599 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Peragalea, Peragale (see Paragalia). Marsupialia, Peramelidze. 
Peragonium llArckEL, 1895. Marsupialia, ? 
Syst. Phylogenie Werbelthiere, III, 466, 481, 484, 1895. 
Type: Peragonium promarsupium Haeckel, from the Lias (?). A hypothetical 
genus, supposed to be characterized by numerous teeth, probably 70 or 80. 
Peragonium: apa, pouch; yovevs, ancestor—i. e., an ancestral marsupial. 
Peralestes Owen, 1871. Marsupialia, Triconodontide. 
Mesozoic Mamm., in Mon. Paleeontograph. Soc., XXIV [No. 5,], 33-37, pl. 1 
figs. 3, 4, 1871. 
Perolestes WINGE, E Museo Lundi, 1893, 118. 
Type: Peralestes longirostris Owen, from the Purbeck of Durdlestone Bay, Swan- 
age, Dorsetshire, England. 
Extinct. Based on parts of the upper and lower jaws. 
Peralestes: mHpa, pouch; Agór29s, robber—i. e., a carnivorous marsupial. 
Peralopex GrocEn, 1841. Marsupialia, Dasyuride. 
Hand- u. Hilfsbuch Naturgesch., I, pp. xxx, 82-83; 1841; THowas, Ann. & Mag. 
Nat. Hist., 6th ser., XV, 190, Feb. 1, 1895. 
New name for Thylacynus Temminck, 1827. 
Peralopex: z9»p«, pouch; dA@mnz, fox—'pouched fox,’ the largest existing 
predaceous Marsupial. 
Perameles É. Grorrnov, 1804. Marsupialia, Peramelide. 
Bull. Soc. Philomatique, Paris, III, 150, Nov., 1804; Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. IV, 
56-65, pls. 44-45, 1804; Tuomas, Cat. Marsup. & Monotrem. Brit. Mus., 227— 
249, 1888. 
Parameles Grirrirn, Cuvier's Anim. Kingdom, V, 194, 1827; ——, London Ency- 
clopeedia, X XII, 743, 1845 (art. Zoology). 
Perimeles Lenz, Naturgesch. Sáugethiere, 158, 1831. 
Peromeles W1NGE, E Museo Lundi, 1893, 124. 
Type not named in the first article. ‘‘ L'espéce sur laquelle nous avons pris cette 
description est nouvelle . . . À ce genre appartient le porculine opossum 
décrit dans la Zoologie générale de Schaw." (1. ¢., Bull. Soc. Philom.) These 
two species are given in the ‘Annales,’ as Perameles nasuta Geoffroy (type), 
from eastern Australia; and Didelphis obesula Shaw, from southern Australia. 
Perameles: z9»)pa, pouch; + Meles. 
Peramelopsis HEvpg, 1897. Marsupialia, Peramelidze. 
Mém. Hist. Nat. Empire Chinois, III, pt. 3, p. 143 footnote, pl. rv figs. 21-22, 
1897 (provisional name). 
Type: Peramelopsis welsianus Heude, from Great Key, Key Islands, Malay Archi- 
pelago. 
Peramelopsis: Perameles; Óvts, appearance. 
Peramus Owen, 1871. Marsupialia, Amphitheriidze. 
Mesozoic Mamm., in Mon. Paleeontograph. Soc., XXIV [No. 5], 41-44, pl. 1 
figs. 10-13, 1871. 
Peromys WiNaE, E Museo Lundi, 1895, 118. 
Type: Peramus tenuirostris Owen, from the Purbeck of Durdlestone Bay, Swanage, 
Dorsetshire, England. ; 
Name preoccupied by Peramys Lesson, 1842, a genus of Didelphyide. 
Extinct. Based on three mandibular rami. 
Peramus: z9)p« , pouch; 4s, mouse—i. e., a pouched mouse; so named from its 
small size and marsupial affinities. 
Peramys Lesson, 1842. Marsupialia, Didelphyid:e. 
Nouv. Tableau Régne Animal, Mamm., 187, 1842; THomas, Cat. Marsup. & 
Monotrem. Brit. Mus., 354, 1888 (type fixed). 
