7'Aa \ii:iiAUH)U))iSUA. 



!>!). MEGALOGLOSSUS, r„./eu.^i. ,,, 



I."-)^."). iMenaltiulosMi?, I'dt/eyistecher, Zool. Aiiz. viii. 



lio. ]9.'J (" '2.1 Apr.''), p. 245 M. Avoeim;iiiiii. 



1 8!t 1 . Trvg'envctcvis, Lydcklxer, in Flower l^- Li/dekker, 



Mamm p. ti-')5 ]M. woerniiuiiii. 



-Megaloglossu?, Paymstecher, I. s. c. (" 27 Apr." 1885 : preliiuiuary 

 defter.) ; id., Jahrb. iviss. Anst. Hamb. ii. p. 126 (1885) ; I'/ioimi.-i, 

 P. Z. S. 1887, p. o24 (synopsis of Maero<^lossirie genera) ; Wiinji', 

 Ji Mus. Lvndii, ii. pt." 1, pp. 24, 27, 28, 56 (1892: nffiuitiui? ; 

 dental formula); Mittsc/iie, Meyachir. p. 101 (1899). 

 Trjg'enycleris, Lijdekkc?-, I. s. c. (1891 : intended to replace Me(/(ilo- 

 glossus, the latter said to be preoccupied by Meyaf/lussa, liondnni, 

 ^K,' ■ 1865, a genus of Diptera) ; Miller, Fam. ^- Gen. Bats, p. 7."J 

 (1907). 



Stimmarif of charcicters. — Tongue Macroglossine. Brain-case l(ss 

 detlected than \isiial in the subfamily ; prcmaxillaB stibequal in 

 breadth throughout (not nrnch broader above than below) and 

 solidly united anteriorly ; infraorlntal canal short. Incisors 

 i; — r; cheek-teeth ", sublinear; p^ (second upper check-tooth) 

 about throe times as high and between three and four times as long 

 (antero-posterioily) as p' ; lower incisors distinctly bilobed ; jjalute- 

 ridges seven. Index with claw ; lifth metacarpal much shorter 

 than third ; external tail reduced to a knob or quite ol)solete. 

 Forearm 40-43"o mm. [One species. Hah. W. Africa, from 

 Congo at least as far west as Liberia.] 



This is the only Macroglossine genus possessing the following 

 two characters combined, viz. external tail absent or obsolescent, 

 fifth metacarpal considerably shorter than third ^the latter character 

 is found only in one other genus of the subfamily, namely Eo- 

 nt/cteris, in which, however, the tail is well developed). Another 

 diagnostic combination is this : tongue Macroglossine, index clawed, 

 fifth metacarpal conspicuously shorter than third. Megaloylossiis 

 is the only Ethioj)ian lepresentative of the subfamily 3/rtf)-or/7ossi/i(f-. 



The skull of M<'gaJo(jhssiis may be distinguished from that of 

 any other Macroglossine genus by these three characters taken 

 together: infraorbital canal short; (foramen vertically below, or 

 even a little behind, front of orbit), p'^ much higher than p', pre- 

 maxillpe fused anteriorly ; the first character excludes all other 

 Macroglossine genera except Eoni/cteri.i and Si/conycteris, tin; 

 addition of the second excltides Syconijcteris (and is at the same 

 time a character by which Mer/aJogJossus, -without extraction of the 

 skull, may be distinguished at a glance from Mucroc/lossi's), and 

 that of the third Eonjiitris. 



8l-uU (fig. QS, r/.'lig. 71 B. ]>. 749).— In nearly all important 

 characters similar to that of Eont/derlx, but much more delicately 

 built, with thinner bones. liasicranial axis not much moie 

 detlected than in Eomjcteris, alveolar line if projected backward 

 passing a little above glenoid fossa. Itostrum relatively slightly 



