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Megatherium—Continued. 
Megaterium GEorrRov, Bull. Sci. Soc. Philomatique, Paris, I, 102, Apr.—June, 1796. 
Megalotherium  LvpEKKER, in Nicholson & Lydekker's Man. Paleont., II, 1295 
footnote, 1889; Geog. Hist. Mamm., 103, 1896 (suggested emendation ). 
Type: Megatherium americanum (Blumenbach), from the Pleistocene of the Rio 
Lujan, near Buenos Aires, Argentina. (FLower & LypEKKER, Mamm., Living 
& Extinct, 185, 1891). 
Extinct. Based on a nearly complete skeleton. 
Megatherium: u£y es, u£y t, great; 9piov, wild beast—from its huge size. 
Megencephalon Oszorn, Scorr & Speir, 1878. Fer, Mustelide. 
Paleont. Rept. Princeton Sci. Expd. of 1877, in Cont. Mus. Geol. & Arch:eol. 
Princeton College, No. 1, pp. 20-22, Sept. 1, 1878; Ibid., No. 3, pp. 39-41, 
pl. vu, fig. 6, May, 1883. 
Megencephalum PALACKY, Zool. Jahrbuch, X V, 253, 1901. 
Type: Megencephalon prünzvus Osborn, Scott & Speir, from the Eocene of Dry 
Creek plateau, near Fort Bridger, Wyoming. 
Extinct. Based on ‘an intracranial cast separate from the bone which had 
enclosed it.’ 
Megencephalon: u£y as, large; iy Képados, brain—in allusion to the typespecimen. 
Megistosaurus (‘GopMAN’) Haran, 1828. Cete, Physeteridee. 
HaRLAN, Am. Journ. Sci. & Arts, XIV, 186-187, July, 1828; GopMaw teste 
HanLAN, Edinburgh New Philos. Journ., XVII, No. 34, pp. 361-362, Oct., 
1834; Lerpy, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d ser., VII, 444, 1869 (synonym 
of Physeter macrocephalus) . 
Type: Species not named. Based on some bones found at the mouth of the 
Mississippi River and supposed by Godman to be the ‘remains of the largest 
Saurian fossil ever heard of.’ ‘‘On the first view, it was very easy to perceive 
that the bones were not fossil, but that they were portions of the skeleton of the 
recent spermaceti whale, ‘Physeter macrocephalus.’’’ (HARLAN, l. c. 1828.) 
Megistosaurus: u£yi6ros, greatest, largest; Gatdpos, lizard, reptile. 
Megeera (sec Megaera). Chiroptera, Pteropodide. 
Meiopithecus (see Miopithecus). Primates, Cercopithecid:ze. 
Melampus (subgenus of Martes) Gray, 1865? Ferze, Mustelidze. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865, 105 (only in synonymy of Martes melanopus); 
Cat. Carn., Pachyderm., & Edentate Mamm. Brit. Mus., 83, 1869 (insynonymy ). 
Type: Mustela melanopus Temminck, from Japan. 
Melampus: 4eA&puzovs, black-footed. Evidently suggested by the specific name 
of the type. 
Melanaxis Hgvpzg, 1888. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Cervidee. 
Mém. Hist. Nat. Empire Chinois, II, 8, 19, pls. riz, xiv, fig. 5, 1888; LypEKKER, 
Zool. Record for 1887, XXIV, Mamm., 45, 1888; ErEna, Cat. Sist. Fauna Fili- 
pinas, I, 36, 1895. 
Type: Cervus alfredi Sclater, from the Philippine Islands. (For locality, see 
BnookE, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1877, 59-60. ) 
Melanaxis: uéAas, uéAavos, black; + Axis. 
Melanomys (subgenus of Oryzomys) THomas, 1902. Glires, Muridee, Cricetinze. 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 7th ser., X, 248, Sept. 1, 1902; Novitates Zool., X, No. 
1, p. 41, Apr. 20, 1903. 
Type: Oryzomys phxopus Thomas, from Pallatanga, Ecuador. 
Melanomys: édas, uéAavos, black; “0s, mouse—in allusion to ‘‘the general 
dark colour of its members.”’ 
Meles Brisson, 1762. Fer», Mustelidze. 
Regnum Anim. in Classes IX distrib., 2d ed., 13, 183-187, 1762; Srorr, Pro- 
dromus Methodi Mamm., 34, tab. a, 1780; RErzivs, Fauna Sueciae, 26, 1800; 
MerrIAM, Science, new ser., I, No. 14, p. 376, Apr. 5, 1895 (type fixed). 
