MAMMALIA. 739 



A tin. du Mus. XX. PI. i ; in Senegal, on the coast of Guinea. Megaderma 

 spasma, Vespertilio Spasma L., Megaderma trifolium, GEOFFB. ST-HILAIRB, 

 SCHREB. Saugth. Tab. 48; the head figured Ann. du Mus. xv. PI. 12; 

 Java. 



4 

 PJiyllostoma Cuv., GEOFFR. Incisor teeth j , small, lower very 



small, placed in front of canines, nearly contiguous at the base ; 



, 5-5 / 5-5 4-4\ 



canines large ; molars = -= [ more seldom ~ ~ , or -= = ) . 



O O \ U O O O/ 



Xose with double membrane, one erect, the other subhorizontal. 

 Ears moderate, distant, furnished with tragus small, elongate. Tail 

 mostly short, in some none. 



Compare GEOFFB. SAINT-HILAIBE Ann. du Mus. xv. pp. 163 187. 



Sp. Phyllostoma crenulatum GEOFFB. 1. 1. PI. 10, GUEBIN Iconogr., Mam- 

 mif. PL 8, fig. i ; with tail of which the extremity extends somewhat 

 beyond the membrane between the hind legs. Phyllostoma spectrum, Ves- 

 pertilio spectrum L., SCHBEB. Saugth. Tab. 45 (fig. from SEBA Thes.) with- 

 out tail ( Vampirus GEOFFB.) The sub-genus Arctibceus LEACH, Nyctiplanus 

 GEOFFB., is distinguished by the absence of a membrane between the hind 

 legs. 



These large bats live in South America. Their tongue is flat and elon- 

 gate. They live on insects, but suck also the blood of sleeping animals, 

 and, according to some, even of man. See PB. MAXIM. Beitr. z. Natur- 

 gesch. Bras. n. s. 175, 176, V. TSCHUDI Peru, Reiseslcizzen, n. s. 244, 245. 



4- fi fi 



Glossophaga GEOFFR. Incisor teeth ^ , molars ^ ^ . Snout 



elongate, thin. Ears moderate, distant, furnished with small 

 tragus. Nasal appendage double. Intercrural membrane mostly 

 small or none ; tail short or none. Tongue very long, extensile, 

 rough with reversed papillae. 



Compare GEOFFB. SAINT-HILAIBE Mem. du Mus. iv. pp. 411 418, 

 PL 17, 18; the species are from South America, like those of the preceding 

 very similar genus, but smaller. Sp. Glossophaga soricina, Vespertilio sori- 

 cinus PALL. Spic. Zool. in. Tab. 3, 4 (ScHBEB. Saugth. Tab. 47) ; Glos- 

 sophaga amplexicaudu GEOFFB. 1. 1. Tab. 18, fig. A, &c. 



Erachyphylla GRAY. 



Sp. Brachyphytta badia GBAT, Proceed, of the Zool. Soc. 1833, p. 123, Annals 

 of Nat. Hist. IV. p. 2, PI. i, fig. i; from the West Indies; a species un- 

 known to me. 



2 

 Desinodiis PR. MAXIM. Incisor teeth ^ , upper large, incurved 



(in younger 6 small), lower small, bifid; upper canines compressed; 



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