519 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Promeles ZirrEgr, 1893. Fer:z, Mustelide. 
Handb. Paleeont., IV, Mamm., 3te Lief., 650-651, fig. 546, 1893; FonsvrH Major, 
Proc. Zool. Soe. lom 1902, pt. r, 110. 
Type: Mustela palaeattica Weithofer, from the Pliocene of Pikermi, Greece. 
Extinct. 
Promeles: 206, before; + Meles. 
Promephitis Gaupry, 1861. z Fere, Mustelidee. 
Comptes Rendus, Paris, LIT, No. 15, p. 722, Jan.-June, 1861. 
Type: Promephitis lartetii Gaudry, from the Pliocene ( Pikermi beds) of Greece. 
Extinct. Based on ‘une téte entiére.’ 
Promephitis: zp0, before; +- Mephitis. 
Promerycocherus Dovcuass, 1901. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Agriochceride. 
Am. Journ. Sci., 4th ser., XI, 82, Jan., 1901 (provisional name). 
Species, 5: Oreodon superbus Leidy, from Bridge Creek, a tributary of John Day 
River, Oregon; Merycocherus leidyi Bettany, from John Day River (Miocene), 
Oregon; M. chelydra Cope, from John Day River; M. macrostegus Cope, from 
Bridge Creek; and M. montanus Cope, from the Ticholeptus beds of Deep 
River, Montana. 
Extinct. 
Promerycocherus: 7,0, before; -+-Merycocherus. 
Prometheomys Sarunrin, 1901. Glires, Muridee, Microtine. 
Zool. Anzeiger, XXIV, 572-575, figs. 1-4 in text, Sept. 30, 1901. 
Type: Prometheomys schaposchnikowi Satunin, from the vicinity of the ‘Kreuzberg,’ 
in the pass on the military highway of Grusia, over the main range of the 
Caucasus, Tiflis (alt. about 6,500 ft. ). 
Prometheomys: IIpourüeos, Prometheus; (2c, mouse. 
Prominatherium Trier, 1884. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Anthracotheriidee. 
Jeitr. Paleont. Oesterr.-Ungarns, IV, 115-133, Taf. xim figs. 4-6, Taf. xiv, 
1884; LvppEkkER, Cat. Foss. Mamm. Brit. Mus., II, 235 footnote, 1885; 
Rocer, Bericht Naturwiss. Ver. Schwaben u. Neuburg (a. V.) in Augsburg, 
XXIX, 85, 1887; Zrrret, Handb. Paleont., IV, 2te Lief., 325, 327—328, 1893 
(under HEU D IU js 
Type: Anthracotherium dalinatinusn. Meyer, from the upper Eocene of Monte 
Promina, Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary. 
Extinet. Based on an incomplete skull. 
Prominatherium: Named from the type locality, Monte Promina, Dalmatia; 
fnptov, wild beast. 
Promops Gervais, 1855. Chiroptera, Noctilionide. 
Expd. du Comte de Castelnau, Zool., Mamm., II, 58-59, pl. xi figs. 3, 3a, 1855. 
Type: Promops ursinus Gervais, from Miranda, Matto Grosso, Brazil ( — Molossus 
nasutus Spix, from the Rio San Francisco, Brazil). 
Promops: 76, before; + Mops. 
Promylodon Amecuino, 1883. Edentata, Megatheriid:e. 
Bol. Acad. Nac. Cien. Córdoba, V, entr. 3, pp. 298-299, 1883; Cont. Conocimiento 
Mamif. Fósil. Repüb. Argentina, in Act. Acad. Nac. Cien., Córdoba, VI, 744- 
745, pls. 1xx1 fig. 5, nxxir fig. 3, 1889. 
Type: Mylodon (?) paranense Ameghino, from the barrancas del Paraná, Entre 
Rios, Argentina. 
Extinct. Based on a 1ower molar. 
Promylodon: apo, before; 4- Mylodon. 
Promysops AMEGHINO, 1902. Allotheria (Promysopidee ). 
3ol. Acad. Nac. Cien. Córdoba, XVII, 36-37, May, 1902 (sep. pp. 34-35). 
Type: Promysops acuminatus Ameghino, from the Notostylops beds of Patagonia. 
Extinet. 
Promysops: 706, before; 40s, mouse; Oy, aspect. 
