596 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Pteronotus Gray, 1838. Chiroptera, Phyllostomatid:e. 
Jardine's Mag. Zool. & Bot., IT, 500, 1838. 
Type: Pteronotus davyi Gray, from Trinidad. 
Name preoccupied by Pteronotus Rafinesque, 1815, a genus of Pteropodide. Re- 
placed by Dermonotus Gill, 1901. 
Pteronotus: zrepóv, wing; v@tos back—the wing membrane is connected with 
the middle line of the back by a narrow ligament instead of arising from the 
sides of the body as in closely related species. 
Pteronura Gray, 1837. Fer:e, Mustelid:e. 
Charlesworth's Mag. Nat. Hist, I, 580, 1837. 
Pterura WiEGMANN, Archiv Naturgesch., 1838, Bd. II, 392. 
Type: Pleronura sambachii Gray, from Demerara, British Guiana. 
Pteronura: mrepov, wing; Óvp«, tail—in allusion to the ‘fin-like dilatation on 
ach side of the hinder half? of the tail. 
Pteropus Brisson, 1762. Chiroptera, Pteropodidee. 
Regnum Animale in Classes IX distrib., 2d ed., 13, 153-155, 1762; ERx LEBEN, Sys- 
tema Regni Animalis, 130-141, 1777; G. Cuvier, Tableau Élém. Hist. Nat. 
Anim., 104, 1798 (‘les Rousettes’); Lecons Anat. Comp., I, tabl. 1, 1800; 
DvwÉniL, Zool. Analytique, 10, 11, 1806; Merriam, Science, new series, I, No. 
14, p. 375, Apr. 5, 1895 (type fixed); Marscuig, Fledermiiuse Berliner Mus. 
Naturkunde, Lief. r, 12-19, 1899. 
Type: Pteropus pleropus Brisson (= Vespertilio vampyrus Linneeus, part, =P. celeno 
Herrmann, 1804), from Malaysia. 
Pteropus: mreporovs, wing-footed—in allusion to the wing membrane which 
arises from the side of the back and the back of the second toe. 
[Pterotherium G. Fiscugn, 1814. Reptilia. 
Zoognosia, [3d ed., I, 15, 1813, nomen nudum], III, 506-508, 1814; Mém. Soc. 
Imp. Nat. Moscou, V, 422, 1817. 
** Pterotherium Fischer, animal fossile ad volantia referendum. — Pterodactyle 
Cuvier." Considered a mammal by Fischer and placed between Petawristus 
and Galeopithecus. 
Extinct. 
Pterotherium: mtepov, wing: Gyptor, wild beast. ] 
Pterotix RarixEsQUE, 1815. Glires, Sciuridee. 
Analyse de la Nature, 58, 1815. 
Nomen nudum. 
Pterotix: mrepov, wing. 
Pterura (see Pteronura). Feri, Mustelidee. 
Pterycolobus RocuEBRUNE, 1886-87. Primates, Cercopithecidee. 
Faune Sénégambie, Suppl. Vertébrés, 1° fasc., 96, 125-129, pl. x, 1886-87. 
Pterygocolobus 'TRovEssART, Cat. Mamm., new ed., I, 15, 1897 (in synonymy). 
Type: Colobus vellerosus I. Geoffroy, from the west coast of Africa. 
Pterycolobus: mrépvé, zrépvy os, wing; + Colobus—in allusion to the character: 
* Pili temporum, geenarum, malarumque in alam latam flabellatam dehis- 
centes.’’ 
Pterygistes Kaup, 1829. Chiroptera, Vespertilionide. 
Zntw.-Gesch. und Nat. Syst. Europ. Thierwelt, I, 99, 100, 1829. 
Species: Vespertilio proterus Kuhl, and V. leisleri Kuhl, from Europe. 
Pterygistes: zrepvyitco, to flutter—in allusion to the animal’s manner of flight. 
Pterygocolobus (see Pterycolobus). Primates, Cercopithecide. 
Ptilocercus Gray, 1848. Insectivora, Tupaiidee. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, No. chxxx1, Aug. 1, 1848, 24, pl. rr. 
Type: Ptilocercus lowii Gray, from Sarawak, Borneo. 
Ptilocercus: zriAov, feather; KépKos, tail—‘pentailed tree shrew,’ from the 
terminal third of the tail, which has a bilateral fringe of long hairs. 
