392 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Macrochirifer Branpr, 1874. Cete, Platanistidze. 
Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Pétersbourg, 7°, sér., XXI, No. 6, p. 27, 1874.  (Pro- 
posed provisionally as a ‘genus or eng ) 
Type: Macrochirifer vindobonensis Brandt (= Delphinus? brachyspondylus Brandt), 
from Hernals, near Vienna, Austria. 
Extinct. Based on a number of vertebre, a scapula, and some bones of the 
fore limbs. 
Macrochirifer: wakpoxetp, long-handed; pepo, to bear. 
Macrocolus WaGNer, 1844. Glires, Heteromyidee. 
Suppl. Schreber’s Sáugthiere, IV [no text], pl. ccxxxix e (fig. of teeth), 1844; 
Archiv Naturgesch., 1846, I, 172-177; Abhandl. K. Bayerisch. Akad. Wiss., 
München, V, pt. 2, p. 319, 1884. 
Type: Macrocolus halticus Wagner, from Mexico. 
Macrocolus: uapós, long; K@Aor, limb—in allusion to the long hind legs 
Macrocyon AMEGHINO, 1881. Fer, Canide. 
** La Antigüedad del Hombre en el Plata, II, 306, 1881" (fide AmEGHrNo, 1889); 
Cont. Conocimiento Mamif. Fósil. Repüb. Argentina, in Act. Acad. Nac. Cien., 
Córdoba, VI, 306-309, 3 figs. in text, 1889. 
Type: Macrocyon robustus Ameghino, from ** el Arroyo de Frías, en el partido de 
Mercedes," and Villa de Lujan, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. 
Extinct. Based on fragments of bones of the limbs. 
Macrocyon: waKkpos, large; * k«vcv, dog. ‘La talla de este género es gigantesca, 
probablemente mayor que la del Felis onca." (AMEGHINO. ) 
Macrodus (subgenus of Paradoxurus) GRAY, 1864. Ferz, Viverridz. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, 536-539, 2 figs. in text; Cat. Carn., Pachyderm., & 
dentate Mamm. Brit. Mus., 68-71, figs. 10-11, 1869. 
Species, 4: Paradoxurus fasciatus ( Desmarest), P. dubius Gray, P. philippensis 
(Camellus), and P. macrodus Gray (type), from Java and the Philippines. 
Name preoccupied by Macrodon Schinz, 1822; and by Macrodon Müller, 1842, 
both genera of Pisces. 
Macrodus: «rakpos, large; 6d0vs, tooth—from the broad, massive, triangular 
‘flesh-tooth,’ which in P. macrodus has four large and two small cones. 
Macrceuphractus AMEGHINO, 1887. Edentata, Dasypodide. 
Apuntes Prelim. Mamif. Estinguidos de Monte Hermoso; pp. 19-20, Apr., 1887. 
Type: Macreuphractus retusus Ameghino, from Monte Hermoso, about 40 miles 
east of Bahia Blanca, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. 
Extinct. Based on a single scutis of the carapace. 
Macreuphractus: eakpos, large; +Euphractus. 
Macrogeomys Merriam, 1895. Glires, Geomyide. 
N. Am. Fauna, No. 8, pp. 23, AS 185-195, pl. 5, pl. 11 figs. 2-3, pl. 13 figs. 18-19, 
22, 23, pl. 14 figs. 3, 10, Jan. 31, 1895. 
Type: Geomys heterodus Peters, from Costa Rica. 
Macrogeomys: jtiepós, large, great; +Geomys—in allusion to the large size of 
the animal. 
Macroglossus Scuinz, 1824. Chiroptera, Pteropodid:e. 
[‘Macroglosse’ Cuvrrr, Hist. Nat. Mamm., III, livr. xxxvut, pl. (‘Kiodote’ ) 
with 2 pp. text, Dec., 1822.] 
ScHINZ, Naturgesch. und Abbild. Sáugeth. 71, ‘Taf. 51,’ 1824; Cuvier, Dents 
Mamm., [40-41], 248, 1825; Hist. Nat. Mamm., VII, Table Gén. et Méthod., 
p. 2, No. 99, 1842. 
ee a Ecos Man. Mani 115, 1827. 

* The prefix Macro-, in the sense of mm feme requires no further explanation, 
except to indicate relative sizc. 
