394 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Macropus—Continued. 
New name for Galago Geoffroy, 1796. ** Galago propter famili: similitudinem 
sub Macropodis nomine in systemate meo occurrit." (FiscHEr, Zoog., IH, p. ix.) 
Name preoccupied by Macropus Shaw, 1790, a genus of Marsupialia. 
Macrorhinus F. Cuvinr, 1826. Ferz, Pinnipedia, Phocidee. 
[‘Macrorhine’ Cuvier, Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, XI, 200-208, pl. 14, fig. 1, 
1824.] 
Dict. Sci, Nat., XXXIX, 551-553, 1826 (art. ‘Phoques’); ALLEN, Hist. N. Am. 
Pinnipeds, 742-747, figs. 57-60, 1880. 
Macrorrhinus RErIcHENBACH, Deutchlands Fauna, I, Sáàugthiere, p. viii, 1837. 
Type: Phoca proboscidea Péron, from the Falkland Islands. 
Name preoccupied by Macrorhinus Latreille, 1825, a genus of Coleoptera. Replaced 
by Rhinophoca Wagler, 1830. (See Mirounga Gray, 1827). 
Macrorhinus: uacpópptis, long-nosed (from j4«xpós, large, long; js, ivós, 
nose)—in allusion to the dilatable proboscis of the male. 
Macroscelides A. Smiru, 1829. Insectivora, Macroscelidide. 
Zool. Journ., IV, 435-436, Jan.-May, 1829; S. Afr. Quart. Journ., II, No. 1, p. 64, 
1833; Ill. Zool. S. Africa, pl. x, 1839; W. L. ScrATER, Mamm. S. Africa, II, 
145-154, figs. 125-129, 1901. 
Macroscelis J. B. FiscHeR, Synop. Mamm., 2d ed., Addenda, 657, 664-665, 1830. 
Macroschelides BuvrH, in Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, 1840, 77 footnote; new ed., 
1849, 77 footnote; new ed., 1863, 65 footnote. 
Type: Macroscelides typus Smith (=Sorex proboscideus Shaw), from South Africa. 
Macroscelides: wakpo6KeAys, long-legged; ¢750s, form—from the long metatarsal 
bones which form a long sole on which the animal rests somewhat like a 
kangaroo. (W. L. ScrLATER.) 
Macroschus (see Macroxus). Glires, Sciuride. 
Macrotarsomys MitNr-Epwarps & GRANDIDIER, 1898.  Glires, Murid:e, Cricetinee. 
Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, IV, No. 4, pp. 179-181, 5 figs. in text, 1898. 
Type: Macrotarsomys bastardi Milne-Edwards & Grandidier, from the vicinity of 
the village of Ravori, between Midongy and Thosy, and south of the upper 
Mangoky River, southwestern Madagascar. 
Macrotarsomys: waKpos, long, large; Tap6ds, tarsus; 40s, mouse. 
Macrotarsus Link, 1795. Primates, Tarsiide. 
Beytr. Naturgesch., I, pt. 1, 51, 65-66, 1795; LacÉrEpE, Tabl. Mamm., 5, 1799; 
Nouv. Tabl. Méth. Mamm., in Buffon's Hist. Nat., Didot éd., Quad., XIV, 
151, 1799; Mém. l'Institut, Paris, ITI, 490, 1801. 
Type: Macrotarsus buffoni Link (= Didelphis macrotarsus Schreber— Tarsius spec- 
trum Pallas), from the East Indies. Name antedated by Tarsius Storr, 1780. 
Macrotarsus: uakpos, long; TapGds, tarsus. 
Macrotherium Larrer, 1837. Ungulata, Ancylopoda, Chalicotheriidee. 
Comptes Rendus, Paris, V, No. 12, p. 424, July-Dec., 1837; L'Institut, Paris, V, 
335, 1837; ‘‘ Not. Géol. sur le dépt. du Gers, 1839"; Notice sur la Colline de 
Sansan, 22-23, 1851. 
Type: Mocrotherium sansaniense Lartet, from Sansan, Département du Gers, 
France. 
Extinct. 
Macrotherium: uakpós, large; §nptov, wild beast. 
Macrotis (subgenus of Perameles) Reip, 1887. Marsupialia, Peramelid:e. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, for 1836, No. xvi, 129-131, June 27, 1837; WATER- 
HOUSE, Nat. Hist. Mamm., I, Marsupiata, 358-365, pl. 13, fig. 1, 1846. 
Type: Perameles lagotis Reid, from Swan River, Western Australia. 
