APPENDIX: MACHLIS—ONDATRA. 951 
Machlis Kaur, 18— Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Cervidee. 
Kaup, fide Zirret, Handb. Palzeont., IV, Lief. 2, p. 402, 1893. 
The original reference for Machlis has not been found. Zittel quotes the name 
as a synonym of Dama Smith, and Megaceros Owen. 
Machlis: A name applied to the moose or elk by Pliny. 
Macrobates Biutperc, 1828. Primates, Simiide. 
Syn. Faunae Scandinaviae, I, Mamm., Conspectus A (before p. 1), 1828. 
New name for Pongo Geoffroy, 1812 (— Pongo Lacépóde, 1799) 
neeus, 1758. 
Macrobates: je pós, large; Barns, walker—in allusion to the long arms. 
Megalohyrax Anprews, 1903. Ungulata, H yracoidea, Procaviidee ? 
Geol. Mag., London, new ser., decade IV, vol. X, pp. 339-342, fig. 1, Aug., 1903. 
Type: Megalohyrax eocenus Andrews, from the Upper Eocene of the Fayüm, 
Egypt. 
Extinct. Based on ‘the left maxilla with the teeth.’ 
Megalohyrax: uéy es (u£y &A-), great, large; + Hyrax —in allusion to the very 
large jaw which indicates that the animal ‘‘must have been about the size of 
a large tapir.”’ 
Merizus BirrLBERG, 1828. Glires, Murid:e, Gerbillinze. 
Syn. Faunae Scandinaviae, I, Mamm., Conspectus A (before p. 1), 1828. 
New name for Meriones Illiger, 1811. 
Meriaeus: u5pía, the thigh bones, the thighs—in allusion to the large hind legs. 
Mnuolagus BiLtiBerc 1828. Glires, Leporid:e. 
Syn. Faunae Seandinaviae, I, Mamm., Conspectus A (before p. 1), 1828. 
Nomen nudum, occurring only in a table between Lagomys and Lepus. 
Mnuolagus: uv óos, or uvovs, soft down; Aay@s, hare—i. e., a downy hare. 
Moschomys BirrisEnc, 1828. Glires, Murid:e, Microtinze. 
Syn. Faunae Scandinaviae, J, Mamm., Conspectus A (before p. 1), 1828. 
New name for Ondatra Lacépéde, 1799 (type Castor zibethicus Linn:eus, from east- 
ern Canada ), 
Moschomys: 4MóGxos, musk; “0s, mouse—a Greek equivalent of the common 
name ‘muskrat.’ 
Myoprocta Tuomas, 1903. , 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 7th ser., XII, 464, Oct. 1, 1903. 
Type: ‘Dasyprocta’ acouchy Linneeus ( — Cavia acuschy Gmelin), from Guiana. 
Myoprocta: jtOs, uvós, mouse; + (Dasy-)procta. 
Neopithecus Anrr, 1903. Primates, Simiidze. 
Sitzungsber. Math.-Nat. Cl. K. Akad. Wiss., Wien, 1903; fide Nature, vol. 69, 
p. 36, Nov. 12, 1903. 
New name for Anthropodus Schlosser, 1901, which is preoccupied by Anthropodus 
De Lapouge, 1896, a genus of Cercopithecid:e (?). 
Neopithecus: véos, new; zi0nkos, ape. 
Nothobus Bitiperc, 1828. Ungulata, ? 
Syn. Faunae Scandinaviae, I, Mamm., Conspectus A (before p. 1), 1828. 
New name for Sukotyro Nieuhoff (=Sukotyro Kerr, 1792). 
Nothobus: v c95)s, sluggish, stupid; foc, ox. 
Ondatra LaAcÉPEDpE, 1799. Glires, Murid:e, Microtine. 
Tabl. Mamm., 9, 1799; Nouv. Tabl. Méth. Mamm., in Buffon’s Hist. Nat., Didot 
éd., Quad., XIV, 166, 1799; Mém. I’ Institut, Paris, 495, 1801. 
Type: Ondatra zibethicus (— Castor zibethicus Linnzeus), from eastern Canada. 
Not Ondatra Link, 1795, a synonym of Myocastor Kerr, 1792 (type Mus coypus 
Molina), which is a genus of Octodontid:. Name replaced by Moschomys 
Billberg, 1828. (See Fiber Cuvier, 1800. ) 
Ondatra: Indian name of the muskrat of North America. 
See Simia Lin- 
Glires, Dasyproctidee. 
