(06 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Vesperugo—Continued. 
Species, 13, from Europe (the first 6 belong to the subgenus Vesperus, the others 
to the subgenus Vesperugo): Vespertilio serotinus Schreber, V. discolor Natterer, 
V. nilssonii Keyserling & Blasius, V. savii Bonaparte, V. /eucippe Bonaparte, V. 
aristippe Bonaparte, V. noctula Schreber, V. leisleri Kuhl, V. kuAlii Natterer, 
V. albolimbatus Küster, V. nathusii Keyserling & Blasius, V. pipistrellus 
Schreber, and J”. alcythoe Bonaparte. 
Vesperugo: Lat., bat, from vesper, evening. 
Vesperus (subgenus of Vesperugo) KevsERLING & Brasivs, 1839. 
Chiroptera, Vespertilionide. 
Wiegmann’s Archiv Naturgesch., I, 313-314, 1839; Wirbelthiere Europa’s, p. 
xiv, 1840; GrEBEL, Die Sáugethiere, 2d ed., 940, 1859. 
Species, 6: Vespertilio serotinus Schreber, V. discolor Natterer, V. nilssonii Keyser- 
ling & Blasius, V. savii Bonaparte, V. /eucippe Bonaparte, and V. aristippe Bona- 
parte, from Europe. 
Name preoccupied by Vesperus Latreille, 1829, a genus of Coleoptera. Replaced 
by Adelonycteris H. Allen, 1892. (See Eptesicus Rafinesque, 1820; and Cnephaus 
Kaup, 1829. ) 
Vesperus: Lat., belonging to the evening. 
Vetelia AwEanriNo, 1891. Edentata, Dasy podid:ze. 
Revista Argentina Hist. Nat., I, entr. 3a, 162-163, fig. 70, June 1, 1891. 
Type: Vetelia puncta. Ameghino, from the lower Eocene of southern Patagonia. 
Extinet. 
Vetelia: Vetel, an Araucanian name of the armadillo. 
Vetulus RkiCcHENBACH, 1862. Primates, Cercopithecidee. 
Vollstind. Naturgesch. Affen, 125-130, pl. xxi: figs. 321—326 d, 1862. 
Species, 5: Simia silenus Gmelin, Semnopithecus nestor Bennett, Presbytis ursinus 
Blyth, P. priamus Blyth, and P. thersites Elliot MS., Blyth (= Cercopithecus 
vetulus Erxleben?), from India and Ceylon. 
New name for Si/enus Lesson, which was supposed to date from 1840, and hence to 
be preoccupied by Silenus Latreille, 1834, a genus of Coleoptera. Both Silenus 
Lesson (which dates from 1834, not 1840), and Silenus Latreille are antedated 
by Silenus Goldfuss, 1820. 
Name preoccupied by Vetula Rafinesque, 1815, a genus of Pisces. 
Vetulus: Lat., old, a little old man. 
Victorlemoineia AmMEGHINO, 1901. Ungulata, Condylarthra, Meniscotheriidee. 
Bol. Acad. Nac. Cien. Córdoba, XVI, 383, July, 1901 (sep. p. 37). 
Species: Victorlemoineia labyrinthica Ameghino, and V. emarginata Ameghino, from 
the ‘Cretaceous’ of Patagonia. 
Extinet. 
Victorlemoineia: In honor of Dr. Victor Lemoine, physician and paleontologist, 
1837-97. In 1873 he discovered the wonderful lower Eocene fauna at Cernay, 
near Reims, France, and described its fossils in a series of more than 25 special 
papers published between 1878 and 1896.* 
Vicugna (‘TIEDEMANN’ f) Lesson, 1842. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Camelide. 
Lesson, Nouv. Tableau Régne Animal, Mamm., 167, 1842; Gray, Cat. Ruminant 
Mamm. Brit. Mus., 101, 1872 (subgenus of Llama). 
Type: Camelus vicugna Molina, from the Andes of the Provinces of Coquimbo 
and Copiapo (Atacama), Chile. 
Vicugna: Peruvian vicuna, vicugna. 

* Fora list of these papers, see the biographical sketch of Lemoine by Gaudry, in - 
Bull. Soc. Géol. de France, 3° sér., XXVI, 300-310, 1898. 
T.Laema and not Vicugna is used by Tiedemann. 
