Notes on the Nomenclature of the Chiroptera. Ill 



and therefore remained aiiomen nudura until one year after the 

 appearance of Peters' description. If Gray has anywhere de 

 scribed the species prior to 1866, his name Guandira will of 

 course take precedence over Phylloderma. 



Lophostoma D'Orbigny, * is antedated at least nine years by 

 Tonatia Gray, 1827. Lophostoma was based on L. sylvicolum (= 

 Phyllostoma amblyotis Wagner, 1843), and according to Dobson, 

 contains two other species Vampyrus bidens Spix and Lopho 

 stoma brasiliense Peters. F. bidens, however, is the type of Tonatia 

 Grajr. The genus was published in volume V of Griffith's Cuvier, 

 Animal Kingdom, as follows: " Vampyrus, it is understood, was 

 long ago appropriated by M. Geoffroy (in a MS. communication 

 to Dr. Leach) as a generic name to F. spectrum of Linnaeus ; but 

 Spix in his splendid work on the animals of Brazil, now pub 

 lishing, has adopted it for three species there described, the 

 Oirrhosus, Soricinus, and Bidens. * * * Mr. Gray proposes * * * 

 to divide the three species of Spix's genus Vampyrus above men 

 tioned into two genera, the one under the name Istiophorus, in 

 cluding Cirrhosus and Soricinus, and the other under that of 

 Tonatia, including Bidens only."f 



PTEROPODID^E. 



Among the fruit-eating bats, changes are inevitable in the 

 well-known genera Macroglossus (or Carponycteris), Cynonycteris 

 (or Xantharpyia), Harpyia, and Cephalotes. Macroglossus, preoc 

 cupied in Entomology, was replaced in 1891 by Carponycteris, Ly- 

 dekker. This latter name is antedated by Kiodotas, proposed in 

 1840 by Blyth,J who had previously discovered that Macroglossus 

 was not available, and suggested a Latinized form of the common 

 name as a substitute. The adoption of Kiodotus necessitates a 

 new name for the subfamily Macroglossina? or Carponycterinse, 

 which may be called Kiodotinae. This subfamily includes the 



* First published on plates of D'Orbigny' s 'Voyage dans 1'Amerique 

 meridionale,' which were distributed separately in 1836. In 1838 Gray 

 quoted the genus with a brief diagnosis, merely mentioning the species 

 by name. The specific name, however, dates from 1847, the year when 

 the text accompanying the plates appeared. 



f P. 71, foot-note, 1827. 



JCuvier's Animal Kingdom, 69 footnote, 1840; new ed., 69 footnote, 

 1849. The first edition not seen ; Mr. F. H. Waterhouse, Librarian of 

 the Zoological Society of London, has kindly verified the reference forme, 



