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CHIEOPTERA 



i. Swindon, Wiltshire. Eev. E. A. Goddard 8. 5. 12. 1. 



•(c &p). 

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



1000 m. France. 



(A. Robert.) 

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



many. (W. Baer.) 

 2 9, Niesky, Silesia. {W. Bacr.) Lord Lilford (p). 99. 1. 9. 2, 4. 



S. W e r n i ger od e, Saxony. Lord Lilford (p). 0.2.8.2. 



{Walter storff.) 



Sub-Family MINIOPTERINiE. 



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

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

 1907. 



Geographical distrihution. — Africa, southern Europe and 

 southern Asia, eastward to the Malay region, Japan and 

 AustraHa. 



Characters. — Like the Vespertilioninse, but presternum with 

 median lobe enormously developed and forming the greater part 

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

 spicuously inward. 



HemarJcs. — The sub-family Miniopterinse , though widely dis- 

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

 known to contain the genus Mmiopterus only. 



Genus MINIOPTERUS Bonaparte. 



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



Vespertilio emarginatus (Sub-genus of Ves2:)crtilio). 

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

 1866. Miniopteris Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3rd ser., xvii, p. 91, 



February, 1866. 

 1878. Miniopteriis Dobson, Catal. Chiropt. Brit. ]Mus., p. 347. 

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



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

 1900. Minneopterus Lampe, Jahrb. Nassau Ver. Naturkunde, Jahrg. 53, 



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

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



1907. 



Type species. — Vespertilio ursinii Bonaparte = V. schreihersii 

 Kuhl. 



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



Characters. — Dental formula : i 'j0,, c ^^, pm ||, m [^j = 34. 

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

 Second phalanx of third finger nearly three times as long as first. 

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

 appearing almost artificially truncate. 



Bemarhs. — The peculiar shortening of the ears together with 

 the remarkable elongation of second phalanx of third finger leadily 



