WAGNERIA—XANTHARPYIA. 709 
WwW. 
Wagneria JENTINK, 1886. Fer:e, Procyonid:e. 
Notes from Leyden Museum, VII, 127-129, pls. 4-5, Mar., 1886; Trourssarr, Cat. 
Mamm., new ed., fasc. 11, 249, 1897. 
Type: Paradoxurus annulatus Wagner. Locality unknown, but supposed to be 
Central America. 
Name preoccupied by Wagneria Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830, a genus of Diptera; 
and by Wagneria Alenitzin, 1873, a genus of Protozoa. 
Wagneria: In honor of Johann Andreas Wagner, 1797-1861, formerly professor of 
zoology at the University of Munich; author of the Supplement to Schreber’s 
Süugthiere, 1840-55, and many papers on mammals. 
Washakius Lripy, 1873. Primates, Anaptomorphid:e. 
Rept. U. S. Geol. & Geog. Surv. Terr., I, 123-124, pl. xxvir figs. 3, 4, 1873. 
Type: Washakius insignis Leidy, from the Eocene (Bridger) of Wyoming. 
Extinct. Based on a jaw fragment containing the last two molars. 
Washakius: In honor of Washakie, a chief of the Shoshone Indians of Wyoming. 
Wombatus TigbEMANN, 1808. Marsupialia, Phascolom yid:e. 
Zoologie, 433, 1808; RarrNEsQUE, Analyse de la Nature, 55, 1815; DESMAREST, 
Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat., new ed., XXV, 500, 1817; ibid., X XXVI, 296-298, 1819 
(no species given). 
Emendation of Vombatus É. Geoffroy, 1803. '**Le Wombat ( Wombatus fossor), 
dont M. Geoffroy avait d'abord formé un genre provisoire, a été admis et 
appelé amblotis par Illiger." | (DEsMAREST, p. 500.) 
Wombatus: wombat, corruption of womback or wombach, the native Australian name. 
Wonbatus (see Vombatus). Marsupialia, Phascolomyid:e. 
Wortmania Hay, 1899. Edentata, Ganodonta, Stylinodontide. 
Science, new ser., IX, 593, Apr. 21, 1899. 
Wortmannia LypEKKER, Zool. Record for 1899, XXXVI, Mamm, 32, Index New 
Genera, 16, 1900. 
Type: Hemiganus otariidens Cope, from the Puerco Eocene of northwestern New 
Mexico. 
Extinct. 
Wortmania: In honor of Dr. Jacob Lawson Wortman, 1856—, ‘‘in recognition of 
the valuable work . . . done in vertebrate paleontology.’’ (Hay. ) 
Wynyardia Spencer, 1901. Marsupialia, ? 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1900, pt. rv, 776-795, pls. xrix-r, figs. 1-4 in text, 
Apr. 1, 1901. 
Type: Wynyardia bassiana Spencer, from the Tertiary beds of Table Cape, near 
Wynward township, northern Tasmania. 
Extinct. Based on a skull, limb bones, pelvie girdle, and other bones. 
Wynyardia: From Wynyard, Tasmania, the township near which the remains 
were found. 
X. 
Xantharpyia Gray, 1843. Chiroptera, Pteropodid:e. 
List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., pp. xix, 37-28, 1843; Zool. Voy. H. M. 8. ‘Sul- 
phur, 30, 1844; Marscurg, Fledermiiuse Berl. Mus. Naturkunde, Lief. r, 
Megachiroptera, 65-68, 1899 (type fixed). 
Species, 3: Pteropus amplexicaudatus Geoffroy (type), from Timor; P. «gyptiacus 
Geoffroy, from Egypt; and P. stramineus Temminck,* from Africa. 
Xantharpyia: &xvfós, yellow;-- Harpyia—trom the characteristic color. 
* According to Dobson (Cat. Chiroptera Brit. Mus., 77, 1878), P. stramineus Tem- 
minek — P. stramineus Geoffroy, which is said to have come from Timor. 
