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f;ir as the anterior border of the first molar. The second plate is con- 

 cealed, and the third and fourth arc arranged much as in Vampyrops, 

 which this form in great ])'MCt resembles. The lobule on the first endo- 

 turbinal is small, but readily discernible. The plates below their in- 

 flated summits arc not clearly seen. The parts on the median surface 

 are contiguous. 



Vai)ip>/roj:)s. — The ectoturbinal extends the entire length of tbe inner 

 wall of the orbit, and is inflated. The first endoturbinal is concealed 

 between the last named and the second endoturbinal. It is a simple 

 inflated plate, without convolutions. It is in intimate association with 

 the region of the second plate, with which it may be confounded. If 

 the first endoturbinal plate be counted as a lobule upon the base of the 

 second, the series will lack the number five which all other genera of 

 tins group possess. Assuming, therefore, that the concealed plate is the 

 true second endoturbinal, the one below it becomes the third. The last- 

 named third plate is the largest of the series, and resembles the second 

 of the Fteroderma related forms. It is broad, non-convolute, and ends in 

 a narrow tongue that reaches a point as far forward as the anterior bor- 

 der of the first molar tooth. The fourth endoturbinal is a nearly simple 

 ])late, having a thickened free upper border. Its free surface is entirely 

 median, and almost linear. The fifth endoturbinal is exposed on the 

 median surface for its entire extent; its anterior border is thickened, and 

 convolute upwards. The frontal sectiou of the ethmoturbinal presents 

 the ectoturbinal and the first endoturbinal in close juxtaposition and as- 

 suming a medio-lateral relation, while the remaining plates are arranged 

 nearly at right angles to them. There apjjear to be no plates compara- 

 ble to the sphenoturbinals. 



Fteroderma (Plate V. fig. G). — The ectoturbinal of a triangular form, 

 whose base is forward and advances as far as the ends of the olfactory 

 plates of the eudoturbinals minus the lobules, and nearly to the hinder 

 border of the orifice of the maxillary siuus. 



The first endoturbinal is convolute laterally, and possesses an acu- 

 minate lobe directed forward that equals the plate itself in length. The 

 free end of the olfactory plate is distiuctly seen beneath the level of the 

 lobe. Lying at the level of the lobe just described, behind the free por- 

 tion of the plate, is a small nodule, which may receive the name of tlie 

 posterior lobe, as opposed to the preceding, which is as compared to this 

 an anterior lobe. The second endoturbinal plate is free inferiorly, but is 

 bicouvolute above for the greater part of its length. The last-named 

 portions arc concealed by the lobes of the adjacent plates. The third 



