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or 
Macrotis—Continued. 
Name preoccupied by Macrotis Dejean, 1833, a genus of Coleoptera. See Thiyla- 
comys (‘Owen’) Blyth, 1840. 
Macrotis: waKpos, large; ovs, @rds, ear—from the long, broad, ovate ears. 
Macrotis (subgenus of Cervus) WAGNER, 1855. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Cervide. 
Suppl. Schreber’s Siiugthiere, V, 368-372, 1855. 
Species, 6: Cervus macrotis Say (type), C. richardsoni Audubon & Bachman, C. 
virginianus Gmelin, C. nemoralis H. Smith, C. mexicanus Gmelin, and C. gymnotis 
Wiegmann, from North and South America. 
Name preoccupied by Macrotis Dejean, 1833, a genus of Coleoptera; by Macrotis 
Reid, 1836, a genus of Marsupialia; and by Macrotus Gray, 1843, a genus of 
Chiroptera. Replaced by Otelaphus Fitzinger, 1874. 
Macrotolagus (subgenus of Lepus) Mearns, 1895. Glires, Leporid:e. 
Science, new ser., I, No. 25, p. 698, June 21, 1895; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVIII, 
No. p. 1081, 552, June 24, 1896. 
Type: Lepus alleni Mearns, from Rillito, Pima County, Arizona. ‘‘Created for 
the Mexican group of jack rabbits, of which six species and three additional 
subspecies were found on the Mexican border." (Science, p. 698.) 
Macrotolagus: waKkpos, long; ove, @tos, ear; Awyes, hare—in allusion to the 
enormous ears, which are longer than the hind feet. 1 
Macrotus Lr4cu, 1816. Chiroptera, Vespertilionidz. 
Syst. Cat. Spec. Indig. Mamm. and Birds Brit. Mus., 1, 1816 (Willughby Society 
reprint, 1882). 
Type: Macrotus ewropeus Leach (‘European Longear'), from Devonshire, 
England. (The species has merely the common name without any description. ) 
Macrotus: wakpos, long, large; os, órós, ear. 
TDiacrotus Gray, 1843. Chiroptera, Phyllostomatidee. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, July, 1843, No. cxxt, 21. 
Type: Macrotus waterhousii Gray, from Haiti. 
Name preoccupied by Macrotus Leach, 1816, agenusof Vespertilionidze; by Macrotis 
Dejean, 1833, a genus of Coleoptera; and by Macrotis Reid, 1836, a subgenus of 
Marsupialia. Replaced by Otopterus Lydekker, 1891. 
Macrotus: uapós, long, large; ovs, Grósc, ear—from the very large ears. 
Macroxus F. Cvvizn, 1823. Glires, Sciuride. 
[* Écureuils guerlinguets' DEsMAREsT Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat., nouv. éd., X, 109-111, 
1817—subgenus of Seiurus, including S. «stuans, S. pusillus, and S. albovittatus. ] 
F. Cuvier, Dents Mamm. (Rongeurs), 161, 162, 255, pl. 56, 1823; Mém. Mus. 
Hist. Nat., Paris, 119, 123, pl. 10, fig. 3, 1823; Dict. Classique Hist. Nat., X, 
16, June, 1826 (not Dict. Sci. Nat., X, 1818, as often erroneously quoted); Dict. 
Sci. Nat., LIX, 474, 1829; Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d ser., X X, 275—280, 
Oct., 1867; Tuomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1897, 933 (type fixed). 
Macroschus GLoGER, Hand- u. Hilfsbuch Naturgesch., I, pp. xxx, 89, 1841. 
Species: ‘Le guerlinguet’ (Sciwrus wstuans Linnzeus, type), from Surinam; et ‘le 
toupaye.' ‘‘Mon frére, par une simple indication, a séparé les guerlinguets 
des autres écureuils à cause des caracteres que nous venons de rapporter; indi- 
'ation qui a été suivie par M. Desmarest dans sa Mammalogie, et que j'ai 
suivie moi-méme, mais en donnant à ces animaux le nom de Maeroxus (Des 
Dents considérées comme caractéres zoologiques, in 8vo, No. 56)."  (CuvrER, 
Mém. Muséum, I. c., 119.) 
Madatzeus LgAcH, 1821. Chiroptera, Phyllostomatide. 
Trans. Linn. Soc. London, XIII, pt. 1, 81-82, 1821. 
Medateus Gray, in Griffith’s Cuvier, Animal Kingdom, V, 74, 1827; List. Spec. 
Mamm Brit. Mus., p. xviii, 1845. 
Type: Madatzus lewisii Leach, from Jamaica. 
