MILLER AND REHN: NORTH AMERICAN MAMMALS. 175 
1885. Dasyprocta puncUita True, Proc. U. S. nat. mus., vii 
(1884), p. 600. 1885. 
Type locality. — South America. 
i 
Genus AGOUTI Lac^p^de. 
1 1799. Agouti Lacepede, Tableau des divisions, sous-divisions, 
ordres et genres des manimif^res, p. 9 (published as supjilenient to 
Discours d’ouverture et de cldture du cours d’ histoire naturelle et 
; tableaux methodiques des inammif^res et des oiseaux.) Type. — 
I Mas paca Lixxaeus. 
[ The fact that this name antedates Coelogemis F. Cuvier (Ann. 
j , du mus. d’ hist, nat., Paris, x, p. 203, 1807) has been pointed out by 
■ Palmer (Proc. biol. soc. Washington, xi, pp. 243, 248, December 
I : IT, 1897). 
} . * Agouti paca (Linnaeus). 
1766. Lixxaeus, Syst. nat., xii ed., i, p. 81. 
1799. Agouti paca Lacepede, Tableau des divisions, sous- 
divisions, ordres et genres des mammif^res, p. 9. 
1885. Coelogenys paca True, Proc. U. S. nat mus., yii (1884), 
I p. 600. 1885. 
! Type locality. — Brazil. 
Suborder Duplicidextata. 
Family OCHOTONIDAE. 
Genus OCHOTONA Link. 
4795. Ochotona Zool. Beytriige, i, pt. ii, p. 74. Included 
||the species alpinus^ and ochotoua. 
