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gricanti-aneis dentibus validis, tarsis luteis (^). Long, corp, 

 lin. 1^. — Hab. King George's Sound. D. Dr. J. Hooker. 

 Mus. Westwood. 

 Sp. 8. Palmon melleus, Westw. Lat^ aurato-viridis, punctatis- 

 simus ; abdomine melleo ; antennis crassis, melleis, apice fuscis ; 

 pedibus melleis, coxis posticis, basi viridibus, spinisque femorum 

 posticorum nigris (c?)- Long. corp. fer^ lin. 2. — Hab. in ovis 

 Mantidis Brasilise. D. Klug. Mus. Westwood. 



Subgenus novum Pachytomus, Westw. 



Palmoni congruit nisi abdomine maris piano depresso-elongato, spi- 

 nis femorum posticorum tantum 4, articulo basali tarsorum omnium 

 dilatato, necnon oeconomid, habitanti in ficubus more Blastopha- 

 garum. 



Sp. 1. Pachytomus Klugianus, Westw. Cupreo-teneus, tenuissim^ 

 punctatissimus ; antennis basi tantum luteis ; abdomine piceo-fulvo 

 apice nigricanti ; pedibus 4 anticis pallide jlavescentibus, posticis 

 piceis, geniculis luteis. Long. corp. lin. 1^. — Hab. in ficubus 

 ^gypti. D. Klug. Mus. Westwood. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



ON THE GENUS SACCOPTERYX OF ILLIGER. 



ScHREBER, in his work on Mammalia, described and figured a bat 

 from Surinam under the name of Vespertilio lepturus, remarkable for 

 having on the end of the fore- arm-bone nearest the elbow a peculiar 

 sac. Illiger, from the description (for it does not appear that he ever 

 saw a specimen of the species), as was his habit, formed for this bat 

 a genus which he called Saccopteryx. GeofFroy, who had never seen 

 the species, referred it with doubt to his genus Taphozous, which is 

 peculiar to the old world ; and Temminck has followed him, and 

 appears to doubt the accuracy of Schreber's description and figure. 

 Among a most interesting collection of bats, birds and other animals 

 lately sent to the British Museum (collected in various parts of the 

 Brazils by the late Mr. Graham, who with his family was so dis- 

 tressingly lost at Para, just as he was returning home with his very 

 extensive collections and notes elucidating their habits), are two 

 specimens which exactly agree with Schreber's figure. The pouches 

 are about half an inch long, and are convex and bag-like on the lower 

 side of the fore-arm-bone, a short distance from the elbow-joint ; 

 they have a slit-like opening on the upper edge of the upper side of 

 the same bone about half an inch long, and the inner surface of the 

 bag is plaited, and appears to secrete an unctuous fluid. From the 

 side of the neck there is a rather thick band which extends to the 

 middle of the bag, and there is another lesser one from the other side 

 of the bag to the edge of the membrane on the front of the wing. 



I may observe that Saccopteryx is more nearly allied to Embalo- 

 nura than Taphozous, and that Cuvier (R^g. Anim. i. 121) considers 

 the existence of this bag in the wing as one of the characters of 

 Taphozous ; for he observes, " Un petit prolongement de la membrane 



