SIVATHERIUM——SMUTSIA. 635 
Sivatherium CaAvrLEY & FArcoxEn, 1835. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Giraffid:e. 
Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, IV, No. 48, p. 706, Dec., 1835; Asiatic Researches, 
XIX, Zool., pt. 1, 1-24, pl. x, 1836; Ann. Sci. Nat., Paris, 2° sér., VII, 61, Jan., 
1837. 
Type: Sivatherium giganteum Cautley & Falconer, from the Tertiary of the Siwalik 
Hills, India. 
Extinct. Based on ‘a remarkably perfect head.’ 
Sivatherium: Siva, a Hindu deity; 67ptov, wild beast. 
Smilocomptus Gervais, 1849. Cete, Squalodontidee. 
Comptes Rendus, Paris, XXVIII, 645 footnote, Jan.-June, 1849 (provisional). 
Smilocamptus GERVAIS, Mém. Acad. Sci. Montpellier, I, pt. rir, 218, 1849. 
Type: Smilocamptus burgueti Gervais, from the shell marls at Salles, Dépt. de la 
Gironde, France. 
Extinct. Based on a tooth. 
Smilocomptus: Guidn, knite; Kkaumtos, bent. 
Smilodectes Worrman, 1903. Glires, Proglires, Mixodectidee.* 
Am. Journ. Sci., 4th ser., XVI, 362-364, fig. 118, Nov., 1903. 
Type: Hyopsodus gracilis Marsh, from the Eocene of Grizzly Buttes, Bridger 
Basin, Wyoming. 
Extinct. Based on the anterior part of a left mandibular ramus containing the 
fourth premolar, first molar, and part of the third premolar. 
Smilodectes: GutAn, knife; 67Krns, biter. 
Smilodon Lunn, 1842. Ferze, Felidze. 
K. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Nat. & Math. Afhandl., Kjóbenhavn, IX, 190-193, 
198, Tab. xxxvi figs. 3-7, xxxvii, 1842. 
Type: Smilodon populator Lund, from the valley of the Rio das Velhas, Minas 
Geraés, Brazil. 
Extinct. 
Smilodon: 6uidn, knife; 65@v=d6ovs, tooth—in allusion to the huge, saber- 
like upper canines. 
Sminthopsis Tuomas, 1887. Marsupialia, Dasyuridee. 
Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat., Genova, 2d ser., IV, 503, Apr. 9, 1887; Cat. Marsup. 
& Monotrem. Brit. Mus., 298-307, 1888. 
New name for Podabrus Gould, 1845, which is preoccupied by Podabrus Fischer 
von Waldheim, 1821, a genus of Coleoptera. 
Sminthopsis: Guívüos, mouse; Ove, appearance—in allusion to its small size. 
Sminthus (Naruausius MS.) Norpmann, 1839. Glires, Dipodid:e. 
NorpMann, in Demidoffs Voy. Russie Mérid., III, livr. 1, cah. 1, pp. 49-51. 
Atlas, tab. 4 fig. 2, 1839; KEvsERLING & Buasius, Wirbelthiere Europa’s, pp. 
x, 13, 38, 1840; Wiegmann's Archiv Naturgesch., 1840, I, 330; NoRDMANN, 
Écho du Monde Savant, Paris, VIII, 195, Apr. 3, 1841. : 
Type: Sminthus loriger (* Nathusius’) Nordmann, from the vicinity of Odessa, 
Russia (— Mus subtilis Pallas, from Siberia). 
Name antedated by Sicista Gray, 1827. 
Sminthus: Guiv6ocs, mouse. 
Smutsia Gray, 1865. Effodientia, Manidee. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865, 369-370; Cat. Carn., Pachyderm., & Edentate 
Mamm. Brit. Mus., 374—375, 1869. 
Type: Manis temminckii Smuts, from Sennar, East Africa. 
Smutsia: In honor of Johannes Smuts, a Dutch naturalist, who visited Cape 
Colony in the early part of the nineteenth century; author of ‘ Enumeratio 
Mammalium Capensium,’ 1832. 

* Wortman uses the family name Microsyopsid:e for this group and maintains that 
it belongs to the Primates (see p. 851). 
