VICUNIA—VIVERRICULA. 707 
Vicunia RArrNEsQUE, 1815. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Camelidz. 
Analyse de la Nature, 55, 1815. 
New name for Lama Cuvier, 1800 = Lama Frisch, 1775 (* Vieunia R. Lama Cuv. ). 
Viscaccia OxeEn, 1816. Glires, Chinchillidee. 
[ Viscacia RArINESQUE, Analyse de la Nature, 56, 1815—nomen nudum. } 
OxeEN, Lehrbuch Naturgesch., 3ter Theil, Zool., 2te Abth., 835-837, 1816; ScHINZ, 
Cuvier's Thierreich, IV, 429-431, 1825; Tuomas, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XIV, 
25, 1901. 
Vizcacia Scuinz, Naturgesch. und Abbild. Sáugeth., 243-244, 1824(?); PALMER, 
Science, new ser., VI, 21, 1897. i 
Viscacia RENGGER, Naturgesch. Sáugeth. Paraguay, 372 footnote, 1830. 
Species: Lepus chilensis Molina, and Mus laniger Molina, from Chile. 
Viseaccia: Am. Bp. viscacha, bizeacha, prob. of Peruvian origin. (Century Dict.) 
Vishnutherium LvpEkkER, 1876. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Giraffid:ze. 
Records Geol. Surv. India, IX, pt. 3, pp. 91, 103, Aug., 1876. 
Type: Vishnutherium iravadicum Lydekker, from Burma. 
Extinct. Based on part of a left mandible containing the first and second true 
molars. 
Vishnutherium: Vishnu, the Preserver, the supreme god of the Hindu pantheon; 
fnptov, wild beast. 
Vison Gray, 1843. Fer:e, Mustelidze. 
List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., pp. xx, 64-65, 1843; Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 
1865, 115. 
Type: Mustela lutreola, Linn:eus, from Eurasia. 
Name antedated by Lutreola Wagner, 1841. 
Vison: Lat., scout (Jordan's Man. Vert., 8th ed., 344, 1899). 
Origin unknown (Century Diet. ). 
Viverra LixN Eus, 1758. Fere, Viverrid:e. 
Systema Naturze, ed. x, 48-44, 1758; ed. x11, 63-66, 1766; W. L. ScLATER, Mamm. 
S. Africa, I, 50-52, 1900 (fixed type). 
Species, 5: Viverra ichneumon Linn:eus, from Egypt; V. mephitis Linnzus, and V. 
putorius Linneeus, from North America; V. zibetha Linnzeus (type), and V. 
genetta Linnzeus, from India. 
Viverra: Lat., ferret. 
Viverravus Marsn, 1872. Creodonta, Viverravide. 
Am. Journ. Sci. & Arts, 3d ser., IV, 127, Aug., 1872 (sep. issued July 22). 
Type: Viverravus gracilis Marsh, from the Eocene of Grizzly Buttes, near Fort 
Bridger, Wyoming. 
Extinct. Based on ‘two lower jaws with teeth, and a sectorial upper molar of 
one individual, and portions apparently of several others.’ 
Viverravus: Viverra; Lat. avus, grandfather—i. e., an ancestral Viverra. 
Viverriceps Gray, 1867. Fer:e, Felidee. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867, 268, figs. 5, 6; Cat. Carn., Pachyderm., & Eden- 
tate Mamm. Brit. Mus., 16-18, figs. 5, 6, 1869. 
Species, 4: Viverriceps bennettii Gray (= Felis viverrina Bennett), from India; Felis 
planiceps Vigors & Horsfield, from Sumatra; Leopardus ellioti Gray, and Felis 
rubiginosa Geoffroy, from India. 
Viverriceps: Viverra; -- -ceps (Lat. caput), head. 
Viverricula Hopason, 1838. Fer», Viverrid:e. 
Ann. Nat. Hist., I, 152, Apr., 1838; Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, X, pt. 2, p. 909, 
1841; ANpERson, Zool. & Anat. Researches, I, 166, 1878. 
Species: Viverra. indica Geoffroy ( — V. malaccensis Gmelin), and V. rape [rasse 
Horsfield], from India and Malaysia. 
Viverricula; Dim. of Viverra, 
