950 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Griphopithecus AnEL, 1903. Primates, Simiidee. 
Sitzunesber. Math.-Nat. Cl. K. Akad. Wiss., Wien, 1903; fide Nature, vol. 69, p. 
36, Nov. 12, 1903. 
Type: Griphopithecus suessi Abel, from the Miocene Leithakalk of the Vienna 
Basin, Austria. 
Extinet. Based on isolated molars. 
Griphopithecus: y pios, riddle; 276K 0s, ape—probably in allusion to its affinities. 
Haligyna BitiBerG, 1828. . Sirenia, Hydrodamalidee? 
Syn. Faunae Scandinaviae, I, Mamm., Conspe: tus A, 33-34, 1828. 
Type: Trichechus manatus borealis Gmelin, from Bering Is and, Bering Sea, but 
said to occur also on the coast of Norway. ‘‘Hab. non raro ad oras maritimas 
Noryegize borealissimas, sub nomine fab loso: Havfr e co nita; ex improviso 
nempe super maris su;erficie visa, speciem quandam humanam forma sua 
peculiari sistit." —(BrrríBERG.) 
Haligyna: CAs, &Aóc, sea; y vv), woman—i. e., a mermaid. 
Hyaenognathus J. C. Merriam, 1903. Fer, Canide. 
Bull. Dept. Geol. Univ. Calif., III, No. 14, 278-283, pl. 28, text figs. 1, 3, Nov., 
1903. 
Type: Hyaenognathus pachyodon J. C. Merriam, from the late Pliocene or Quater- 
nary of Asphalto, Kern County, California. 
Extinct. Based on a mandible. 
THyaenognathus: Hyena; yváfos, jaw—in allusion to ‘the lower jaw [which] 
is short and heavy, having a strong resemblance to that of the hyzena.”’ 
Karoomys Broom, 1903. Allotheria, ? 
Geol. Mag., London, new ser., decade IV, vol. X, p. 345, 1 fig. in text, Aug., 1903. 
Type: Kuroomys browni Broom, from the Triassic Karoo beds of Ariwal North, 
South Africa. 
This is probably the earliest mammal thus far discovered. 
Extinct. Based on a right lower jaw without teeth. 
Karoomys: Karoo, name of the beds in which the type was found; “0s, mouse. 
Laboura Bitiperc, 1828. Glires, Erethizontid:ze. 
Syn. Faunae Scandinaviae, I, Mamm., Conspectus A (before p. 1), 1828. 
New name for *Cuendu Maregrave’ (— Coendou Lacépéde, 1799). 
Laboura: Aaufpar (2d aorist, ZA«gov), to grasp; o?p«, tail—in allusion to the 
prehensile tail. 
Lonchetes BiriBERG, 1828. Glires, Octodontide. 
Syn. Faunae Scandinaviae, I, Mamm., Conspectus A (before p. 1), 1828. 
Emendation of Loncheres Iliger, 1811. 
Lonchetes: Ady yy, spear; yairn, hair—in allusion to the flattened spines mixed 
with the fur. 
Lonchophylla Tuomas, 1903. Chiroptera, Phyllostomatide. 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 7th ser., XII, 458-460, Oct. 1, 1903. 
Type: Lonchophylla mordax Thomas, from Lamarao, northwest of Bahia, Brazil. 
Lonchophylla: Aóy yy, spear; $vAAorv, leaf—in allusion to the long, broadly 
spatulate inner upper incisors. 
Lucifer Linnaus, 1763. Primates, Simiidee. 
Ameen. Acad., VI, 70, 1763; SHerBorn, Index Anim., 556, 1136, 1902. 
Type: Lucifer aldrovandi Linneeus. Erroneously given as genus by Sherborn; in 
reality a name applied to a supposed species or race of apes. The date is 
properly 1763 and not 1760. 
Lucifer: Lat., light-bringing. 
Machimus Bi_iperG, 1828. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Suid:e. 
Syn. Faunae Scandinaviae, I, Mamm., Conspectus A (before p. 1), 1828. 
Nomen nudum, in a table, following Phacocherus and Sus. ; 
Machimus: uayyeos, warlike—i. e., a fighter. 
