and Species of Mammalia. 259 



bone elongate ; feet attached, the wing united to the whole length 

 of the outer toes of each foot. Cutting teeth -£, small. 

 M. suillus, Vespertilio suillus, Temm. 

 From India, Dargellan. Brit. Mus. 



Harpiocephaltjs, n. g. 



Head rounded ; face short, rather naked, glandular ; ears moderate ; 

 wings broad, thin ; feet free to the ankles, hairy to the claws ; toes 

 thick. 

 H. rufus, Vesp. Harpia, Temm. 



Centurio, n. g. 



Head rather large ; face naked, flattened and covered with va- 

 rious symmetrical plaits; nostrils separate, placed on each side 

 of a triangular subcordate plate with raised edges on the side 

 and behind, but without any edge below ; ears large, with a large 

 separate oblique fold at the base of the upper edge of the conch, 

 a conical erect lobule, and short denticulated tragus ; limbs strong ; 

 interfemoral membranes deeply cut in ; the heel-bone is short and 

 strong ; the toes of the hind feet are equal ; tail none ; wings broad, 

 the membrane between the two inner fingers, and the hinder fin- 

 ger and the fore-arm-bone with regular parallel transverse fibres 

 contracting the membrane into fine regular close plaits ; the thumb 

 elongate, slender. Cutting teeth l ** 4 lI f small, upper conical far 

 apart, lower close, truncated ; canines large ; grinder large, with 

 very acute conical tubercles ; lips ciliated within at the angle of the 

 mouth ; fur soft, brown ; the nostril with a high convex ovate tuber- 

 cle between them, ending above and below in a slight acute tip, each 

 surrounded on the outer side by a half ovate raised edge, bent in to- 

 wards the tubercles at the tip, and bent outwards on the edge of the 

 lip, having two tubercles on the upper part of the outer edge, each fur- 

 nished with a single bristle, and giving off a slightly curved process on 

 the middle of the upper edge, ending in a small tubercle bearing a 

 similar bristle ; the eyes are surrounded with a raised edge, with 

 two or three similar bristles bearing tubercles ; the ridge from the 

 upper edge of the eyelid extends towards the middle of the face, 

 and is then sharply turned up at an angle before it reaches the cen- 

 tral line, and after a short space bent round at the top towards the 

 outer edge of the front of the lunate cross ridges on the forehead ; 

 behind the larger upper cross ridge on the forehead is a slight cross 

 groove with a swollen hinder edge. 



The upper edge of these ridges and the tip of the lobule ©f the 

 ear is dark brown and callous ; the chin projects beyond the mouth 

 and is keeled below ; the cheek, chin and throat are covered with va- 

 rious symmetrical wrinkles, and on the middle of the chin is a rather 

 broad, and on the top of the ridge on each side of the chin is a nar- 

 row, horny callous plate. 



Centurio senex, the Wrinkled-faced Epaulet Bat. Pale brown ; tip 

 of the hairs whitish, beneath paler, small epaulet-like tuft on each 



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