114 PTEROPID.U. 



a. Face very long, slender. Cutting-teeth isolated, in an arched series. 



Grinders much compressed. 



a. Wings from middle of the back. Tail elongate. 



4. NOTOPTERIS. 



Head elongate. Muzzle produced, Bubcylindrical. Noso simple. 

 Mullle narrow, bald between tho nostrils, with a deep central notch. 

 Ears small, lateral. Body covered with short crisp hair. Wings 

 broad, short, arising from the middle of tho back. Side edgo arched, 

 in towards the middle of tho back. Middle of the back bald ; 

 shouldors and rump hairy. Thumb elongate ; lower joint half the 

 length of the upper, and enclosed in a narrow membrane. Index 

 finger of three bony joints ; the last joint short, clawed. Interfe- 

 moral membrane deeply cut out, margining the hind legs to the heel, 

 hairy above and on tho undersido near the body, bald at other part. 

 Tail elongate, slender, tapering, many-jointed, arising from, and 

 with tho base attached to, the undersido of tho narrow interfemoral 

 membrane, as long as the hind legs. 



Notopteris, Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 30, t. 07. 



Notopteris Macdonaldii. B. M. 



Dusky brown, rather paler beneath. 



Notopteris Macdonaldii, Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 38, pi. 07; Ann. # 

 Mag. N. II. 1859, iv. p. 309. 



Hah. Feejeo Islands (Viti). 



Skull elongate ; the upper cutting-toeth small, far apart ; inter- 

 maxillary bones arched, produced on each sido ; tho lower larger, 

 near the base of the canines ; canines long, compressed, trihe- 

 dral ; grinders small, much compressed, elongate, narrow, form- 

 ing a continued series, the hinder one in each jaw oblong, of the same 

 shape but rather smaller than tho penultimate ; false grinders \ ; 

 the lower jaw very slender, wide behind, the branches regularly 

 diverging. Skull somewhat like that of Macroglossus (see Blainv. 

 Os. Cheir. t. 6) ; but it has an additional compressed false grinder in 

 each j aw. 



b. Wings from sides. Tail very short. 



5. MACROGLOSSUS. 



Head elongate. Muzzle slender, conical. Tongue exsertile, smooth, 

 elongate Ears conical, prominent. Wings from tho sides of tin; 

 back, attached on the back of the feet to the base of tho toes. Lower 

 joints of the thumb elongate, enclosed in a broad membrane ; upper 

 longer. Tail scarcely visible, very short. Back, upperside of arms 

 and legs, and interfemoral membrane hairy. 



Macroglossus, F. Cuv. Macroglossa, Lesson ; Fischer. 



Skull elongate ; *faco much elongated, very slender ; lower jaw- 

 bone weak. Grinders ■£, small, compressed. Cutting-teeth J. 

 False grinders {, compressed. Canines slender. 



