408 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Meles— Continued. 
Type: Meles meles Brisson (= Ursus meles Linnieus), from Europe. 
Meles: Lat., badger. 
Melesium RariNEsQvE, 1815. Ferze, Mustelidee. 
Analyse de la Nature, 59, 1815; Am. Monthly Mag., I, No. 6, p. 436, Oct., 1817. 
New name for Taxus Cuvier, 1800 ( * Melesium R. Taxus Cuv. ). 
Melesium: Lat. meles, badger. B 
Melictis Scuinz, 1848. Fere, Canide. 
'Note sur un nouveau genre de Mammifére rapace du Brésil (petit 4° avec 
pl. coloriée);" Revue Zoologique, 176-178, June, 1848. 
Melictes Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, 498 (in synonymy). 
Type: Melictis beskii Schinz, from ‘Nouveau Fribourg, Minas Geraés, Brazil. 
Equals Icticyon Lund (Gill). 
Melictis: Meles +- Ictis. 
Melitoryx GrLocER, 1841. Fer:e Mustelidze. 
Hand- u. Hilfsbuch Naturgesch., I, pp. xxix, 57, 1841; THomas, Ann. & Mag. 
Nat. Hist., 6th ser., XV, 190, Feb. 1, 1895. 
New name for Mellirora Storr, 1780. The genus includes two species of Ratels from 
southern India and Africa. 
Melitoryx: wéAt, uéAiros, honey; ópv&, a tool for digging—frum the animal's 
fossorial habits and fondness for honey. 
Mellivora Srorr, 1780. Fer, Mustelidze. 
Prodromus Methodi Mamm., 34, tab. 4, 1780; W. L. ScrATER, Mamm. S8. Africa, 
I, 109-112, figs. 29, 30, 1900. 
Melivora GRAY, List Osteol. Spec. Brit. Mus., pp. x, 19, 1847. 
Type: Viverra ratel Sparrmann, from the Cape of Good Hope. (The name is 
based on the animal figured in ‘‘ Act. Holm. 1777, t. 4, f. 3.") 
Mellivora: Lat. mel, honey; voro, to devour—trom its favorite food. 
Mellivorodon LvpEkkzn, 1884. Fere, Mustelidee. 
Paleeont. Indica (Mem. Geol. Surv. India), ser. 10, II, pt. vr, 185-186, pl. xxvri, 
figs. 7-8, Jan., 1884. 
Type: Mellivorodon paleindicus Lydekker, from the villages of Asnot and Niki in 
the Siwaliks of the Punjab, India. 
Extinet. Based on two fragments of the mandible. 
Mellivorodon: Mellivora; 660v=06 ovs, tooth. 
Melogale I. Grorrroy, 1834. Fere, Mustelidee. 
Bélanger's Voy. Indes-Orientales, Zool.,129, Mamm ., pl. 5, 1834; Gray, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. London, 1865, 152-153. 
Type: Melogale personata Geoffroy, from the vicinity of Rangoon, Pegu, Burma. 
Melogale: Meles; y «Ar, weasel—trom its resemblance to the badger, especially 
in color. 
Melonycteris DoBsow, 1877. Chiroptera, Pteropodid:e. 
Proe. Zool. Soc. London, 1877, 119-121, pl. xvii, figs. 4-7 in text; Cat. Chirop- 
tera Brit. Mus., 97-98, 1878. 
Type: Melonycteris melanops Dobson, from Duke of York Island (east of New 
Guinea). 
Melonycteris: urjAov, tree-fruit; vvxrepíc, bat—i. e. a fruit bat. 
Melursus MEvEn, 1793. Ferz, Urside. 
Uebers. neu. Zool. Entdeckungen in Neuholland und Afrika, 155-160, 1793. 
Type: Bradypus ursinus Shaw, from India. 
Melursus: Lat. mel, honey; +-Ursus—‘honey bear,’ from its fondness for honey. 
