The authority for the name Nyeticebus menagensis

General Notes.

89

CORRECTIONS REGARDING THE

NAIVIES

OF TWO RECENTLY DESCRIBED AMPHIBIA SALIENTIA.

Ill apaper onthe Reptilia

and Amphibia

^of

Gorgona

I.sland, Coloniljia (Bull. Mas.

Comp.

Zool., ^vol. 46, no. _{5, p. 101,} June, 1905), the writer described a

new

frog, towliich

by

^{a curious}inadvertence the

name

Pros- theraspis ⁽i^ic)femoralis

was

_given. This

name

^is preoccupied

by

^Pros- therapisfemoralia Boulenger, describedfromthe HuallagaRiver,northern Peru (Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc,

London,

1883, p. 635, pi. 57, fig.1).

Since the

Gorgona

^Island species ^is quite distinct, ^it

must

thereforebe re-named, and

may

^{stand as} Prostherapis boulenger! Barbour.

A

^{correction isalso tobe}

^made

^{inthe case of} Cacopoidcs ^borealis Bar- bour, described ^as the type ^of a

new

_genus

and

_{species in}a paper on

"Some New

Reptiles

and Amphibians"

^{(Bull. Mus.}

Comp.

Zool., vol.

50, no. _{12,p. 321, April,} 1908). ^It appears ^{that this}

must now

be con- sidered identical with Callula verrucosa Boulenger, though consideral>ly variantfrom_{the type}ofthat_species

and

_vastly

removed

fromitinrange.

Boxilenger's specimen

came

from

Yunnan,

^{while that}

on which

_{the sup-} posed

new

_species

was

_based,was collected atAntung, Manchuria.

— _Thomas

_Barbour.

THE AUTHORITY FOR THE NAME NYCTICEBUS MENA GEN

^SIS.

The

_Philippine Slow

Lemur

was _originally called menagensis without assignment ^to

any

genusⁱⁿ

an

article in the Zoologischer Anzeiger ^for 1892,

volume XV,

page ^{147. Prof.}

H.

F. Nachtriebwas apparently^the authorofthe_article,butinaletterto

me

dated

June

7, 1906,heattributed the account as printed ^{to Prof.}

Dean

C. Worcester. (See Lyon, ^Proc.

U. S. Nat. Mus.,

XXXI,

p. 531, footnote,

November

_{9, 1906.)}

As

a specific

name

pnl)]ished without _inclusion, even questionably, ⁱⁿ

any

genus has no ^valid standing, Ni/ciicebus mcr\agensis can not date from 1892

and

can not be attributed to either Nachtrieb orWorcester. Mr.

Oldfleld

Thomas

has_recentlyattempted ^to

show

_(Ann.

Mag.

^Nat. Hist., 8th ser.,I,p.4<)9,June, 1908) that the

name

shoulddatefromTrouessart's CatalogusINIammalium,1897,

and

thatTrouessartshould be creditedwith the authorship^ofthe

name

asbeing the ^firsttousemenagensisⁱⁿcombi- nationwithagenus^{of lemurs.}

An

earlieruseofthe

name

inabinomial sense, however,

was made

by

Lydekker

ⁱⁿthe ZoologicalRecord_{for 1892,}

volume XXIX,

publishedin 1893,on page ^25,underINIammalia,wherethe com])ination

Lemur

_menagensisoccursaswell asa referencetothe_original accountofthe_speciesby^Nachtrieli

and

Worcester. Itwouldseem,^there- fore, thatthescientific

name

of tliePhilippine Slow

Lemur

shouldstand asNgcticebusmenagensis (Lydekker)

and

datefrom 1893.

— _{Marcus Ward}

_Lyon,Jr.