530 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
'" Phascolestes— Continued. 
Species: Peralestes ( Phascolestes?) longirostris Owen, and P. dubius Owen (type), 
from the Purbeck of Durdlestone Bay, Swanage, Dorsetshire, England. 
Extinct. Based on portions of jaws. 
Phascolestes: @&6K@Aos, leathern bag; Agór5s, robber—i. e., a ‘marsupial 
carnivore.’ 
Phascologale (see Phascogale). Marsupialia, Dasyuride. 
Phascololestes (see Phascolestes). Marsupialia, Amphitheriidz. 
Phascolomis Grorrroy, 1808. Marsupialia, Phascolomyide. 
Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, II, 364-367, 1803. 
Phascolomys YuvuiGER, Prodromus Syst. Mamm. et Avium, 78, 1811; THomas, Cat. 
Marsup. & Monotrem. Brit. Mus., 213, 1888. 
Type: Didelphis ursina Shaw, from Tasmania (fide Thomas). 
Phascolomis: @a6KwAos, leathern bag; “40s, mouse—i. e., ‘marsupial mouse.’ 
Phascolonus (subg. of Phascolomys) OWEN, 1872. Marsupialia, Phascolomyide. 
Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, CLXII, 251 footnote, 257, pls. xxxvi, xxxv, 
xxxvIII figs. 1, 3, 4; xxxix figs. 1-3, xr, 1872 (provisional name); LyDEKKER, 
Cat. Foss. Mamm. Brit. Mus., pt. v, 157-160, 1887 (raised to generic rank). 
Type: Phascolomys ( Phascolonus) gigas Owen, from the Pleistocene of Queensland. 
Extinct. 
Phascolonus: @&6K@Aos, leathern bag; 6vos, ass—i. e., a ‘marsupial ass,’ prob- 
ably in allusion to its size, the type species being about the size of a tapir. 
.Phascolotherium Owen, 1838. Marsupialia, Triconodontide. 
Proc. Geol. Soc. London, III, 9, 1838; Echo du Monde Savant, Paris, 5° ann., 
367, Dec., 1838; 6° ann., No. 403, p. 29, Jan. 12, 1839; Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 
1839, 9; '* Trans. Geol. Soc., 2d ser., VI, pt. 1, 58, 1841." 
Type: Didelphis bucklandi Broderip, from the lower Jurassic slate of Stonesfield, 
Oxfordshire, England. 
Extinct. Based on a lower jaw. 
Phascolotherium: @a6K@dAos, pouch; 65píor, wild beast—from its marsupial 
affinities ‘‘ manifested in the simple form, small size, and straggling disposi- © 
tion of the incisors and canines." 
Phatages (subgenus of Manis) SuNDEVALL, 1848. Effodientia, Manide. 
K. Vetensk. Acad. Handlingar, Stockholm, for 1842, 258-261, 273, 1843; Gray, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865, 368-369; Cat. Carn., Pachyderm., & Edentate 
Mamm. Brit. Mus., 373, 1869. 
Type: Manis laticauda Illiger, from India. ‘‘Sectio nostra . . . ultima denique, 
. . . forsan appellanda est nomine Z7Eliani, Phatages vel Phatagenus, quod 
nomen neque more Buffoniano Phatagin vel Phataginus scribendum est." 
(SUNDEVALL, p. 273.) 
Phatages: Phatagin or phatagen, East Indian name of the scaly ant-eater, adopted 
by Buffon in 1763. 
Phataginus RarrNEsqUE, 1820. Effodientia, Manidee. 
[Analyse de la Nature, 57, 1815 (nomen nudum—‘ Phataginus R. Manis sp. L.’).] 
‘“RAFINESQUE, Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys. Bruxelles, VII, 214, 1820”’ (fide SuNDEVALL, 
K. Vetensk. Acad. Handlingar, Stockholm, for 1842, 270, 1843. 
Phatagin Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865, 363-365, 2 figs. in text; Cat. 
Carn., Pachyderm., & Edentate Mamm. Brit. Mus., 368-370, 2 figs. in text, 
1869; Hand-List Edentate, Thick-skinned & Ruminant Mamm. Brit. Mus., 7, 
1873. 
Species: Manis tricuspis Rafinesque, from West Africa; and M. ceonyx Rafinesque 
(fide Sundevall). 
