604 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [Vor. XXXIX. 
adopting Troglodytes as the generic name of the chimpanzee, but 
unfortunately he overlooks the earliest available name, Pan, recently 
revived by Palmer. Also, the authority for the specific name 
of Gorilla gorilla should be Savage, not Wyman. Midas should not 
have been used as a name for a mammalian genus, as it is preoccu- 
pied among the Lepidoptera. The following new subgeneric names 
are proposed for Primates: Pogonocebus to replace Diadema, Lep- 
tocebus for Semnocebus, Maimon for Mormon, Promioclenus for 
Mioclenus. Palmer has recently shown, however, that Mandril of 
Voigt (1831) is available for Mormon, while the same author in 1903 
proposed the subgeneric term Lophocebus to replace subgenus Sem- 
nocebus. 
In the determination of subfamilies, genera, and subgenera, 
Trouessart frequently follows his own preference, and not always, it 
would seem, to best advantage. Thus Pipistrellus and Lasionycteris 
are regarded as subgenera of Vespertilio, and Dasypterus is placed 
as a subgenus of Lasiurus, while two such closely allied forms as 
Nycticeius and Rhogeéssa are nevertheless accorded their generic 
rank. Artibeus is made to include Uroderma and Dermanura as 
subgenera. Other instances might be multiplied. 
Additional new generic and subgeneric names proposed are: 
Jentinkia to replace Wagneria, Aymardia for Cynodon, Pagophoca 
for subgenus Pagophilus, Orthegocerus a new subgenus of Capra. 
The new family name Coendid is proposed instead of Erithizontide 
for the New World porcupines. 
Trouessart has made a laudable attempt to sort out so far as may 
be the numerous new species of Muridz described in 1900 from 
Chile by Philippi, mostly under the generic name Mus. One of 
these names, “ Mus nemoralis,” thought by Trouessart to be an 
Oxymycterus, is Preoccupied by Mus nemoralis Blyth, though this 
seems to have escaped the notice of the compiler. Philippi’s “ Cer- 
vus brachyceros” is similarly preoccupied and is renamed by Troues- 
Sart, Odocoileus philippii. 
The questionable practice of amending names leads the compiler 
to change Tayassu to Tayassus since, he states, barbaric names 
should be latinized. Nevertheless he rejects Dugong in favor of the 
retal Halicore on the ground that the former is a barbaric name. 
It IS a pity, however, that it is not possible to exclude such abnor- 
malities as Guilielmofloweria or Carolozittelidæ ! 
. and Rekn’s list of North American land mam- 
1 1901 (Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 30) was 


