rso 



.MA(ltiiUI.()5.SUS. 



Weaker than i'), cutting-edge simple; a wide spjico between i'-i' 

 and i,-i,. Upptr canines with a deep vertical groove on anterior 

 surface; lower canines slanted outward. Premolars and molars 

 narrow, linear (narrowest in thf eastern races of M. lar/ochilus): 

 p' relatively less reduced than in Eonycteris and lUcgaloglossus ; p', 

 p*, and P3 much lower than in those genera; p'-m' and P4-m^ with 

 slightly concave crushing surface and (except in p^) with scarcely 

 any trace of cusp-like elevation anteriorly ; m" and m^ similar in 

 length to, or very little shorter than, respectively m' and m^. 



Palate-r'uJyes (hg. 72 E). — Eight undivided, the five anterior 

 interdental, sixth and seventh postdental, eighth at palation border. 



15 



C 



Fig. 72.— Pulate-i-idgcs. A. Eonyderif. spelrea (0.8.2.1); B. Macroglosius 



luiiiinias suhrinus (79.11.15.(5); C. Megaloglosaus (coermaimi (\ 1.5.5 A). 



A f (linear), B and C f . 



Number and arrangement nearly unmodified Eonycterine (compare 

 E with A in fig. 72). The species and .subspecies do not differ in 

 the arrangement of the palate-ridges (but trivial individual 

 variations in the form of the ridges and length of the interspaces 

 occur in both species and any race). 



Kvtenial characters. — (jcner;il appearance and most characters 

 of importance as in MeijaJoijlossuJi. Khinarium in M. lagochilus 

 unmodified Megaloglossine, nares directed half outward and half 

 forward, and internarial groove C(jntinued downward to margin 

 of upper lip; in M. minimus nares directed much more outward 

 than forward, internarial groove shallower and not, or only indis- 

 tinctly, continued downward along middle of upper lip. External 

 tail rudimentary or absent, as in 31e(/aIor/lossics, but caudal vertebra? 

 reduced to three or two (five in Mecialo(jlos(ivs). iJembranes in- 

 serted as a rule on base of first plalanx of fourth (in Meijaloglossiis 

 second or third) toe, sometimes on interdigital membrane between 

 third and fourth, rarely on third toe (the two latter variations of 

 more frequent occurrence in the eastern races of M. lagochilus than 

 in the western race of the same species and in M. mini7nvs). 

 Vertical fasciae of mesopatagium as in Megaloglossus (8-14). 

 Metacarpals and phalanges differing as follows: — (1) in Megalo- 

 glossus the indices of the third, fourth, and fifth metacarpals are, 



