642 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Sphyrocephalus—Continued. 
Type: Sphyrocephalus labrosus Murray, from Old Calabar River, Wess Africa. 
Name preoccupied by Sphyrocephala Westwood, 1848, a genus of Diptera; and 
by Sphyrocephalus Schmarda, 1859, a genus of Vermes. May be replaced by 
Zygenocephalus, the name used on the plate. 
Sphyrocephalus: 6~0pa, hammer; «eo«A», head. ‘‘Head very large, massive, 
with some resemblance to a hammer, whence the name hammer- 
headed." (Murray. ) 
Spigurus, Spiggurus (see Sphiggurus). Glires, Erethizontidee. 
Spilocuscus (subgenus of Cuscus) Gray, 1861. Marsupialia, Phalangeride. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1861, 316-318; THomas, Cat. Marsup. & Monotrem. 
3rit. Mus., 193, 1888 (in synonymy, type fixed). 
Species: Cuscus chrysorrhous (=Phalangista,chrysorrhous Temminck), from the 
Moluceas; and C. maculatus (=Phalangista maculata Geoffroy, type), from 
New Guinea? 
Spilocuscus: OmtAos, spot; -|- Cuscus—'spotted cuscus,’ from the variegated pelage. 
Spilogale Gray, 1865. Fer, Mustelidee. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865, 150; Merriam, N. Am. Fauna, No. 4, pp. 1-15, 
pl. 1, 2 figs. in text, Oct. 8, 1890. 
Type: Mephitis interrupta Rafinesque, from the Mississippi Valley, probably from 
Kansas. 
Spilogale: GzíXos, spot; y «A5, weasel—from the spotted character of the mark- 
ings, in contrast with the stripes of Mephitis. 
Spinigera (subgenus of Antilope) Lesson, 1842. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Bovidze. 
Nouv. Tableau Régne Animal, Mamm., 178, 1842; Sctarrer & THomas, Book of 
Antelopes, II, pt. v, 59,62, Jan., 1896 (in synonymy). 
Type: Antilope spinigera Temminck (= Capra pygmea Linneeus), from the west 
coast of Africa, from Liberia to Ashantee. 
Name antedated by Neotragus H. Smith, 1827. 
Spinigera: Lat., thorn-bearing, thorny—in allusion to the diminutive horns, 
which are sharply pointed and less than an inch in length. 
Spyrocephalus (see Sphyrocephalus ). Chiroptera, Pteropodidee. 
Squalodon GrareLoup, 1840. Cete, Squalodontide. 
Actes Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, XI, for 1839, No. 56, p. 346, 1840; **Act. Acad. R. Sci. 
Bordeaux, 1840, 208" (fide FLowEn & LypeEKKER, Mamm., Living & Extinct, 
257, 1891); MEvzn, Jahrb. Mineralogie, 1840, 587-588; GRATELOUP, ibid., 1841, 
567-568, 830-832. 
Type: Squalodon grateloupii Meyer, 1843, from Léognan, near Bordeaux, France. 
Originally described as a reptile but later shown to be a mammal (Jahrb. 
Mineralogie, 1840, 587-588; 1841, 567-568). 
Extinct. Based on part of the left upper jaw. 
Squalodon: Squalus, a genus of sharks; 65@v=66ovs, tooth—from the resem- 
blance of the teeth to those of a shark. 
Stachycolobus locuksBRUNE, 1886-87. Primates, Cercopithecidee. 
Faune Sénégambie, Suppl. Vert., 1° fasc., 96, 114-116, pl. vir, 1886-87. 
Type: Colobus satanas Waterhouse, from Fernando Po, west coast of Africa. 
Stachycolobus: Gr&yvs, 6r&xvos, ear of corn, spike; + Colobus—in allusion to the 
hairofthehead. **Pili frontis et superciliorum setosi, recti; verticis, gzgenarum 
malarumque rigidi, flabellati.”’ 
Stagodon Mansu, 1889. Marsupialia, Stagodontide. 
Am. Journ. Sci. & Arts, 3d ser., XXXVIII, 178, pl. vix figs. 17-25, Aug., 1889. 
Species: Stagodon nitor Marsh (type), and S. twmidus Marsh, from the Cretaceous 
(Laramie) of Wyoming. 
