AUTUOE S PREFACE. 



Number of genera, species, ami subspecies. — The growth of our 

 knowledge of the existing forms of Megachiroptera, since Linnean 

 times, is shown in the subjoined table : — 



Genera. 



1758. Linno t . 



1810. E.Geoffroyt 2 . 



1825. Temiuinck{ 2 . 



1837. TemminckJ 5 . 



1867. Peters 1 9 . 



1870. Gray* 14 . 



1878, Dobson 10 . 



1899. Matsohie + 20 



1907. Millerl 30 



1912. This Catalogue 35 . 



Genera and 

 Subgenera. 



11 

 15 

 13 

 35 



38 



Species. Forms. 



1 



12 

 , 20 



37 



49 . 



57 . 

 . 70 

 . 120 



55 

 71 



180 



142 



228 



Of the 228 forms described in this Catalogue 207 (91 per cent.) 

 tire represented in the Collection, of the 35 genera 32 (91 per 

 cent.). The following twenty-one forms are at this moment 

 desiderata (the throe missing genera, all mouotypic, are marked 

 with an asterisk) : — 



rteropus /ii/j)omelanus geminontm, 

 p. 1C6. 



„ pallidus, p. 136. 



„ pwmilus, p. 757. 



,, ualanus, p. 177. 



„ mariantius, p. 178. 



„ va/iil-ore/isi^, p. 184. 

 "" „ aldahmisis, p. 213. 

 ■i; '„ tubcrculatus, p. 309. 

 _ J ,, vampj/rua plidon, p. 353. 



,, macrotU, p. 396. 

 Aexrodon lucifer, p. 432. 



* Plcroies andiiota, p. 486. 

 Epomoplorus pousarguesi, p. 543. 

 Myoiigoteris {I'hygetis) brachyce- 



■ph(da, p. 582. 

 Cynoplerus bracliyotis miuutus, 

 p. 625. 

 ,, vuij&r, p. 029. 



,, lyrinceps, p. (i33. 



* Pieuochincsjagori, p. 645. 



* Chironax melanocephalus, p. 660. 

 Syconycteris anstralis, p. 781. 

 Noiopieris neocaledonioa, p. 799. 



All forms, including those not represented iu the Collection, have 

 been examined by me. 



t All Chiroptera were iu the tenth edition of the ' Systeiua Natura; ' referred 

 to one genus, Vefperfilw. 



\ E. Geofiroy, ' Description des Roussettes et des Cephalotes, deux nouveaux 

 genres de la faiuille des Chauve-souris ' ; Ann. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Paris, xv. 

 pp. 86-108 (1810). 



Teraniinck, ' Monographies de Mainmalogie,' i. pp. 166-204 (1825). 



Temminck, vp. cit. ii. pp. 49-112 (1837). 



Peters, " Ueber die Flederlmnde, Ptcrop't, und insbesondere iiber die Arten 

 der Gattung Pterrpus s. s." ; MB. Ak. Bedin, 18G7, pp. 319-333, 86.>-872. 



Gray, 'Catalogue of the Monkeys, Lemurs, and Fruit-eating Bats in the 

 Collection of the British Museum' (1870). 



Matschie, ' Die Megachiroptera des Berliner Museums fiir Naturkunde ' 

 (1899). 



Miller, " The Families and Genera of Bats " ; U.S. National Museum, 

 Bulletin 57 (1907). 



