736 CLASS xvii. 



approximate. Forehead with a rounded cavity. Ears moderate, 

 separate. Tail short, emerging by its free tip above the inter- 

 crural membrane. 



Sp. Taphozous mauritianus GEOFFR., GURIN Iconogr., Mammif. PL 9, fig. 

 i (fig. of head) ; Taphozous leucopterus TEMM. in V. D. HOEVEN Tijdschr. 

 v. p. 12, Tab. i, fig. 7, Monogr. n. PL 60, fig. 7 (see cranium in PETERS 

 1. 1. Tab. 13, figs. 20, 21); both from Africa. Other species are from 

 Asia, as Taph. longimanus HARDWICKE, Trans, of the Linn. Soc. ~s.iv. 1825, 

 p. 525, PL 17 ; Taphoz. saccolaimus TEMM. 1. 1. &c. 



Noctilio L. (Syst. nat. ed. xil, sp. of Vespertilio GM.) Inci- 



4 

 sor teeth ~ ; two middle upper elongate, acuminate, the lateral 



small, obtuse, deciduous, lower minute, bilobed; canines large; 



4 4 



molars = = . Snout short, with upper lip cloven. Ears mode- 

 o o 



rate, separate, lateral. Tail short, emergent by its apex above 

 the intercrural membrane. 



Sp. Noctilio leporinus, Vespertilio leporinus L. previously, Noctilio americanus 

 ejusd., Noctilio dorsatus GEOFFR., SCHREB. Saugth. Tab. 60, PR. MAXIM. 

 Abbild. Lief. IX, Beitr. zur Naturgesch. Brasil. II. s. 218 223, GUER. 

 Iconogr., Mammif. PL 7, fig. 5 (fig. of head, mouth, skull, teeth). Noctilio 

 unicolor PR. MAXIM, belongs, according to BURMEISTER, to the same, 

 species. These South American bats would seem, according to some, to 

 feed on fruits, which is not probable; the Prince of NEUWIED, too, has 

 found insects in the stomach of Noct. dorsatus. 



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Chilonycteris GRAY. Incisor teeth -r > molars -= ^ . Snout 



4 O ~ O 



truncate. Lower lip marginate. Ears narrow, erect, remote, with 

 tragus distinct. Tail placed above the ample intercrural membrane, 

 free at the apex. 



A genus unknown to me. Comp. GRAY in Annals of nat. Hist. iv. 1840, 

 p. 4, Proceed, of the Zool. Soc. 1843, P 2O > WAGNER Milnchn. A cad. 

 Abkandl. v. I. 



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Mormops LEACH. Incisor teeth -r , molars ^ . Ears large, 



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connate, with tragus lunate. Lower lip expanded, sinuous, furnished 

 anteriorly with a quadrangular, warty lamella. 



Genus from the West Indies unknown to me ; according to PETERS it 

 belongs to the following division (naso foliato). See PETEKS Ueb. die 

 Gattung Mormops, ArcUv filr Naturgesch. 1856, 22te Jahrgang, Bd. i. 



