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Miolabis—Continued. 
New name for Protolabis Wortman, 1898 (nec Protolabis Cope, 1876). Includes 
Procamelus fissidens Cope, from the Miocene (Loup Fork beds) of Logan and 
Weld counties, northeastern Colorado; and  Protolabis transmontanus Cope 
(type), from the Miocene of Cottonwood Creek, John Day Valley, Oregon. 
Extinct. 
Miolabis: Mio-(cene); --( Proto-)labis 
to Protolabis. 
Miolophus Owen, 1865. Tillodontia, Esthonychid:e. 
Geol. Mag., London, II, No. xiv, 339-341, pl. x, figs. 1, 3, Aug., 1865. 
Type: Miolophus planiceps Owen, from the Bonon (London Clay) of Sheppey, 
Kent, England. 
Extinct. Based on a portion of the upper jaw, including five teeth, with palate 
and anterior piers of the zygomatic arches. 
Miolophus: ueicov, less; + (Plio-)lophus. 

icating a Miocene genus closely related 
Miopithecus I. Grorrroy, 1842. Primates, Cercopithecid:e. 
Comptes Rendus, Paris, XV, No. 15, p. 720; No. 23, p. 1037, July-Dec., 1842; 
Dict. Univ. Hist. Nat., III, 308-310, 1843; Archiv. Mus., Paris, II, for 1841, 
549-551, 1843 (fide Cat. Mamm., 18, 1851). 
Meiopithecus RErcHENBACH, Vollstiind. Naturgesch. Affen, 103-104, pl. xvmt, figs. 
242-243, 1862. 
Myiopilhecus W ALLACE, Geog. Dist. Anim., II, 173, 1876. 
Type: Simia talapoin ( — Cercopithecus mes Erxleben), from West Africa. 
Miopithecus: utícv, less, smaller; zí05xoc, ape—‘‘rappelle la petite taille du 
Talapoin, type de ce genre."  (GEorrnov.) 
Miosiren Dorro, 1890. Sirenia, Halitheriidze. 
Bull. Soc. Belge de Géol., Palaeont. et H ydrol., III, 415-421, fig. 2 in text, 1890. 
Type: Miosiren kocki Dollo, from the Miocene of Boom, near Antwerp, Belgium. 
Extinct. Based on ‘‘le crine . . . la colonne vertbraleé . . . les cótes . . . 
le sternum . . . le bassin." 
Miosiren: Mio-(cene); 6&1p7)v, siren—i. e. a Miocene sirenian. 
Miothen Corr, 1873. Insectivora, Lepticidee? 
Syn. New Vert. Tertiary Colorado, pp. 5, 8, Oct., 1873; Hay, Cat. Foss. Vert. N. 
Am., Bull. 179, U. S. Geol. Surv., 741, 1902 (synonym of Domnina, type fixed). 
Species: Miothen crassigenis Cope (type), and M. gracile Cope, from the Oligocene 
of Colorado. 
Extinct. 
Miothen: Mio-(cene); suffix -Gev, from—denoting an animal from the Miocene. 
Mioxicebus Lesson, 1840. Primates, Lemurid:e. 
Spec. Mamm., 207, 218-219, 1840; Nouv. Tableau Régne Anim., Mamm., 9, 1842. 
Myoxicebus Aa^ssiz, Nomenclator Zool., Mamm., Addenda, 7, 1846; Index Univ., 
243, 1846. 
Myoxocebus AaAssiz, Nomenclator Zool., Index Univ., 235, 243, 1846. 
Species: Mioricebus griseus Lesson, and M. rufus Lesson, on Madagascar. 
Mioxicebus: Myoxus; KH Pos, a long-tailed monkey. 
Mirmecophaga (see Myrmecophaga). Edentata, Myrmecophagide. 
Mirounga (subgenus of Phoca) Gray, 1827. Ferz, Pinnipedia, Phocidee. 
GRav,* in Griffith's Cuvier, Animal Kingdom, V, 179-181, 1827. 
Morunga Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., pp. Ed 103, 1848 (raised to generic 
rank); Zool. Voy. H. M. S. ‘Erebus & Terror,’ Mamm., 4, 8, pls. rx-x, 1844. 

* A footnote states that the subgenus was proposed by Gray and adopted by Grif- 
fith. No earlier reference has been found and the name seems to be here published 
for the first time. 
