PEHUENIA-——PELEA. 519 
Pehuenia— Continued. 
Type: Pehuenia wehrlii Roth, from the upper ‘ Cretaceous’ of Lago Musters, Ter- 
ritory of Chubut, Patagonia. 
Extinct. 
Pehuenia: Pehuen-che, a tribe of Indians of Argentina living near the eastern base 
of the Andes. 
Pekania (subgenus of Martes) Gray, 1865. Fer, Mustelid:e. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865, 107-108; Cat. Carn., Pachyderm., & Edentate 
Mamm. Brit. Mus., 85, 1869. 
Type: Mustela pennanti Erxleben, from North America. 
Pekania: pekan, a common name of the species, ‘‘of unknown, or at least of no 
obvious, application . . . Compare ptan or petan, the Assiniboine name of 
the Otter, which may possibly have become transferred with modification to 
the present species." (Cougs, Fur Bearing Animals, 67, 1877.) 
Pelagios F. Cuvirr, 1824. Ferz, Pinnipedia, Phocid:e. 
Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, XI, 193-196, pl. 13 fig. 2, 1824. 
Pelagius CuvigRn, Dict. Sci. Nat., XXXIX, 549-550, 1826 (art ‘Phoques’). 
Pelagus McMvnriE, Cuvier's Anim. Kingdom, abridged ed. 71, 1834. 
Pelagias Auten, Mon. N. Am. Pinnipeds, 416 footnote, 1880 (quoted without 
specifie reference). 
Type: Phoca monachus Hermann, from the Mediterranean Sea. 
Name preoccupied by Pelagia Péron, 1809, a genus of Acalephee. Replaced by 
tigoon Gistel, 1848. (See Monachus Fleming, 1822; Pelagocyon Gloger, 1841; 
and Heliophoca Gray, 1854.) 
Pelagios: weA@yios, marine—in allusion to the animal’s habitat. 
Pelagocyon GrocEn, 1841. Fere, Pinnipedia, Phocidee. 
Hand- u. Hilfsbuch Naturgesch., I, pp. xxxiv, 163, 1841; Tuomas, Ann. & Mag. 
Nat. Hist., 6th ser., XV, 191, Feb. 1, 1895. 
Type: Phoca monachus Hermann, from the Mediterranean. (See Monachus 
Fleming, 1822.) 
Pelagocyon: zéA«yos, sea; «ocv, dog—in allusion to the animal's habitat. 
Pelamys Jourpan, 1867. Glires, Murid:e, Cricetinze. 
JoURDAN, in Fitzinger's Anordnung Nagethiere, Sitzungsber. Math.-Nat. Cl. K. 
Akad. Wiss., Wien, LVI, 76, 1867 (synonym of Sigmodon); TRovEssanT, Cat. 
Mamm. Viv. et Foss., Rodentia, in Bull. Soc. d' Études Sci. d'Angers, X, 144, 
1881 (under Sigmodon). 
Type: Pelamys remifer Jourdan, from the St. Johns River, Florida (Fitzinger). 
Name preoccupied by Pelamys Daudin, 1802-04, a genus of Reptilia; and by 
Pelamys Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1851, a genus of Pisces. 
Pelamys: mnAdos, clay, mud; /c0s, mouse. 
Peiandor Gray, 1843. Marsupialia, Macropodidee. 
List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. xxii, 1843; Tuomas, Cat. Marsup. & Monotrem. 
Brit. Mus., 86, 1888. 
This name as used by Gray is a nomen nudum. Thomas merely refers to it in 
synonymy, but gives as the type of the genus Dorcopsis mülleri (Schlegel), from 
northwestern New Guinea. 
Pelatia (see Petalia). Chiroptera, Megadermatide. 
Pelea (subgenus of Eleotragus) Gray, 1851. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Bovidee. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, for 1850, No. ccvirr, 126, Feb. 24, 1851; Cat. Ungu- 
lates Brit. Mus., 90, 1852 (raised to generic rank); Sctarer & Trowas, Book 
of Antelopes, II, pt. vii, 187-194, pl. xrvr, text fig. 44, Mar., 1897. 
Type: Antilope capreolus Bechstein, from South Africa, south of the Zambesi. 
See Pelia Gistel, 1848, a genus of Diptera. 
Pelea: ‘‘Peeli, the Bechuana name of this antelope.’? (Scrater & THomas.) 
