(08 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Vizcacia ScuiNz, 1824? * Glires, Chinchillidee. 
Naturgesch. und Abbild. Sáugeth., 243-244, 1824 (?) ; PALMER, Science, new ser., 
VI, 21, July 2, 1897 (name revived). 
Type: Vizcacia pamparum Schinz, from the pampas of Argentina. (See Viscaccia 
Oken, 1816.) 
Voluccella Becusrein, 1800. Marsupialia, Phalangeride. 
‘“Uebers. vierfüss. Thiere, II, 351, 352, 686, 1800"' (fide THomas, Cat. Marsup. & 
Monotrem. Brit. Mus., 163, 164, 1888). 
Species: Voluccella nigra Bechstein, and V. macroura Bechstein (both, according to 
Thomas, synonyms of Didelphis volans Kerr), from southeastern Australia. 
Name preoccupied by Voluccella Geoffroy, 1764; and by Voluccella Fabricius, 1794, 
a genus of Diptera. Replaced by Petauroides Thomas, 1888. 
Voluccella: Dim. of Lat., volucer, flying, fitted for flight—in allusion to the flying 
membrane. 
Vombatus GEorrnov, 1803. Marsupialia, Phascolomyid:e. 
Bull. Soc. Philomatique, Paris, III, 185, Mar., 1803; THomas, Cat. Marsup. & 
Monotrem. Brit. Mus., 213, 215, 1888. 
Wonbatus Frortep, Duméril's Analyt. Zool., aus Franz. mit Zusátzen, 17, 1806. 
Wombatus 'TtEDEMANN, Zoologie, 433, 1808; RAFINESQUE, Analyse de la Nature, 
55, 1815; Desmarest, Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat., new ed., XXV, 500, 1817; ibid., 
XXXVI, 296-298, 1819. 
Type: Didelphis ursina Shaw, from Tasmania. ‘‘M. Bass vient de découvrir dans 
les iles de Fumeaux et aux environs du port Jackson, un nouveau mammiféere, 
que les naturels du pays connoissent sous le nom de Wombat." (GEOFFROY. ) 
See Phascolomis Geoffroy, 1803. 
Vombatus: wombat, corruption of womback or wombach, the native Australian name. 
Vormela (subgenus of Fetorius) Buastus, 1884. Feree, Mustelid:e. 
Bericht Naturforsch. Gesellschaft in Bamberg, XIII, pp. 9-10, 14, 1884. 
Type: Fetorius sarmaticus (Pallas), from Europe. 
Vormela: Latin derived from the German: ‘‘Animal cujus AGRICOLA sub nomine 
Vormelx, (Germanice Wormlein) mentionem fecit."  (PArras, Spic. Zool., II, 
fasc. xiv, 80, 1780.) 
Vulpavus Marsu, 1871. Creodonta, Uintacyonid:e. 
Am. Journ. Sci. & Arts, 3d ser., II, 124, Aug., 1871 (sep. issued June 21). 
Type: Vulpavus palustris Marsh, from the Eocene near Fort Bridger, Wyoming. 
Extinct. Based on ‘several upper molar teeth, and other fragmentary remains.’ 
Vulpavus: Vulpes; Lat., avus, grandfather—i. e., an ancestral fox. 
Vulpes Friscn, 1775. Fere, Canide. 
[ Brisson, Regn. Anim., 2d ed., 173-175, 1762—not a generic name. | 
Fnrscu, Das Natur-System vierfüss. Thiere, in Tabellen, Tab. Gen., 1775; Bow- 
DICH, Anal. Nat. Class. Mamm., 40, 1821; RicHarpson, Fauna Bor.-Am., I, 
83, 1829; Gray, List. Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., pp. xx, 59-62, 1843; W. L. 
ScLATER, Mamm. 8. Africa, I, 97-98, fig. 24, 1900 (type given as V. alopex). 
Type: Der Fuchs, Canis vulpes Linnzeus, from Eurasia. 
Vulpes: Lat., vulpes, volpes, or vulpis, fox. 
Vulpes SKJGLDEBRAND, 1777. Feree, Canide. 
K. Vetensk. Acad. Handlingar, Stockholm, XX XVIII, 265-267, Tab. vr, July- 
Sept., 1777 (ex Brisson, 1756?). 
Type: Vulpes minimus saarensis Skjoldebrand (= Canis cerdo Gmelin, 1787), from 
the Sahara, Africa. Based on the ‘Zerda’ of the Moors. 
See Vulpes Frisch, 1775. 
Vulpicanis (subgenus of Canis) BLAINVILLE, 18387. Feree, Canide. 
Ann. Sci. Nat., Paris, 2° sér., Zool., VIII, 279, Nov., 1837. 
Type: Canis aureus Linnieus, from India. 
Vulpicanis: Vulpes+- Canis. 

* The date is probably not earlier than 1825 and may be later, 
