654 CHIROPTERA 



maxillse separate in front ; nostrils simple ; muzzle short ; index 

 finger without a claw ; tail short. Includes one species, having 

 the same distribution as Harpyia. The wing-membrane arises from 

 the middle line of the back, to which it is attached by a longitudinal 

 very thin process of the integument ; the wings are quite naked, 

 but the back covered by them is clothed with hair. 



Pteralopex. 1 External characters as in Pteropus ; ears short and 

 hairy; wings arising from the middle line of the back. Muzzle 

 very short ; plane of orbit directed more upwards than in Pteropus ; 

 orbit surrounded by bone ; sagittal crest strongly developed. Teeth 

 cuspidate ; upper incisors with broad posterior ledges ; upper 

 canine short and thick, with a stout secondary cusp in the middle 

 of the posterior border, and two smaller postero-internal basal 

 cusps; cheek-teeth short and broad, with their anterior and 

 posterior basal ledges so developed and the main cusps so nearly 

 conical as to obliterate the longitudinal grooving of Pteropus. 

 Lower incisors very disproportionate, the outer pair being nearly 

 twenty times the bulk of the inner ; lower canine stout, with a simple 

 posterior basal ledge. Represented by P. atrata of the Solomon 

 Islands. As already mentioned, Mr. Thomas regards the dentition 

 of this genus as the most generalised type found in the suborder. 



Subfamily Carponyetepiinse. Facial part of skull much pro- 

 duced ; molars narrow, and scarcely raised above the gum ; and 

 the tongue exceedingly long, attenuated in the anterior third, and 

 armed with long recurved papillae near the tip. 



Notopteris. 2 Dentition : i %, c \, p f , m |- ; total 28. Index 

 finger without a claw ; wings arising from the middle line of the 

 back ; tail long ; first upper premolar long, with ^two roots. The 

 single representative of the genus, N. macdonaldi, inhabits the Fiji 

 Islands, Aneiteum Island, and New Guinea. It is at once distin- 

 guished from all other Bats of this family by the length of its tail, 

 which is nearly as long as the forearm. 



Eonyderis? Dentition : i f , c \, p f , m f ; total 34. First upper 

 premolar small, with a single root. This genus is likewise repre- 

 sented by a single species (E. spelcea), from the Farm Caves, Moul- 

 mein, Burma, which has somewhat the appearance of Xantliarpyia ; 

 but the absence of a claw to the index finger and the characteristic 

 tongue and teeth at once distinguish it. 



Carponyderis 4 and Melonyderisf each with a single species, are 

 closely allied ; the index finger in both has a claw, and the number 

 of the teeth is the same as in Eonyderis. Carponyderis minima is 



1 0. Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. i. p. 155 (1888). 2 Gray, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, p. 36. 3 Dobson, Journ. As. .Soc. Bengal, vol. xlii. 



p. 204 (1873). 4 New name : Syn. Macroglossus, F. Cuvier, Dents des 



Mammiferes, p. 40 (1825). Preoccupied by Macroglossum, Scopoli, 1777. 

 5 Dobson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 119. 



