534 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Phorbantus—Continued. 
New name for Anisony« Rafinesque, 1817, which is preoccupied by Anisonyx 
Latreille, 1807, a genus of Coleoptera. 
Phorbantus: Pop), fodder; avr&c, to partake of—in allusion to its food, which 
consists largely of herbage. (This is less applicable to the ground squirrels 
than to the aplodontia, the animal to which the name Anisonyx was formerly 
supposed to apply.) * 
[Phorusrhacos AmEGHINO, 1887. Aves. 
Enum. Sist. Especies Mamíf. Fós. Patagonia Austral, p. 24, Dec., 1887. 
Phororhacos AMEGHINO, Revista Argentina, I, entr. 4a, 255-259, Aug. 1, 1891. 
Type: Phorusrhacos longissimus Ameghino, from the lower Tertiary of southern 
Patagonia. Described as an Edentate, but subsequently shown to be a bird. 
Extinct. 
Phororhacos: @opos, bearing; PaKos, rags, pieces—doubtless in reference to the 
fragmentary condition of the remains. ] 
Phractomys Prrers, 1867. Glires, Lophiomyide. 
Zeitschr. gesammt. Naturwiss. Halle, XXIX, Correspondenzbl. rr, 195, Feb., 1867. 
Type: Phractomys aethiopicus Peters, from the quarries of Maman, north of Kassala, 
northeast Africa. (See Lophiomys Milne-Edwards, 1867. ) 
Phractomys: @pakros, protected; “0s, mouse. 
Phregatherium (see Phugatherium). Glires, Caviidee. 
Phtoramys AmecHino, 1887. Glires, Octodontidee. 
Apuntes Prelim. sobre Mamíf. Estinguidos de Monte Hermoso, 4-5, Apr., 1887; 
Act. Acad. Nac. Cien., Córdoba, VI, 160-161, pls. vir figs. 7-8, x, fig. 28, 1889. 
Phloromys LvbDEKKER, Zool. Record for 1887, xxiv, Mamm., 36, 1888 (misprint). 
Type: Phtoramys homogenidens Ameghino, from Monte Hermoso, about 40 miles 
east of Bahia Blanea, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. 
Extinct. Based on a right lower jaw with an incisor and the first three molars. 
Phtoramys: P§opc, destruction, ruin; 0s, mouse. 
Phugatherium AmeEGHINo, 1887. Glires, Caviidee. 
Apuntes Prelim. sobre Mamif. Estinguidos de Monte Hermoso, 6-7, Apr., 1887; 
Act. Acad. Nac. Cien., Córdoba, VI, 241-242, 1889. - 
Phregatherium  LvpEKKER, Zool. Record for 1887, XXIV, Mamm., 37, 1888 
(misprint). 
Type: Phugatherium cataclisticum Ameghino, from Monte Hermoso, about 40 
miles east of Bahia Blanca, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. 
Extinct. ‘‘Establecf la especie sobre un fragmento de mandíbula inferior del 
lado izquierdo, con el alveolo del incisivo, el alveolo del p. 4, y las dos muelas 
siguientes, m. 4 y ; intactos."  (l. c., 1889.) : 
Phugatherium: vy», flight; 95oiov, wild beast. 
Phylloderma (subgenus) PETERS, 1865. Chiroptera, Phyllostomatide. 
Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss, Berlin, 1865, 512-513; Dosson, Cat. 
Chiroptera Brit. Mus., 482-483, 1878 (raised to generic rank). 
Type: Phylloderma stenops Peters, from Cayenne, French Guiana. 
Phylloderma: @tvAXAor, leat; Sépsa, skin. 
Phyllodia Gray, 1848. Chiroptera, Phyllostomatidee. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, No. cxxir, Oct., 1843, 50. 
Type: Phyllodia parnellii Gray, from Jamaica. 
Phyllodia: pvrAArA@Sys, like leaves, rich in leaves—in allusion to the nose-leaf. 
Phyllomys Lux», 1839. Glires, Octodontidee. 
Ann. Sci. Nat., Paris, 2* sér., XI, Zool., 225-226, 233, Apr., 1839; K. Danske 
Vidensk. Selsk., Kjóbenhavn, VIII, 243-244, pl. 21 figs. 12-13, 1841. 
