
PARASCAPTOR—PARDALIS. |. 515 
Parascaptor Girr, 1875. Insectivora, Talpide. 
Bull. U. S. Geol. & Geog. Surv. Terr., 2d ser., No. 2, p. 110, May 14, 1875. 
Type: Tulpa leucura Blyth, from India. 
Parascaptor: mapa, beside, near; 6«zro, to dig. 
Parasciurus (subgenus of Sciurus) TRovEssAnT, 1880. Glires, Sciuridee. 
Le Naturaliste, II, No. 37, p. 292, Oct. 1, 1880; Cat. Mamm., in Bull. Soc. d’ Études 
Sci. d' Angers, X, 1° fasc., 77-78, 1880; Bull. U. S. Geol. & Geog. Surv. Terr., 
VI, No. 2, p. 305, Sept. 19, 1881; Tuomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1897, 933. 
Type: Sciurus niger Linnzeus, based on Catesby’s description and plate of an ani- 
mal from the Carolinas. 
Parasciurus: wapa, beside, near; --Sceiurus—in allusion especially to its relation- 
ships with Neosciurus. 
Parasorex Mxrvrn, 1865. Inseetivora, Tupaiidee. 
Neues Jahrb. Mineralogie, 1865, 844—845. 
Type: Parasorex socialis Meyer, from Steinheim, near Ulm, Wurttemberg. 
Extinct. Based on 11 right and 17 left lower jaws. 
Parasorex: mapa, beside, near; -}-Sorex. 
Parastrapotherium AMEGHINO, 1895. Ungulata, Astrapotheriid:e. 
Bol. Inst. Geog. Argentino, XV, cuad. 11-12, 635-641, 1895 (sep. pp. 35-41). 
Species, 5: Parastrapotherium holmbergi Ameghino, P. trouessarti Ameghino, 
Astrapotherium ephebicum Ameghino, Parastrapotherium lemoinei Ameghino, and 
?P. cingulatum Ameghino, from the Pyrotherium beds of Patagonia. 
Extinct. 
Parastrapotherium: mapa, near; + Astrapotherium. 
Parastylops Amrecuino, 1897. Tillodontia, Notostylopide. 
La Argentina al través de las Ultimas Épocas Geológicas, 16 footnote, 1897 
(nomen nudum); Bol. Inst. Geog. Argentino, XVIII, 491-492, fig. 71, Oct. 6, 
1897 (sep. pp. 87-88). 
Type: Parastylops celodus Ameghino, from the ‘Cretaceous’ of Patagonia. 
Extinct. 
Parastylops: mapa, beside, near; óroAos, pillar; Ow, aspect. 
Paratapirus DrEPERET, 1902. Ungulata, Perissodactyla, Tapiride. 
Mem. Soc. Paléont. Suisse, XXIX, 1902 (sep. pp. 34-39, pl. v, figs. 6-9). 
Type: Tapirus helveticus Meyer, from the Oligocene of Othmarsingen, Aargau, 
northern Switzerland. 
Extinct. Based on a skull including the lower jaw. 
Paratapirus: mapa, beside, near; + Tapirus. 
Paraxerus (subgenus of Verus) FonsvrH-Mazon, 1893. Glires, Sciuridze. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, June 1, 1893, 189, pls. vir figs. 15, 22-24, 1x figs. 15, 
22-24; TRovEssART, Cat. Mamm., new ed., fasc. rr, 405—408, 1897; THomas, 
Proc. Zool. Soe. London, 1897, 933 (type fixed). 
Species, 7: erus cepapi (Smith, type), X. palliatus Peters, X. pyrropus (F. Cuvier), 
X. congicus (Kuhl), X. lemniscatus (Le Conte), X. isabella Gray, and NX. boehmi 
( Reichenow), from Africa. 
Paraxerus: wapd, beside, near; + Xerus. 
Pardalina Gnav, 1867. Fer, Felid:e. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867, 266-267, fig. 4; Cat. Carn., Pachyderm., & Eden- 
tate Mamm. Brit. Mus., 14, fig. 4, 1869. 
Type: Pardalina warwickii Gray ( — Felis himalayanus Warwick), from the Hima- 
layas, India. 
Pardalina: Dim. of Lat. pardalis, panther. 
Pardalis (subgenus of Felis) Gray, 1867. Ferve, Felid:e. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867, 270-272; Cat. Carn., Pachyderm., & Edentate 
Mamm. Brit. Mus., 19, 1869. 
Species, 4: Wis pardalis Linnzeus (type), F. grisea Gray, F. melanura Ball, and 
F. picta Gray, from tropical America. 
Pardalis: zt &p8 aic, panther, pard. 
