SPEORIFERA——SPERMOSCIURUS. 639 
Speorifera Gray, 1866. Chiroptera, Rhinolophide. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1866, 82 
Type: Speorifera vulgaris (= Rhinolophus vulgaris Horstield), from Java. 
Speorifera: Oméos, cave; £pc, to bear—trom the large transverse ‘pore’ in the 
forehead of the male. 
Speothos Lunn, 1839. Fer:z, Canide. 
Ann. Sci. Nat, Paris, 2° sér., XI; Zool, 223-224, 232, Apr., 1839; Echo du 
Monde Savane Paris, 6° anu., No. 430, p. 245, Apr. 17. 1839; WAGNER, in 
Wiegmann's Archiv Naturgesch., 1843, I, 349, 354-355. 
Type: Speothos pacivorus Lund, from the bone caves between the Rio das Velhas 
and Rio Paraopeba, Minas Geraés, Brazil (alt. 2,000 ft. ). 
Extinct. 
Speothos: Oméos, cave; 0c, a kind of wolf—cave wolf, in allusion to the occur- 
rence of its remains in bone caves. 
Spermatophilus (see Spermophilus). Glires, Sciuridze. 
Spermolegus Davin? 1875. Glires, Sciuridee. 
Journ. 3° Voy. dans P Empire Chinois, I, 52; II, 329, 1875; MórLENDonrr, Vert. 
Prov. Chihli, 16-17, 1877. 
Type: Spermophilus mongolicus Milne-Ed wards, from the vicinity of Pekin, China. 
Spermolegus: Gz£pua, seed; Aév c, to gather, pick up—i. e., a seed gatherer. 
(Compare Spermophilus. ) 
Spermophila, Spermophilis, Spermophillus (see Spermophilus). 
Spermophilopsis Buasius, 1884. Glires, Sciuridee. 
p 57ten Versamml. Deutsch. Naturforsch. und Aerzte in Magdeburg (Sept. 
8-23), 1884, No. 5, pp. 324-325 (provisional name); W. L. Scuarer, Zool. 
f for 1884, X XI, Mamm., pp. 4, 43, 1885; TnRovuzssaART, Cat. Mamm., new 
ed., fasc. 1, 441, 1897. 
Type: Spermophilus leptodactylus (Lichtenstein), from Turkestan. 
Spermophilopsis: Spermophilus; Owis, appearance. 
Spermophilus F. Cuvisr, 1825. Glires, Sciuridee. 
[‘Spermophile’ Cuvier, Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, IX, 293-305, pl. 15, 1822. 
Dents Mammifeéres, 160-161, pl. Ly, 255, 1825; Griffith’s Cuvier, Animal King- 
dom, V, 246, 1827. 
Sper AES RicHARDSON, in Parry’s 2d Voyage, App., 313, 1825. 
Spermophillus Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat., LIX, 473, 1829. 
Sphermophilus BungNETT, Quart. don Sci., Lit. & Art, XXVIII, for Oct-.—Dec., 
1829, 350, 1830. 
Spermatophilus W AGLER, Nat. Syst. Amphibien, 22, 1830; FrrziNGER, Dilder-Atlas 
Wiss.-Pop. Naturgesch. Süugethiere, figs. 104—105, 1860. 
Spermophilis Ricuarpson, Zool. Voy. H. M. 8. ‘Blossom,’ Mamm., 12, 1839 
(misprint). 
Type: Mus citellus Linnzeus, from Europe. 
Name antedated by Citellus Oken, 1816. 
Spermophilus: Gz£pua, seed; eios. loving—in allusion to the animal's principal 
food. 
Spermosciurus (subgenus) Lesson, 1836. Glires, Sciurid:e. 
Hist. Nat. Mamm. et Oiseaux découy. depuis 1788 (Compl. CEuvres Buffon), 
V, 398-403, 1836 (only in plural, *Spermosciuri? ); Nouv. Tableau Régne Animal, 
Mamm., 110-111, 1842. 
Species, 15: Sciurus rutilus Riippell (type), from eastern Abyssinia; 5. setosus For- 
ster, from the Cape of Good Hope; S. namaquensis Eg from Cape 
Colony; S. erythropus Geotftroy, from Senegal; S. pyrropus F. Cuvier, from Sierra 
Leone; S. brachyotus Hemprich & du from Abyssinia; S. ocularis Smith, 
from Plettensbergs Bay, Cape Colony; S. abessinicus Gmelin, from Abyssinia; 
