638 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Spaniotherium Fiunor, 1882. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Anoplotheriidze? 
Mém. Mamm. Foss. Phosphorites du Quercy, in Ann. Soc. Sci. Phys. Nat., Tou- 
louse, 113-114, 1882. 
Spanotherium Zool. Record for 1883, XX, Index New Gen., 11, 1884 (misprint). 
Type: Spaniotherium speciosum Filhol, from the Phosphorites of Quercy, France. 
Extinct. Based on the three upper molars. 
Spaniotherium: Gz&vioc, rare; Inpiov, wild beast. 
Sparassocynus MrnckEnaT, 1899. Marsupialia, Borhyzenidee? 
Anal. Soc. Cien. Árgentina, XLVII, entr. 2, pp. 58-60, Feb., 1899. 
Type: Sparassocynus bahiai Mercerat, from Monte Hermoso, about 40 miles east 
of Bahia Blanca, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. 
Extinct. Based on portions of the cranium. 
Sparassocynus: óz:«p&66o, to tear, to mangle; x&v, xvrós, dog. 
Spasma (subgenus of Megaderma) Gray, 1866. Chiroptera, Megadermatidze. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1866, 83. 
Type: Megaderina spasma (= Vespertilio spasma Linnszus), from Ternate, Malay 
Archipelago. 
Spasma: Oradea, a piece torn off—in allusion to the deeply notched tragus, 
which has the appearance of having had a piece cut out of the upper margin. 
Spectrellum Gervais, 1855. Chiroptera, Natalid:e. 
Expd. du Comte de Castelnau l'Amérique du Sud, Zool, Mamm., 51, 1855; 
Comptes Rendus, Paris, XLII, 550, 1856. 
Type: Spectrellum macrourum Gervais, from Bahia, Brazil. 
Spectrellum: Dim. of Spectrum. 
Spectrum LacrpEpr, 1799. Chiroptera, Pteropodidee. 
Tabl. Méth., 15, 1799; ‘‘ Buffon’s Hist. Nat., Quad., Didot ed., XIV, 188, 1799;" 
Nouv. Tableau Méth. Mamm., in Mém. l'Institut, Paris, III, 500, 1801; Gray, 
Cat. Monkeys, Lemurs & Fruit-eating Bats Brit. Mus., 100-102, 1870; MATscHrE, 
Fledermáuse Berliner Mus. Naturkunde, Lief. 1, Megachiroptera, 19-30, 1899 
(type given as Pteropus vulgaris Geoffroy, 1810). 
Type: Spectrum vampirus (= Vespertilio vampyrus Linneeus), from Asia. 
Name preoccupied by Spectrum Scopoli, 1777, a genus of Lepidoptera. 
Spectrum: Lat., apparition, specter. 
Speleus* Brookes, 1828. Fere, Ursidee, 
“Cat. Anat. & Zool. Museum of Joshua Brookes, London, 31, 1828 (previous to 
July 14).” 
Type: Spelxus antiquorum Brookes (= Ursus spelzwus auct.?), from Europe. 
Extinet. 
Spelxus: 6zAa10v, cave—i. e., a cave bear. 
Spelearctos E. Grorrroy, 1833. Ferz, Ursidee. 
Revue Encyclopédique, LIX, 81 footnote, July-Sept.,f 1833; *'Inst., IV, 1836;" 
Comptes Rendus, Paris, II, 187, 1856. 
Spelearctus GEOFFROY, Etudes Progressives d'un Naturaliste, 92, 93 footnote, 1835. 
Name provisionally proposed for the extinct bears. ‘‘Que l'on en vienne à faire 
ressortir, à l'égard des ¢tres à l'état fossile, le degré différentiel de leurs fronts 
aussi fortement relevés et bombés, en les élevant à la condition d'une famille 
générique sous le nom de Spelearctos; . . . Les Spelearctos propres à la zoologie 
antédiluvienne, et les Ursus à lactuelle, . . . seraient apercus ceux-là plus 
grands et plus robustes . . . et ceux-ci au contraire plus rabougris et de taille 
restreinte." (GEOFFROY. ) 
Spelearctos: OmnAaiov, cave; «proc, bear—a cave bear. 
*This name is open to question, as it was published in a sale catalogue. 
[Probably published a month or two later; see ‘Postscriptuim,’ dated Oct. 29, 
1833 (p. 95). 
