VARECIA—VESPERUGO. 705 
Varecia Gray, 1863. Primates, Lemuride. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1863, 135-136, 1 fig. in text; Cat. Monkeys, Lemurs, & 
Fruit-eating Bats Brit. Mus., 70-72, fig. 1, 1870. 
Species, 4: Lemur varius Geoffroy, L. niger Geoffroy, L. ruber Geoffroy, and L. 
leucomystax Bartlett, from Madagascar. 
Varecia: [Formed in analogy with Pithecia(?)] from vari or varicossi, a native 
name of this lemur in Madagascar, adopted by Buffon (Hist. Nat., XIII, 174, 
1765). 
Verrusus Heupr, 1894. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Suide. 
Mém. Hist. Nat. Empire Chinois, II, pt. 4, pp. 213 footnote; 222, figs. in pls. xx, 
XX, XXVII, XXIX, XXIX ^ figs. 1-4, 1894. 
Apparently based on ‘‘les sangliers à quatre verrues [qui] forment le groupe le 
plus nombreux parmi les Suidés insulaires." Species: Sus inconstans Heude, 
from  ————; S. megalodontus Heude, from ————; & effrenus Heude, from 
Lagunade Bay, Luzon; S. arietinus Heude, from Manila, P. I. 
Verrusus: French verrue, wart; -+-Sus—i. e., a ‘wart hog.’ 
Vesperides (subgenus of Vespertilio) Cours, 1875. Chiroptera, Vespertilionide. 
Rept. Expl. West 100th Merid., V, Mamm., 83, 95, 1875. 
Type: Vespertilio noctivagans Le Conte, from the eastern United States, exact 
locality not stated. 
Name antedated by Lasionycteris Peters, 1865, which is based on the same species. 
Vesperides: Lat. vesper, evening; &280c, form. 
Vesperimus (subgenus of Hesperomys) Cours, 1874. — Glires, Muridee, Cricetine. 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1874, 178; ALLEN, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., III, 
No. 2, p. 224, May 7, 1891 (raised to generic rank). 
Vesperomys ArsroN, Biologia Cent.-Am., Mamm., 142, 1880 (subgenus); ZrTTEL, 
Handb. Paleeont., IV, Mamm., 2te Lief., 535, 1893 (genus). 
Type: Hesperomys leucopus (= Musculus leucopus Rafinesque), from the ‘Western 
States,’ probably in the Ohio Valley. 
Vesperimus: Lat., vesper, evening—i. e., western; mus, mouse—a Latin equivalent 
of Hesperomys. 
Vespertiliavus ScHLosskER, 1887. Chiroptera, Vespertilionide. 
Die Affen, Lemuren, Chiropteren, u. s. w., Europiiischen Tertiürs, Theil 1, in 
Beitr. Palaeont. Oesterreich-Ungarns, VI, 70-75, Taf. 1 figs. 37, 40, 44, 45, 47, 
48, 50-60, 1887. 
Species: Vespertilio bourguignati Filhol, from the Phosphorites of Quercy, France. 
Four unnamed species of Vespertiliavus and Palaeonycteris robustus Pomel, from 
the lower Miocene of Langy and St.-Gérand-le-Puy, France. 
Extinct. 
Vespertiliavus: Vespertilio; Lat. «vus, grandfather—i. e., an ancestral bat. 
Vespertilio LiNN;EUs, 1758. Chiroptera, Vespertilionid:e. 
Systema Nature, 10th ed., I, 31-32, 1758; 12th ed., I, 46-47, 1766; Brisson, 
Regnum Animale in Classes IX distrib., 2d ed., 13, 158-161, 1762; MrirrEn, N. 
Am. Fauna, No. 13, pp. 18-19, 95-103, figs. 24-26, Oct. 16, 1897 (type fixed). 
Species, 7: Vespertilio vampyrus Linneeus, from Asia; V. spectrum Linn:eus, from 
South America; V. perspicillatus Linnzeus, from Jamaica; V. spasma Linnzeus, 
from Asia; V. /eporinus Linneeus, from tropical America; V. auritus Linnzeus, 
and V. murinus Linnzeus (type), from Europe. 
Vespertilio: Lat., bat, so-called from its flying about in the evening—probably 
from vespertinus, of the evening. (Century Diet. ) 
Vesperugo KxrvsEnLING & Drasivs, 1839. Chiroptera, Vespertilionidee. 
Wiegmann’s Archiy Naturgesch., I, 312-318, 1839; Wirbelthiere Europa’s, pp. 
xiv, 45-52, 1840. 
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