520 GALEOPITHECUS CHAP. 
consists of a Himalayan and Bornean, and of a Japanese species, 
which have not webbed feet, but have a tail with a fringe of 
elongated hairs. 
Nectogale elegans is one of the characteristic animals of the 
Thibetan placa It has webbed feet. The teeth are as in 
Chimarrogale 13 C4} Pm+ M3. 
The other sone are terrestrial in habit. 
SuB-OrRDER 2... DERMOPTERA. 
The family Galeopithecidae contains but one genus, which 
has been at times referred to the Lemurs, to the Bats, or has been 
Fic. 253.—Galeopithecus volans. x4. (After Vogt and Specht. ) 
made the type of a special order of mammals. It is better to 
regard it as an aberrant Insectivore—so different indeed from 
other forms that it requires a special sub-order for its reception. 
