742 CLASS XVII. 



Sp. Harpyia Pallasii Temm., Vespertilio cephalotes Pall., Spic. Zool. iii. 

 Tab. I. II., 'BvYY.Suppl. III. PI. 52, Temm. Monogr.u. PI. 40; Amboyna; 

 a rare species, of which a few specimens alone have been brought to 

 Europe. The intermaxillary bones are perfect, whilst Hypoderma, with 

 which this genus was formerly united, presents traces of them only, con- 

 nected by cartilage. The wings, when expanded, are full 14 inches broad. 



Oeder X. Ptenopleura s. Dermoptera. 



Incisor teeth and molars ; true canines none, their place teing 

 occupied by false molars, with root double, crown elongate, com- 

 pressed. Feet pentadactylous, with fore toes not elongate, all 

 unguiculate. Body surrounded by a hairy lateral membrane, ex- 

 panded from the nape to the hands, and from the hands to the 

 soles, connecting the hind feet, and produced behind the feet in 

 form of a triangle as far as to the tip of the tail. 



This small order contains a single genus only. From the preceding 

 order it is very distinct, but more nearly connected with some insectivores, 

 and most nearly of all with the first family of the succeeding order, with 

 which it might be united, in case it should not be regarded as a distinct 

 order. These animals have a large ccecum. 



Family XLIII. Galeopiilieci. (Characters of the order.) 



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Galeopithecus Pall. Incisor teeth j , two upper on both sides 



placed at the sides of the intermaxillary bone, compressed, with 

 crown acute, separate by a wide vacant space in front, lower 



procumbent, with crown incised like a comb. Canines -z — z^ , molars 



6-6 4-4. 



^ — -7 , true 2^ — 2 ' with crown cuspidate. (Dent. form. Owen, 



. 2-2 1-1 2-2 3-3 ^,, 



'' 3^^' "• T^V P- 2^' ^•3^=^^-) 



Sp. Galeopithecus variegatus Geoffe., Lemur volans L., Galeopithecus volans 

 Pallas, .4 c«. Acad. Petrop. 1 780, i. p. 208, Tab. 8, Guebin Iconogr., Mamm. 

 PI. 9, fig. 4 (4 a the skull, 4 b the lower incisors) ; the skeleton is figured 

 in D'Alton Die Skelete der Chiropteren u. Jnsectivoren, Tab. I. In Java, 



^ "The third incisor, viewed through the analogy of the Lemurs, seems to be a 

 canine, but in nature its crown is in advance of the last intermaxillary tooth above," 

 &c. Owen Odont. p. 431. 



