430 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Molossus—Continued. 
Type: Molossus rufus Geoffroy, from South America, probably Surinam, or Cay- 
enne, French Guiana (but Miller & Rehn give Paraguay). 
Molossus: Lat., a Molossian (hound) noted for its size and strength, from 
MoAoGóóc, Molossian; xcv MoAo660c, a kind of wolf dog used by shep- 
herds—hence * bulldog bat.’ 
Mona (subgenus of Cercopithecus) REtcHENBACH, 1862. Primates, Cercopithecide. 
Vollstind. Naturgesch. Affen, 109-113, pls. xix-xx, figs. 271-282, 1862. 
Species 12, from West Africa: Cercopithecus mona (= Simia mona Schreber, type), 
C. campbelli Waterhouse, C. pogonias Bennett, C. ervlebemü Dahlbom, C. 
nigripes Du Chaillu, C. burnettii Gray, C. labiatus Geoffroy, C. martini Water- 
house, C. erythrarchus Peters, C. erythrotis Waterhouse, C. albogularis Sykes, 
and C. monoides Geoffroy. 
Mona: Span., Portuguese, Ital., mona, female monkey. 
Monachus FLEMING, 1822. Fer», Pinnipedia, Phocide. 
Philos. of Zoology, II, 187 footnote, 1822; ALLEN, Hist. N. Am. Pinnipeds, 707- 
723, 1880. 
Type: Phoca monachus Hermann, from the Mediterranean Sea. 
Monachus: uovayós, monk (from 4ovayós, single, solitary)—i. e., * monk-seal.' 
Monacrum (subgenus of Palwotherium) AvwARD, 1853. Ungulata, Paleeotheriide. 
AyMARD, in Pictet’s Traité Paléont., 2° éd., I, 309, 311, 1853; Comptes Rendus, 
Paris, XX XVIII, No. 14, p. 674, Jan.-June, 1854 (raised to generic rank); Con- 
grés Sci. France, for 1855, I, 231, 264, 1856. 
Species: Palaotheriwm: velaunum Cuvier, P. medium. Cuvier, and possibly other 
species, from the Eocene of France. 
Extinct. 
Monacrum: uóvos, single; «por, summit—in allusion to the character of the 
first lower molar, which has only one distinct ‘lobe.’ (Prcrer. ) 
Monatherium (see Monotherium). Feri, Pinnipedia, Phocidee. 
Monatus (see Manatus ). Sirenia, Manatide. 
Monax WarpeEn, 1819. Glires, Sciuridee. 
Statistical, Political, and Historical Account of the United States, Edinburgh, I, 
225-228, 1819. 
Type: Monax missouriensis Warden — Cynomys ludovicianus (Ord), from the Great 
Plains. 
Name antedated by Cynomys Rafinesque, 1817. 
Monax: Lat., solitary. 
Mongo (‘OaiiBy’) Lesson, 1842. Fer, Viverride. 
Nouv. Tableau Régne Animal, Mamm., 63, 1842. 
Species 7, from India, Malaysia, and Java: Viverra ichneumon Linneeus, Herpestes 
fuscus Waterhouse, H. javanicus G. Cuvier, H. brachyurus Gray, H. malaccensis 
F. Cuvier, Ichneumon edwardsii E. Geoffroy, and Mongo exilis (Gervais). The 
name is credited to Ogilby, who used the form Mungos, in 1835, for H. vitticollis 
Bennett. 
Mongo: Telugu, mangisu; Marathi mangus, mongoose. (See Mungos.) 
Monichus Oxen, 1816. Primates, Cercopithecidze. 
Lehrbuch Naturgesch., 3ter Theil, Zool., 2te Abth., pp. xi, 1208-1211, 1816. 
Species, 3: Cercopithecus mona Schreber, C. diana Linneeus, and Simia roloway 
Erxleben, from West Africa. 
Monillacitherium (see Mouillacitherium). 
Ungulata, Artiodoctyla, Anoplotheriidze. 
