III, 212-214, 1814. 
Type: Canis cerdo Gmelin, from the Sahara, North Africa. 
Name preoccupied by Otolicnus Tiger, 1811, a genus of Primates. (See Fennecus 
Desmarest, 1804; and Megalotis Iliger, 1811.) 
Otomys F. Cuvier, 1823. Glires, Murid:e, Ctomyine. 
Dents Mammiféres, 168-169, 255, pl. Lx, 1823; Hist. Nat. Mamm., VII, livr. 60, 
pl. with 2 pp. text, Sept., 1829 (O. unisulcatus); livr. 61, pl. with 2 pp. text, 
Oct., 1829 (O. bisulcatus); Smuts, Enum. Mamm. Cap., 45-46, 1832; W. L. 
ScLATER, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., I, pt. 2, pp. 195-198, Mar., 1899 (type fixed). 
Species (subsequently named ): Otomys unisulcatus F. Cuvier, Sept., 1829, and O. 
bisulcatus F. Cuvier, Oct., 1829 ( — Mus irroratus, Lichtenstein, 1827, type), from 
the Cape of Good Hope. 
Otomys: ovs, Gróc, ear; 0s, mouse. 
Otomys A. Smirn, 18384. Glires, Muridze, Dendromyine. 
S. Afr. Quart. Journ., II, No. 2, pp. 147-148, Jan.-Mar., 1834; Ill. Zool. S. 
Africa, Mamm., pt. xiv, tab. 33, Sept., 1841; W. L. ScLATER, Ann. S. Afr. 
Mus., I, pt. 2, p. 201, Mar., 1899 (in synonymy, type fixed). 

