404 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Megaera TrEwMiNck, 1835-1841. Chiroptera, Pteropodid:e. 
Mon. Mammalogie, II, 14* Mon., 274; Ibid., 17* Mon., 357-359, pl. xix, 1835-41. 
Megera Temminck, Echo du Monde Savant, 8° Ann., No. 654, p. 452, Aug. 7, 
1841 (misprint). 
Type: Pachysoma ecautatum Temminck, from the district of Padang, Sumatra. 
Name preoccupied by Megaera Wagler, 1830, a genus of Reptilia; and by Megaera 
Robineau-Desvoidy,1830,a genusof Diptera. Replaced by Megerops Peters, 1863. 
Megaera:* Méyaipa, Megaira—in Grecian mythology, one of the three Furies. 
Megaerops PrrEns, 1863. Chiroptera, Pteropodid:e. 
Handb. Zool, I, 5ter Bogen, 67, Mar., 1863 (unpublished?); Monatsber. K. 
Preuss. Akad. Wiss., Berlin, May, 1865, 256; Ibid., Dec., 1867, 867-868. 
New name for Megaera Temminck, 1835-1841, which is preoccupied by Megaera 
Wagler, 1830, a genus of Reptilia; and by Megaera Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830, 
a genus of Diptera. 
Megaerops: Megaera; ow, aspect. 
Megalacrodon (see Megacrodon). Ungulata, Condylarthra, Phenacodontide. 
Megaladapis Fonsvru Masor, 1893. Primates, Megaladapid:e. 
Proc. Roy. Soc. London, LIV, No. 236, pp. 176-179, Sept. 30, 1893. 
Type: Megaladapis madagascariensis Forsyth Major, from a marsh at Ambolisatra, 
on the southwest coast of Madagascar. 
Extinct. Based on **a somewhat imperfect Mammalian skull, together with a 
right and left mandibular ramus, apparently belonging to the same specimen." 
Megaladapis: uéy es (uey cA-), great, large; + Adapis. 
Megaleia (subgenus of Halinaturus) GisrEL, 1848. Marsupialia, Macropodidze. 
Naturgesch. Thierreichs f. hóhere Schulen, p. ix, 1848 (under Macropus). 
Type: Halmaturus laniger ( — Kangurus laniger Gaimard), from South Australia. 
Megaleia: wey adetos, magnificent, stately. 
Megaloceros Brookes, 1828. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Cervid:e. 
Prodromus Syn. Anim., comprising a Catalogue Raisonné of the Zootomical 
Collection of Joshua Brookes, London, 20, 1828. 
Type: Megaloceros antiquorum Brookes, from the Pleistocene of Ireland. 
See Megaceros Owen, 1844. 
Extinct. 
Megaloceros: uéy es (u&y cÀ-), great; Képas, horn—in allusion to the enormous 
antlers. 
Megalocnus Lxripbv, 1868. Edentata, Megalonychide. 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868, 179-180. 
Megalochnus AwuEGHINO, Antigüedad del Hombre en el Plata, 308-309, 1881; 
LYDEKKER, Cat. Foss. Mamm. Brit. Mus., V, 111, 1887 (in synonymy); 
Nicholson & Lydekker's Man. Palzeont., II, 1299, 1889. 
Type: Megalonyr rodens Leidy, from Ciego-Montero, Cienfuegos, Cuba. 
Extinct. Based on De Castro's description and figures.of ‘the greater part of a 
lower jaw.’ | 
Megaloenus: £y es (uey cA-), great; O«vos, sluggishness—i. e., a great sloth. 
Megaloglossus PaGensrecHer, 1885. Shiroptera, Pteropodide. 
Zool. Anzeiger, VIII, No. 193, p. 245, Apr. 27, 1885. ‘‘Jahrb. Hamburg. Wiss. 
Anstalten, II, 125-129, pl. 1, 1885"' (fide W. L. ScrATER, Zool. Record, for 
1885, X XII, Mamm., 1886, p. 22). 
Type: Megaloglossus woermanni Pagenstecher, from Ssibange-Farm, in the Gaboon 
country, West Africa. 
* According to Agassiz, the word is derived from péyas, large; azp«, hammer, 
(Nomenclator Zool., Mamm., Addenda, 6, 1846. ) 
