SUNCUS—SYCIUM. 653 
Suncus— Continued. 
Junkus A. MruNE-EpwaARps, Recherches Mamm., I, 259, 1868-74; Ginx, Bull. 
U. S. Geol. & Geog. Surv. Terr., I, 2d ser., No. 1, p. 111, 1875. 
Type: Suncus sacer Ehrenberg ( —Sorex crassicaudis Hemprich & Ehrenberg MS., 
Lichtenstein), from Suez, Egypt. 
Suncus: From the Arabic name, ‘far sunki.’ 
Suricata DrsmAresr, 1804. Fer, Viverride. 
Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., XXIV, Tabl. Méth. Mamm., 15, 1804; Mammalogie, I, 
36, 214, 1820; Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., pp. xx, 53, 1843; Proc. 
Zool. Soc. London, 1864, 578-579. | 
Type: Suricata capensis Desmarest (= Viverra. tetradactyla Linnzeus), from the 
Cape of Good Hope. 
Suricata: Suricat, suricate, or surikate, from a native South African name. 
Suricoria (see Saricovia). Fer», Mustelide. 
Sus LixN.Evs, 1758. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Suidee. 
Systema Naturee, 10th ed., I, 49-50, 1758; 12th ed., I, 102-104, 1766; Brisson, Reg- 
num Animale in Classes IX distrib., 2d ed., 12, 73-78, 1762; Hav, Cat. Foss. 
Vert. N. Am., Bull. 179, U. S. Geol. Surv., 661, 1902 (type fixed). 
Species, 4: Sus scrofa Linneeus (type), from southern Europe; S. porcus Linnzeus, 
from Africa; S. tajacu Linneeus, from tropical America; and S. babyrussa Lin- 
n:eus, from Celebes. 
Sus: Lat., pig; from 6s, hog, pig. 
Susu Lesson, 1828. Cete, Platanistid:e. 
Hist. Nat. Mamm. et Oiseaux découy. depuis 1788 (Compl. CEuvres Buffon), 
I, 212-218, pl. 3, fig. 3, 1828. . 
Soosoo H. Smrru, Jardine's Nat. Library, Mamm., I, 266, 1842. 
Type: Delphinus gangeticus Lebeck (Susu platanista Lesson on plate), from the 
River Ganges, India. 
Susu: Sousow or susu (Bengali s/sik or sishák), the Hindu name of the Gangetic 
dolphin. 
Swinhoia (subgenus of Bal«noptera) Gray, 1866. Cete, Baleenidie. 
Cat. Seals & Whales Brit. Mus., 382-386, figs. 88-93 in text, 1866; Synopsis Whales 
& Dolphins Brit. Mus., 5, 1868 (raised to generic rank); Suppl. Cat. Seals & 
Whales Brit. Mus., 57, 1871. 
Type: Balznoptera swinhoei Gray, from the coast of Formosa. 
Swinhoia: In honor of Robert Swinhoe, 1836-77, British consul at Amoy, 
Shanghai, Ningpo, Chefoo, and Formosa; author of numerous papers on the 
mammals and birds of China and neighboring regions. 
Syarctus Grocer, 1841. Fere, Mustelidee. 
Hand- u. Hilisbuch Naturgesch., I, pp. xxviii, 55, 1841; Tuomas, Ann. & Mag. 
Nat. Hist., 6th ser., X V, 190, Feb. 1, 1895. 
Synarchus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865, 137 (in synonymy); Cat. 
Carn., Pachyderm., & Edentate Mamm. Brit. Mus., 122, 1869 (in synonymy). 
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New name for Arctonyx F. Cuvier, 1825. Type: Arctonyx collaris F. Cuvier, from 
the mountains of northeast India. 
Syarctus: 60s, Gvós, hog; &pkros, bear—irom the long, truncated, mobile snout. 
Sycium Corr, 1899. Glires, Murid:e, Microtinz. 
Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d ser., XI, pt. 2, pp. 201, 203-204, 1 text fig., 1899. 
Type: Sycium cloacinum Cope, from the Pleistocene of the Port Kennedy bone 
cave, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. 
Name preoccupied by Sycia Léger, 1892, a genus of Protozoa. 
Extinct. Based on molar teeth of 2 individuals. 
Sycium: 6vv, together; Kiwy, pillar, column--probably in allusion to the tooth 
character of **a common pulp cavity with lateral bony walls which close the 
lateral grooves, but do not close the pulp cavity below." 
