569 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Presbytis—Continued. 
*' Both the genera Semnopithecus and Presbytis were proposed in the same year, 
1821, the former in the French form Semnopithéque, for 5. entellus and S. 
melalophos (Hist. Nat. des Mammiféres). . . . The name Semnopithecus has 
been more widely used than JPresbytis."  (BrANrFoRD, Fauna Brit. India, 
Mamm., 25 1888.)  Presbytis, however, has stronger claims for adoption on 
grounds of priority, as it clearly antedates Semnopithecus. 
Presbytis: mpe6B0ris, an old woman (zpeofUrns, an old man). The common 
name ‘priest monkey,’ sometimes used, seems to indicate that the generic 
name might have been derived from ze6/6repos, an elder, priest. 
Presbytis (subg. of Semnopithecus) REICHENBACH, 1862. Primates, Cercopithecide. 
Vollstind. Naturgesch. Affen, 99-101, 1862. 
Type: Cercopithecus cephalopterus Zimmermann, from Ceylon. 
Name preoccupied by Presbytis Eschscholtz, 1821, based on P. mitrata, from, 
Sumatra, Replaced by Presbypithecus Trouessart, 1879. 
Priacodon Marsu, 1887. Marsupialia, Triconodontide. 
Am. Journ. Sci. & Arts, 3d ser., XXXIII, 341, 343, pl. x fig. 9, Apr., 1887. 
Type: Tinodon ferox Marsh, from the Jurassic ( Atlantosaurus beds) of Wyoming. 
Extinct. Based on ‘‘a right lower jaw, with most of the teeth in position." 
Priacodon: zpícv, saw; dk», point; dd@rv = d6ovs, tooth. 
Primoevus (subgenus of Canis) Hopason, 1842. Ferz, Canidee. 
Hopcsos, in Lesson's Nouv. Tableau Régne Animal, Mamm., 39, 1842. 
Primxvus Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. xx, 1843 (synonym of Cuon). 
Type: Primoevus buansu Lesson ( — Canis primevus Hodgson), from India. 
Name antedated by Cuon Hodgson, 1838. 
Primoevus: Lat. primaevus, young, youthful. 
Priodontes F. Cvvien, 1827. Edentata, Dasypodide. 
[‘Priodonte’ F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mamm., IV, livr. xxvin, pl. (‘Encoubert’ ), 
text, p. 2, Dec., 1822; Dents Mammiféres, 198-199, 257, pl. Lxxxr, 1825.] 
CvvrEn, in Lesson's Man. Mammalogie, 309, 1827; Dict. Sci. Nat., LII, 322-323, 
1828; ibid., LIX, 500, 1829. 
Priodon McMvnrRIE, Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, I, 164, 1831; Aaassiz, Nomen- 
clator Zool., Mamm., 27, 1842. 
Prionodon Gray, List. Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. xxvii, 1843. 
Priodonta Gray, ibid., 190. 
Prionodos Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865, 374-375. 
Type: Priodontes giganteus ( — Dasypus gigas Cuvier), from northern Paraguay. 
Priodontes: zoícv, saw; 660s, Ó0óvrosc, tooth. 
Prionailurus (subgenus of Felis) SEvERTZow, 1858. Fer, Felide. 
Revue et Mag. de Zool., Paris, 2* sér., X, 387, 390, Sept., 1858. 
Type: Felis pardochrous Hodgson, from the Himalayas of India. 
Prionailurus: zpicv, saw; aiAovpos, cat. 
Prionodes JourpAn, 1852. Fere, Felidee. 
** Revue Soc. Savantes 1852," (fide FrnHoL); Frzgor, Notes sur Quelques Mamm. 
Foss., Archiv. Mus. Hist. Nat., Lyon, III, [56], 59, pl. 1v, fig. 2, 1881 (under 
Aelurogale intermedia). 
Type (species not mentioned), from Grive St. Alban, Dept. Isére, France. 
Extinct. Based on a single upper canine. 
Prionodes: mpiwv, saw; e100c, form. 
Prionodon (ray (see Priodontes). Edentata, Dasypodidee. 
Prionodon HonsriELD (see Prionodontide). Fere, Viverridz, 
