578 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Protapirus Finnor, 1877. Ungulata, Perissodactyla, Tapiridze. 
Ann. Sci. Géol., Paris, VIII, 1877, art. 1, pp. 131-135, pl. 7 figs. 236—240, 1877. : 
Type: Tupirus priscus Filhol, from the Phosphorites of Quercy, near Caylux, 
France. 
Extinet. Based on *une demi-máchoire inférieure et une portion de máchoire 
supérieure.’ 
Protapirus: po, betore; + Tapirus. 
Protauchenia Branco, 1883. - Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Camelidee. 
Palaeont. Abhandl., Berlin, I, Heft 2, pp. 110-126, Taf. xm—xvir [xvir-xxrr], 
1883; BurmerstER, Anal. Mus. Buenos Aires, III, entr. 18, p. 477, 1891. 
Type: Protauchenia reissi Branco, from Punin, near Riobamba, Ecuador. 
Extinct. 
Protauchenia: zp&roz, first; +-Auchenia. 
"Protechidna HaxrkckEr, 1895. Monotremata, Tachyglossidee. 
Syst. Phylogenie Wirbelth., III, 466, 1895. 
Hypothetical genus, including the edentate Monotremes from the chalk (?) 
(* Kreide?) formation. 
Protechidna: mp@ros, first; + Echidna. 
Protechimys ScuLossEn, 1884. Glires, Theridomyid:e, 
Die Nager Europ. Tertiirs, in Paleontographica XXXI, Taf. rv figs. 28-30, v 
figs. 1-7, 9-15, 17-23, 25-29, 1884 (sep. pp. 45-50). 
Protechinomys LypEKKER, Cat. Foss. Mamm. Brit. Mus., pt. 1, 240-241, 1885 
(emendation ). 
Species: Protechimys gracilis Schlosser, and P. major Schlosser, from the Phospho- 
rites of Mouillac, Dépt. Tarn-et-Garonne, France; also two unnamed species, 
the locality of which is not stated. 
Extinet. 
Protechimys: mp@tvos, first; + Echimys. 
Protechynus Firnor, 1891. Glires, ? 
Ass. Francaise Avancement Sci., Compte Rendu, 20° sess., Marseille, pt. 1, 242, 
1891 (nomen nudum). : 
Type from Milloque, Lot-et-Garonne, France. 
Extinct. 
Protechynus ( Protechinus): mp@vos, first; £yivoc, hedgehog. 
Proteles I. Grorrroy, 1824. Ferze, Protelidz. 
Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, XI, 355-371, pl. 20, 1824; W. L. ScLATER, Mamm. 
8. Africa, I, 79-83, figs. 20, 21, 1900. 
Type: Proteles lalandii Geoffroy ( — Viverra cristata Sparrman), from the Cape of 
Good Hope, South Africa. 
Proteles: 206, before, in front; reA»5e:s, perfect—‘ complete in front,’ in allusion 
to the presence of five toes on the fore feet, in contrast with four on the hind 
feet. 
Protelotherium Osporn, 1895. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Suidee. 
Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., N. Y., VII, 105, May 20, 1895. 
Name provisionally proposed for a complete artiodactyl hind limb (supposed to 
belong to Elotherium "intense Osborn), from the Eocene of the Uinta Basin, 
northeastern Utah. ‘‘If this limb is related to the above skull [E. wintense] 
it would distinguish it as a new generic type which might be named Protelothe- 
rium, characterized by four digits in the pes." (OsBorN.) 
Extinct. Based on specimen No. 1820 of the Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., a complete 
hind limb, ‘including a femur, tibia, astragalus and caleaneum, cuboid and a 
metatarsal.’ 
Protelotherium: mp@cvos, first; 4- Elotheriwm. 
