499 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Microlestes PLIENINGER, 1847. Allotheria, Plagiaulacidee. 
Jahreshefte Ver. Vaterliind. Naturkunde in Württemberg, Stuttgart, III, 2tes 
Heft, 164-165, Taf. 1, figs. 3-4, 1847. 
Microlistes ScuppER, Nomenclator Zool., pt. 1, 212, 1882 (misprint). 
Type: Microlestes antiquus Plieninger, from a bone bed in the ‘ Keuper’ or Upper 
Trias, near Degerloch and Steinenbronn, Würtemberg, Germany. 
Name preoccupied by Microlestes Schmidt-Goebel, 1846, a genus of Coleoptera. 
Extinct. Based on two molar teeth. 
Mierolestes: uiKpos, small; Ayers, robber. 
Micromeryx Larret, 1851. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Cervidze. 
Notice sur la Colline de Sansan, 36, 1851. 
Type: Micromeryx flourensianus Lartet, from Sansan, Dépt. du Gers, France. 
Extinct. 
Micromerya: mikpos, small; 47)pv&, ruminant. 
Micromys Denne, 1841. Glires, Muridze, Murine. 
Micromys agilis, Kleinmaus, ein neues Sáugthier der Fauna von Dresden, 1-10, 
[‘pl.’], 1841; Lesson, Nouv. Tableau Régne Animal, Mamm., 139-143, 1842 
(subgenus); Trovessart, Cat. Mamm. Viv. et Foss., Rodentia, in Bull. Soc. 
Etudes Sci. d’ Angers, X, 2° fasc., 129-130, 1881 (subgenus). 
Type: Micromys agilis Dehne, from Dresden, Germany. 
Micromys: eukpos, small; “0s, mouse. 
Micromys Meyer, 1846. Glires, Muscardinidee. 
Neues Jahrb. Mineralogie, 1846, 475; Bronn, Handb. Gesch. Natur, III, Index 
Paleeont., 173, 725, 1848; IV, 717, 1849; Picret, Traité Paléont., 2° éd., I, 239, 
1853. 
Type: Micromys ornatus Meyer (nomen nudum), from the Miocene of Weisenau, 
Germany. 
Name preoccupied by Micromys Dehne, 1841, a genus of Muridz. Replaced by 
Brachymys Meyer, 1847. 
Extinct. 
Micromys Aymarp, 1846. Glires, Murid:e, Cricetine. 
Ann. Soc. Agr., Sci., Arts et Comm. du Puy, XII, for 1842-46, 244, 1846; * GEr- 
vais, Zool. et Paléont. Francaises, 2™ éd., 45, 1859 (under Cricetodon aymardi). 
Species: Micromis minutus Aymard, and M. aniciensis Aymard, from the Oligo- 
cene of Ronzon, near Puy, Dépt. Puy-de-Dóme, France. 
Name preoccupied by Micromys Dehne, 1841, a genus of recent Muride; 
and by Micromys Meyer, 1846, a genus of Muscardinid:. Replaced by Myothe- 
rium Aymard, 1853. The species was referred to Mus by Gervais in 1848-52, 
and the specific name changed to aymardi: ** L'espéce qu'il nomme Micromys 
ininutus . . . j'ai dà changer le nom pour la distinguer du Mus minutus?" auct. 
Extinet. ‘‘Etablie d'aprés une mandibule un peu mutilée dans sa partie supé- 
rieure." 
Micronycteris Gray, 1866. Chiroptera, Phyllostomatid:ze. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1866, 113. 
Type: Micronycteris megalotis (= Phyllophora megalotis Gray ), from Brazil (locality 
fide Dosson, Cat. Chiroptera, 479, 1878). 
Micronycteris: piKpos, small; vuKrepts, bat. 
Micropia (subgenus of Clymenia) Gray, 1868. Cete, Delphinide. 
Syn. Whales & Dolphins, 6, 1868; Suppl. Cat. Seals & Whales Brit. Mus., 69, 1871. 
Type: Clymenia stenorhyncha (= Delphinus stenorhynchus Gray ), locality unknown. 
Micropia: From the specific name of Delphinus microps the ‘small-headed Dol- 
phin,’ to which the type species is closely related (Cat. Seals & Whales Brit. 
Mus., 240, 396, 1866). 
* For date of publication, see Bush, Am. Journ. Sci., 4th ser., X VI, 97, July, 1903. 


