MYRMECOBIUS—MYSLEMUR. 443 
Myrmecobius--Continued. 
Type: Myrmecobius fasciatus Waterhouse, collected about 90 miles southeast of 
the mouth of Swan River, Western Australia. 
Myrmecobius: opns, uvppunkos, ant; 610s, life, food—hence ‘ ant-eater, from 
its favorite food. 
Myrmecolichnus RricuENBACH, 1836. Edentata, Myrmecophagidee. 
K.Sichsisehe Naturhist. Mus. in Dresden, Ein Leitfaden, 51, 1836; Deutsch- 
lands Fauna, I, Sáugeth., p. xi, 1837. 
Type: The ‘Ameisenlecker,’ Myrmecolichnus didactylus, from Brazil (= Myrmeco- 
phaga didactyla Linnzeus, from Guiana). (See Cyclopes Gray, 1821.) 
Myrmecolichnus: uopuns, uopussos, ant; Atyvos, greedy—i. e., fond of ants. 
Myrmecophaga Linn «us, 1758. Edentata, Myrmecophagide. 
Systema Nature, 10th ed., I, 35, 1758; 12th ed., I, 51-52, 1766; Brisson, Reg- 
num Animale in Classes IX distrib., 2d ed., 12, 14-18, 1762; REHN, Am. Nat- 
uralist, XXXIV, 575-576, 1900 (type erroneously given as M. tetradactyla); 
Tuomas, ibid., XXXV, 143-144, 1901 (type shown to be M. tridactyla). 
Mirmecophaga Scopoli, Introd. Hist. Nat., 500, 1777 (misprint). 
Species, 3: Myrmecophaga didactyla Linnzeus, from Guiana; M. tridactyla Linnzeus 
(type), from Brazil; and M. tetradactyla Linnzeus, from Brazil. 
Myrmecophaga: pbpuné, uopunkos, ant; Gay iv, to eat—i. e., an ‘ant-eater.’ 
Myrmydon Water, 1830. Edentata, Myrmecophagid:e. 
Nat. Syst. Amphibien, 36, 1830. 
Type: Myrmecophaga didactyla Linneeus, from Guiana. 
Myrmydon: uvppuyócv, an ant, an ant's nest—in allusion to the animal’s food. 
Mysarachne Powzr, 1848. Insectivora, Soricide. 
Archiv. Sci. Phys. & Nat., Bibl. Univ. Genéve, IX, 162, 247-248, Oct., 1848; 
Cat. Méth. Vert. Foss. Bassin de la Loire, 13, 1854. 
Type: Mysarachne picteti Pomel (=Sorex araneus Blainville), from the Tertiary of 
Chauffours, France. 
Extinct. 
Mysarachne: uOs, mouse; do&yvy, spider—i. e., a ‘spider mouse.’ 
Mysateles Lesson, 1842. Glires, Octodontide. 
Nouv. Tableau Régne Animal, Mamm., 124, 1842. 
Type: Mysateles peppingii Lesson ( — Capromys prehensilis Poeppig), from Cuba. 
Mysateles: 00s, mouse; ateAns, imperfect. (Possibly from sets, mouse; + Ateles, 
in allusion to the somewhat prehensile tail. ) 
Myscebus Lesson, 1840. Primates, Lemuridze. 
Species Mamm., 207, 214-216, 1840; Nouv. Tabl. Régne Animal, Mamm., 9, 1842. 
Myocebus W AGNER, Wiegmann’s Archiv Naturgesch., 1841, II, 19; Scuryz, Syn. 
Mamm., I, 105, 1844. 
Type: Myscebus palmarum Lesson, from Madagascar. 
Myscebus: uoc, mouse; Kos, a long-tailed monkey—i. e., a ‘mouse lemur.’ 
Myslemur BraiNviLLE (?) *, 1846. Primates, Daubentoniidee. 
Dict. Univ. Hist. Nat., Paris, VIII, 559, 1846; Trourssart, Cat. Mamm. Viv. et 
Foss., I., 40, 1879 (under Cheiromys. ) 
New name (?) for Myspithecus Blainville, 1839, which is preoccupied by Myspithe- 
cus Cuvier, 1833, a genus of Lemuridee. (‘Syn. de Myspithecus.’ ) 
Name antedated by Daubentonia Geoffroy, 1795. 
Myslemur: 0s, mouse; + Lemur. ‘‘Blainvillea composé . . . les noms de Mys- 
pithecus ou Myslemur par lesquels il exprime les doubles affinités que montre 
l'Aye-Aye, d'une part avec les Quadrumanes, en particulier avec les Lémuridés, 
et, d'autre part, avec les Rongeurs."  (Grnvars, Hist. Mamm., I, 175, 1854.) 

* The article in the Dictionaire Universelle is unsigned, and the name is credited 
to Blainville on the authority of Trouessart. 
