110 Palmer — Notes on the Nomenclature of the Chiroptera. 



proposed the term Noctilionidre based on another genus of the 

 same family, and this name having priority of more than half a 

 century should he adopted instead of Emballonuridse. 



The genus Saccopteryx, according to Dobson, contains 4 sub- 

 genera, one of winch. Centronycteris, was based on Vespertilio 

 calcaratus from Brazil. This species was named by Wied in 

 1821 * but is preoccupied b}^ Vespertilio calcaratus Rafinesquef 

 described in 1818, a North American species belonging to an- 

 other family. Since the Brazilian bat now known as Saccopteryx 

 calcarata does not seem to have received any other specific name, 

 it may be called Saccopteryx wiedi in honor of its discoverer, 

 Maximilian, Prince of Wied. 



MEGADERMATID/E (Nycteikbe). 



The family Nycterida 1 , also named by Dobson in 1875, contains 

 but two genera, Megaderma and Nycteris, each the type of a dis- 

 tinct subfamily. Harrison Allen published the name Megader- 

 matidse in 1864 J; Peters used the term Megadermata as early 

 as 1865, and Gill adopted it in a modified form Megadermidse, 

 in 1872. Although Harrison Allen merely used the name inci- 

 dentally for a genus which is now known to belong to another 

 group, there can be no doubt as to the genus on which it was 

 based. Consequently there seems to be no reason why Megader- 

 matidse should not be adopted for the family, since it has 11 

 years' priority over Nycterida^. 



PHYLLOSTOMATIDiE. 



Several changes in current generic names of leaf-nosed bats are 

 also necessary. Anoura Gray, 1838, should replace Glossonycteris 

 Peters. 1868, as recently shown by Thomas and Trouessart; Phyl- 

 loderma may be antedated by Guandira; and Lophostoma must 

 give way to Tonatia. The Cayenne Bat, called Phylloderma stenops 

 by Peters in 1865, § was previously named Guandira cayanensis 

 by Gray in 1843, but apparently was not described until 1866 || 



*Schinz, Das Thierreich, I, p. 180, 1821. 

 t Am. Monthly Mag., Ill, p. 445, Oct., 1818. 

 JMon. Bats North Am., p. XXIII, L864. 

 § Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., Berlin, p. 513, 1865. 

 || List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mas., p. 194, 1843; Proa Zool. Sac. London, 

 1866, p. 114. 



