MYCETES—MYLAGAULUS. 437 
Mycetes [.1icrer, 1811. Primates, Cebide. 
Prodromus Syst. Mamm. et Avium, 70, 1811. 
Species: Simia belzebul Linnzeus, from Brazil; and S. seniculus Linnzeus, from Car- 
thagena, Colombia. 
Name antedated by Alouatta Lacépede, 1799. 
Mycetes: p vinrns, bellower—in allusion to the animal’s powerful voice. (Com- 
pare the common name ‘ howling monkey.’ ) 
Myctonome (see Nyctinomus). Chiroptera, Noctilionid:e. 
Mydaus F. Cuvier, 1821. Fere, Mustelidee. 
Hist. Nat. Mamm., III, livr. xxvrr, pl. with 2 pp. text (‘le Télagon’), Apr., 1821. 
Midaus F. CuvrER, in G. Cuvier's Recherches Oss. Foss. nouv. éd., IV, 241, 474, 
1828. Dents Mamm., 252, 1825. 
Mydaon GroaER, Hand- u. Hilfsbuch Naturgesch., I, pp. xxix, 57, 1841; 
Tuomas, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 6th., XV, 190, Feb. 1, 1895. 
Type: Mydaus meliceps F. Cuvier, from Java. 
Mydaus, uvó co, to be damp or wet (from 4080s, damp, decay )—in allusion to 
the fetid skunk-like odor of the animal. 
Mygale G. Cuvier, 1800.* Insectivora, Talpide. 
[Tableau Élém. Hist. Nat. Anim., 109, 1798—under French name.] 
Lecons Anat. Comp., I, Tabl. 1, 1800 (names only—‘Desman, Mygale’). 
Myogalea J. B. FiscueR, Syn. Mamm., pp. xxvii, 250-251, 1829. 
Myogale Branpt, Wiegmann’s Archiv Naturgesch., 1836, I, 176, 182. 
Type: ‘La musaraigne musquée, ou desman (Sorex moschatus),’ from Russia. 
Name antedated by Desmana Guldenstiidt, 1777. 
Mygale: wvy adn, shrew mouse, field mouse (from 4s, mouse; yaAn, weasel). 
Mygalina I. Grorrroy, 1885. Insectivora, Talpide. 
I. Grorrroy, in Gervais’ ‘‘Résumée Lecons Mammalogie au Muséum, Paris, 
45, 1835" (fide Guérin-Méneville, Régne Animal de Cuvier, I, 14, 1829-38); 
I. GEorrnov, in D'Orbigny's Dict. Univ. Hist. Nat., IV, 709, 1849; Ibid., VIII, 
503-504, 1849; Gervais, Hist. Nat. Mamm., I, 248-249, 2 figs. in text, 1854. 
Type: Mygale pyrenaica É. Geoffroy, from the Pyrenees. ‘‘Suivant M. Isidore 
Geoffroy, dans son cours sur les Mammiféres (Analyse de M. Gervais, p. 
45) . . . le Desman des Pyrénées, Mygale pyrenaica des auteurs ayant des 
caractéres trés différens, et devant . . . former un genre à part qu'il a nommé 
Mygaline." | (GuÉRIN-MÉNEVILLE. ) 
Name antedated by Galemys Kaup, 1829. 
Mygalina: Dim. of Mygale—in allusion to the size of Mygale pyrenaica, which is 
smaller than that of M. moschata, the type of Mygale. 
Myiopithecus (see Miopithecus). Primates, Cercopithecide. 
Mylagaulodon SiNcrarg, 1903. Glires, Castoridee. 
Am. Journ. Sci., 4th ser., XV, 143-144, fig. 1, Feb., 1903. 
Type: Mylagaulodon angulatus Sinclair, from the Miocene (‘uppermost beds of 
the upper John Day’), on Johnson Creek, Wheeler County, Oregon. 
Extinct. Based on ‘a poorly preserved cranium.’ 
Mylagaulodon: Mylagaulus; 650v=66o0vs tooth—‘‘so named from the resem- 
blance of the enlarged premolar to the teeth of the Mylagauli." — (SINCLAIR.) 
Mylagaulus Corr, 1878. Glires, Castoridee. 
Bull. U. S. Geol. & Geog. Surv. Terr., IV, No. 2, pp. 384—385, May 3, 1878. 
Type: Mylagaulus sesquipedalis Cope, irom the Miocene (Loup Fork beds) of 
Kansas or Nebraska. 
Extinct. ‘‘ Represented by a molar tooth, which is the first or last of the series." 
Mylagaulus: wvAn, molar; y «Aoc, a round-bottomed vessel. 

* According to Sherborn (Index Anim., 641, 1145, 1902) this name dates from 1796 
in the form Mygalus (** Mygalus A. Retzius, Animad. Class. Mamm. Linn., 22"), and 
was based on Mygalus moschatus. This reference has not been verified. 
