SACCOLAIMUS—SADYPUS. 615 
Saccolaimus (Kunr M8.) Gray, 1866. Chiroptera, Noctilionidee. 
[‘Kunu,’ Lesson, Nouv. Tableau Régne Animal, Mamm., 19, 1842; ‘ Kunt,’ 
Gray, List. Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. xix, 1843—synonym of Taphozous— 
nomen nudum. ] 
Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d ser., XVII, No. 98, p. 92, Feb., 1866; FrrziNGER, 
Sitzungsber. Math.-Nat. Cl. K. Akad. Wiss., Wien, LXI, Abth. r, 483-493, 
Apr., 1870. 
Type (species not mentioned by Gray), but described as follows: ‘‘ Forehead with 
a deep concavity; chin with a large transverse fold." 
Saccolaimus of Fitzinger includes 5 species: Taphozous peli Temminck, from West 
Africa; T. crassus Blyth (— T. saccolaimus Temminck, type), from southern 
Asia and the Malay Archipelago; T. brevicaudus Blyth, T. fulvidus Blyth, and 
T. cantori Blyth, from India. 
Saccolaimus: 6&kkos, sac; Aas, throat, gullet 
developed gular sacs of the type species. 

in allusion to the well- 
Saccomys F. Cuvier, 1823. Glires, Heteromyidee. 
[‘Saccomys anthophile’ F. Cuvreg, Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, X, 419-428,* 
pl. 26, 1823.] 
Dents Mamm., 186-187, 256, pl. Lxxtv, 1823. 
Sacomys Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat., LIX, 488, 1829. 
Type: Saccomijs anthophilus Cuvier, from North America. 
Saccomys: 6dkKos, sae; sL0s, mouse—from the external cheek pouches. 
Saccophorus Kunr, 1820. Glires, Geomyidze. 
Beitr. Zool. und vergl. Anat., 65-66, 1820; Merriam, N. Am. Fauna, No. 8, pp. 
109, 120, Jan. 31, 1895 (in synonymy ). 
Type: Mus bursarius Shaw, from the upper Mississippi Valley. (See Geomys 
Rafinesque, 1817.) 
Saccophorus: 6&kkos, sac; opós, bearing—in allusion to the external cheek 
pouches. 
Saccopteryx IrriGER, 1811. Chiroptera, Noctilionidee. 
Prodromus Syst. Mamm. et Avium, 121-122, 1811. 
Type: Vespertilio lepturus Schreber, from Surinam. 
Saccopteryx: 6&ikos, sae; zrépv&, wing—‘sac-winged bat,’ from the peculiar 
glandular wing sac of the male, which opens along the forearm on the outer side 
of the antebrachial membrane. 
Saccostomus Prrrns, 1846. Glires, Murid:e, Murinze. 
Bericht und Verhandl. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., Berlin, Aug., 1846, 258; Natur- 
wiss. Reise nach Mossambique, Siiugeth., 166-169, Taf. xxxiv fig. 3, Xxxv figs. 
12,18, xxxvi fig. 4, 1852. 
Type: Saccostomus campestris Peters (=. lapidarius Peters, 1852), from Tette, 
Mozambique, southeastern Africa (S. lat. 16°-17°). 
Name preoccupied by Saccostoma Fitzinger, 1843, a genus of Reptilia. Replaced 
by Eosaccomys Palmer, 1905. 
Saccostomus: OAKKOS, sac; OTOL, mouth—from the large internal cheek pouches 
which open on either side of the mouth, just beside the tongue. 
Sacomys (see Saccomys). Glires, Heteromyide. 
Sacrophilus (see Sarcophilus). Marsupialia, Dasyurid:e. 
Sadypus Amecuino, 1902. Edentata, Dasypodid:e. 
Bol. Acad. Nae. Cien. Córdoba, XVII, 64-65, May, 1902 (sep. pp. 62-63). 

*This article refers to ‘Des Dents des Mammiféres,’ p. 186, as though the latter 
book were already published. 
