MICROCEBUS—MICROL AGUS. 49] 
Microcebus— Continued. 
Microcebus: uipós, small; «5/05, a long-tailel monkey. The genus includes 
some of the smallest lemurs; M. smithi having a body only 5 inches long and a 
tail 6 inches in length. (BEppARp, Mamm., 544, 1902.) 
Microcherus Woop, 1844. Primates, Microchceride. 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., XIV, 350, Nov., 1844; l'Institut, Paris, 1° sect., No. 578, 
p. 39, Jan. 22, 1845; London Geol. Journ., No. 1, p. 5, 1846. 
Type: Microcherus erinaceus Wood, from the Upper Eocene of Hordwell, Hamp- 
shire, England. 
Extinct. Based on ‘an imperfect cranium.’ 
Microcherus: puiKpos, small; yotpos, hog—from its small size, about that of a 
hedgehog, and its resemblance to Chwropotamus in the peculiar angle of the 
lower jaw. ‘‘Microcherus has that remarkable prolongation backward of the 
angle so strikingly displayed in Charopotamus.”’ 
Micreclenodon Scort, 1892. 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Nov. 15, 1892, 302. 
Type: Triisodon assurgens Cope, from the Puerco Eocene of New Mexico. 
Extinct. 
Microclenodon: uikpósc, small; + Clenodon. 
Microconodon Osporn, 1886. Marsupialia, Dromatheriid:ze. 
Science, VIII, 540, 1 fig. in text, Dec. 10, 1886; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., for 
1886, 362-363, 1 fig. in text, Jan. 25, 1887. 
Type: Microconodon tenuirostris Osborn, from the Triassic of the Chatham coal- 
field, North Carolina. 
Name preoccupied by Microconodus Traquair, 1877, a genus of Pisces. 
by Tytthoconus Palmer, 1903. 
Extinct. Based on a lower jaw. 
Creodonta, 'Triisodontidze. 
Replaced 
Mieroconodon: ut«pós, small; K@vos, cone; 6d@v=ddovs, tooth—in allusion to 
the lower molars, each of which has ‘‘a central cone supporting two smaller 
cones on its anterior and posterior slopes." (OsBoRN. ) 
Microdelphys (subg. of Didelphis) Burmeister, 1856. — Marsupialia, Didelphyidee. 
Erliut. Fauna Brasiliens, 83-87, Taf. x1v fig. 2, xvi figs. 1, 2, 1856; THomas, Cat. 
Marsup. & Monotrem. Brit. Mus., 354, 1888 (type fixed ). 
Microdidelphys Trovrssart, Cat. Mamm., new ed., fasc. v, 1238, 1898 (in 
synonymy ). 
Species, 7: Didelphys tristriata Kuhl (=Sorex americanus Müller, type), D. tri- 
color Desmarest, D. brachyura Schreber, D. velutina Wagner, D. domestica 
Wagner, D. unistriata Wagner, and Microdelphys alboguttata Burmeister, from 
Brazil. 
Microdelphys: uipós, small; +-( Di-)delphys. 
Microdipodops Merriam, 1891. Glires, Heteromyid:e. 
N. Am. Fauna, No. 5, pp. 115-117, July 30, 1891. 
Type: Microdipodops megacephalus Merriam, from Halleck, Elko County, Nevada. 
Microdipodops: uicpós, small; +-Dipodops. 
Microgale THomas, 1882. Insectivora, Tenrecid:e. 
Journ. Linn. Soc. London, Zool., XVI, No. 92, pp. 319—322, 4 figs. in text, Apr. 
6, 1882. 
Species: Microgale longicaudata Thomas (type), and M. cowani Thomas, from the 
Ankáfana forest, eastern Betsileo, Madagascar. 
Microgale: uicpós, small; y «A», weasel. 
Microlagus (subgenus of Lepus) TnovEssAnT, 1897. 
Cat. Mamm., new ed., fase. 111, 660, Oct., 1897. 
Type: Lepus cinerascens Allen, from San Fernando, Los Angeles Co., California. 
Microlagus: ukpos, small; Aay@s, hare. 
Glires, Leporid:e. 
