Vol. XIX, pp. 41-48 February 26, 1906 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON /i? 



GENERAL NOTES. 



A NEW NAME FOR RHINOLOPHUS MINUTUS MILLER. 

 Rhinolophusminutus, the name which I proposed in 1900* for a bat from 

 the Anambas Islands, has recently been shown by Mr. Knud Andersen f 

 to be invalidated by Vetipertilio minutus Montagu, applied in 1 808 J to the 

 British race of Rhinolophus Jiipposideros. The Anambas animal may there- 

 fore be renamed as Rliinolojihus minntiUus. — Gerrit S. Miller, Jr. 



THE NOMENCLATURE OF THE FLYING-LEMURS. 



The flying-lemurs are currently known as GalenpitJiecwt, and the family 

 which they form as the GaleopUhecidx. Neither name can, however, be re- 

 tained, since Galeopithecus Pallas is twelve years antedated by Cynocephalus 

 Boddaert, based on the same animal. Boddaert's name must therefore be 

 adopted for the Malayan flying-lemurs, as its more familiar use for a genus 

 of baboons began nearly thirty years later. A like change in the family 

 name is fortunately obviated by the existence of a second genus containing 

 the Philippine membei's of the family, a group strikingly differentiated in 

 both cranial and dental characters. Chief among these characters are, 

 cranial : the less inflation of the mastoid region ; the greater separation of 

 the occipital condyles ; the narrower, more distinctly outlined brain-case ; 

 and the less broadened and otherwise modified postorbital processes ; den- 

 tal : the less specialized structure of the teeth, as shown by the relatively 

 slight distortion of the primitive trigones, those of the posterior lower pre- 

 uiolar and first and second lower molars retaining the typical arrangement 

 of the cusps almost unmodified ; the great lengthening and thickening of 

 the canines both above and below and of the outer upper incisor, and the 

 complete absence of serrations on the cutting edges of these teeth and of 

 the anterior upper and lower premolar. 



The family and its two genera should stand as follows : 



Family Colugid^. 

 Galeopithecidse Gray, 1821, and of most subsequent authors. 



Genus Colugo Gray. 

 1870. Colugo Gray, Catal. Monkeys, Lemurs, and Fruit-eating bats Brit. 



Mus., p. 98. Type Galeopithecus jjhilippinensis Waterhouse. 

 Genus Cynocephalus Boddaert. 

 1768. Cynocephalus Boddaert, Dierkundig Mengelwerk, II, p. 8. Type 



Cynocephalus volans from Ternate. 



1780. Galeopithecus Pallas, "Acta Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop., IV, p. 208." 

 ^ — Gerrit S. Miller, Jr. 



* Proc. Washington Acad. Sci., II, p, 235. August 20, 1900. 



t Proc. Zool. See. London, 1905, 11, p. 129. October 17, 1905. 



X Trans. Linn. Soc. London, IX, p. 162. 



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