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CHIROPTF.RA 



6. Swindon, Wiltshire. Rev. E. A. Goddard 8. 5. 12. 1. 



(c & p). 

 6. Caterille, Haute-Garonne, 0. Thomas (p). G. 4. 1. 7. 



1000 ra. France. 



{A. Robert.) 

 6, 9. Niesky, Silesia, 181 m. Ger- Dr. E. Hamilton (p). 97. 12. 4. 2-3. 



many. (W. Bacr.) 

 2 9. Niesky, Silesia. [W. Bacr.) Lord Lilford (p). 99.1.9.2,4. 



i. We mi ger ode, Saxony. Lord Lilford (p). 0.2.8.2. 



(WoUerstorff.) 



Sub-Family MINIOPTERINtE. 



1878. Minioptcri Dobson, Catal. Chiropt. Brit. Mus., p. 170 (part). 

 1907. Miniopterinx Miller, Families and Genera of Bats, p. 227, June 29, 

 1907. 



Geograj^hiral distrihution. — Africa, southern Europe and 

 southern Asia, eastward to the Malay region, Japan and 

 Australia. 



Characters. — Like the Vespertilioninae, but presternum with 

 median lobe enormously developed and forming the greater part 

 of the bone ; scapula with coracoid straight, directed con- 

 spicuously inward. 



BemarJcs. — The sub-family MiniopterhiBP, though widely dis- 

 tributed in the warmer portions of the Old World, is at present 

 known to contain the genus Minioidcrus only. 



Uenus MINIOPTERUS Bonaparte. 



1837. Miniopterus Bonaparte, Iconogr. Faun. Ital., i, fasc. xx, under 



Vcspcrtilio cmarginatns (Sub-genus of Ve^pertilio). 

 1857. Miniopterus Blasius, Siiugethiere Deutschlands, p. 45. 

 1860. Miniopteris Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3rd ser., xvii, p. 91, 



February, 1866. 

 1878. Miniopterus Dohson, Catal. Chiropt. Brit. I\Ius., p. 347. 

 1892. Minyoptcrus Winge, Jordfundne og nulevende Flagermus (Chiroptera) 



fra Lagoa Santa, Minas Geraes, Brasilien, p. 36. 

 1900. Minncoptcrus Lampe, Jahrb. Nassau Ver. Naturkundo, Jahrg. 53, 



Catal. Saugeth.-Samml., p. 12. 

 1907. Miniopterus Miller, Families and Genera of Bats, p. 227, June 29, 



1907. 



Tijjje sperU's. — Vcspertilio urshii Bonaparte = V. srlireihersii 

 Kuhi 



Geographical distribution. — Same as that of the sub-family. 



Characters. — Dental formula : i i^'f, c ^J, pm ^~, m t;' = 34. 

 Skull with unusually high brain-case, and low, flattened rostrum. 

 Second phalanx of third finger nearly three times as long as fii'st. 

 Ears short, separate, the upjjer margin (in European species) 

 appearing almost artificially truncate. 



Memarhs. — The peculiar shortening of the ears together with 

 the remarkable elongation of second phalan.x of thiid linger readily 



