588 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Psammomys-Continued. 
Type: Psammomys sp. ( —Spalacopus poeppigii Wagler, 1832 — Psammoryctes noc- 
tivagus Poeppig, 1835), from the northern coast of Chile. 
Name preoccupied by Psammomys Cretzschmar, 1828, a genus of Gerbilline; and 
by Psammomys Le Conte, 1830, a genus of Microtine. Replaced by Psammo- 
ryctes Poeppig, 1835, which is antedated by Spalacopus Wagler, 1832. 
Psammoryctes Parric, 1835. : Glires, Octodontid:e. 
Wiegmann's Archiv Naturgesch., I, Bd. 2, pp. 252-255, 397, 1835. 
Type: Psammoryctes noctivagus Poeppig (=Spalacopus poeppigii Wagler), from the 
northern coast of Chile. 
Name antedated by Spalacopus Wagler, 1832. 
Psammoryctes: Wcyujos, sand; ópokrs, digger. 
Psammoryctes STIRLING, 1889. Marsupialia, Notoryctide. 
[Nature, XX XVIII, 588-589, Oct. 18, 1888; Trans. Roy. Soc. South Australia, 
XI, 21-24, Apr., 1889—described but not named. ] 
Trans. Roy. Soc. South Australia, XII, 158, Dec. 1889 (name only). 
Type: Psammoryctes typhlops Stirling, from the Idracowra cattle station, Finke 
River, about 100 miles from Charlotte Waters, Alexandra Land, Australia. 
Name preoccupied by Psammoryctes Pceppig, 1835, a genus of Glires. Replaced 
by Notoryctes Stirling, 1891. 
Pselaphon Gray, 1870. Chiroptera, Pteropodidze. 
Cat. Monkeys, Lemurs & Fruit-eating Bats Brit. Mus., 110, 1870. 
Type: Pteropus ursinus Kittlitz (=P. pselaphon Lay), from the island of Bonin, 
south of Japan. 
Name preoccupied (?) by Pselaphus Herbst, 1792, a genus of Coleoptera. 
Pselaphon: dnLagaw, to grope about. 
[Psephophorus Meyer, 1847. Reptilia, Chelonia. 
Neues Jahrb. Mineralogie, 1847, 579. 
Type: Psephorus polygonus Meyer, ‘‘aus Tertiiir-Sand unter dem Leitha-Kalk zu 
Neudorf und der March in Ungarn," Austria. This genus was described by 
Meyer as an. Edentate, but was subsequently found to be a Chelonian. It is 
placed in the family Dermochelydidz by Lydekker (Cat. Foss. Rept. & Am- 
phib. Brit. Mus., pt. m1, 224, 1889). 
Extinct. 
Psephophorus: Wéqos, darkness; @opds, bearing. ] 
Pseudadiantus AMEGHINO, 1901. Ungulata, Litopterna, Adiauthide. 
Bol. Acad. Nac. Cien. Cordoba, X VI, 372-373, July, 1901 (sep. pp. 26-27). 
Species: Pseudadiantus secans Ameghino, and P. imperfectus Ameghino, from the 
"Cretaceous! of Patagonia. 
Extinct. 
Pseudadiantus: wevd7s, false; + Adiantus. 
Pseudelurus GERVAIS, 1848-52. Fer, Felidae. 
Zool. et Paléont. Francaises, 1° éd., I, 127, 1848-52; 2° éd., 232, 1859. 
Type: Felis quadridentata Blainville, from the Miocene of Sansan, near Auch, 
Dépt. du Gers, France. 
Extinct. 
Pseudlurus: wevdns, false; azAovpos, cat. 
Pseudalopex Burmeister, 1856. Fer, Canide. 
Erlàut. Fauna Brasiliens, 24, 44-54, Taf. xxv, xxvi fig. 3, xxvn figs. 3,4, xxrx 
figs. 3,4, 1856; Reise durch die La Plata-Staaten, II, 404, 1861. 
Species, 3: Canis azarae Rengger, C. griseus Gray, and C. magellanicus Gray, from 
South America. (Compare Lycalopex Burmeister, 1854.) 
Pseudalopex: wevdns, false; &A@77é, fox. 
