Notes on the Nomenclature of the Chiroptera. ill 



and therefore remained anomen nudum until one year after the 

 appearance of Peters' description. If Gray has anywhere de- 

 scribed the species prior to I860, his name Quandira will of 

 course take precedence over Phylloderma. 



Lophostoma D'Orhigny, * is antedated at least nine years hy 

 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. V. bidens, however, is the type of Tonatia 

 Gray. 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. Geo£froy(in a MS. communication 

 to Dr. Leach) as a generic name to V. 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 

 Cirrhosus, 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 Oirrhosus and Soricinus, and the other under that of 

 Tonatia, including Bidens only."f 



PTEROPODIDvE. 



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

 well-known genera Macroglossus (or Qarponycteris), Qynonycteris 

 (or Xantharpyid), Harpyia, and Cephalotes. Macroglossus, preoc- 

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

 dekker. This latter name is antedated by Kiodotus, 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 Macroglossinse or Carponycterina?, 

 which may be called Kiodotinae. This subfamily includes the 



* First published on plates of D'Orbigny's 'Voyage dans l'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. 



fCuvier'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. 



