O. G. Dely szerk.: Vertebrata Hungarica 10/1-2. (Budapest, 1968)

Kretzoi, M.: New generic names for homonyms 163-166. o.

VERTEBRATA HUNGARICA MUSEI HISTORICO-NATURALIS HUNGARICI Fasc. 1-2. Tom. X. 1968. New generie names for homonyms By Dr. M. Kretzoi Hung. State Geological Survey, Budapest Six generic names, all preoccupied, obviously represent valid generic-subgeneric taxa of Mammals; thus they seem to merit new names. In the following new names will be established for these homonyms. Microcnus MATTHEW (Megalonychidae ) Microcnu

s MATTHEW (1915) 1918, erected for M. gliriforml

s MATTHEW (1915) 1918, from the Quaternary of Cuba (Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., 26,1:52, nom.nuda and dtto, 29,, 4:660), is preoccupied by Microcnu

s REICHENOW 1877 (Aves). It would be replaced by Cubanocnus n. nom. (type: Mi

crocnus gliriformis MATTHEW 1918). Leptotomus MATTHEW (Paramyidae) Leptotomu

s MATTHEW 1910, based on Paramys grangeri MATTHEW 1910, from the Uinta Upper Eocene (Bull.

Amer.Mus.N. H.

28,6:50), as a subgenus of Paramy

s

, Is preoccupied by Leptotomu

s GAHAN 1894 (Coleoptera) and is to be changed into Ulntaparamy

s n. nom. (type: Paramys granger

i MATTHEW 1910).