346 On the Classification of the Oeneraof Chiroptera. 



Graij (ISnO). 



Distributed between 

 the families Hhinolo- 

 phid(e and Vespertilio- 

 nidce. 



Fam. Noctilionidae, 



Gen. Mystacina. 

 Noetilio. 

 Mormops. 

 Phyllodia. 

 Chilonycteris. 

 Pteronotus. 

 Spectrellum. 

 Myopteris. 

 Nyctiuomus. 

 Subg. Tadarida. 

 Gen. Molossus. 

 Subg. Mormopterus. 

 Promops. 

 Gen. Cheirouieles. 



Dohson (1875). 

 Fam. Nycteridae. 



i Gen. Megaderma. 

 I Nycteris. 



Fam. EmballontiridaB. 



Gen. Mystacina. 

 Noetilio. 

 Tapbozous. 

 Emballonura. 

 Saccopteryx. 



(Peropteryx, 



Cormm-a, 



Balantiopteryx.) 

 Rhyncbonycteria, 



(Centronycteris.) 

 Coleura. 

 Diclidurus. 

 Furia. 



Nyctinomus. 

 Mormopterus. 

 Molossus. 

 Cbeiromeles. 

 Rhinopoma. 



Peters (ISGo-lSOT). 



Fam. Megadermata. 



Gen. Rhinopoma. ] 



Megaderma. ( 



Nycteris. [ 



Nyctopbilus. ) 



Fam. Brach3rura. 



Gen. Mystacina. 

 Noetilio. 

 Tapbozous. 

 Emballonura. 

 Saccopterj-x. 

 Peropteryx. 

 Cormin"a. 

 Balantiopteryx, 

 Rhyncbonycteris. 

 Centronycteris. 

 Coleura. 

 Diclidurus. 

 Furia. 



Fam. Molossi. 



Gen. Nvctinomus. 

 Subg. Mormopterus. 



Gen. Molossus. 

 Subg. Promops : Mo- 

 lossops. 



Gen. Chiromeles. 



It will be seen that the family Nycteridce contains two only 

 of the four genera included under Megadermata, Peters, a 

 term, however, previously used by Wagner* to denote one 

 of the subfamilies into which he divided his family Istiophoi-a, 

 and which also included Macrotus, a genus of PhyllostomidcB 

 from Central America. I have therefore thought it better to 

 drop the name Megadermata altogether than by retaining it to 

 add to the confusion previously existing. 



Comparison of the genera of the other families shows that 

 (with the exception oi lihinopoma) the genera oi Emhalloauridce 

 exactly correspond to those included in the two families Bra- 

 chynra and Molossi, Peters, while of the eleven genera con- 

 tained in Noctiliomdce , Gray, five only are found among the 

 fourteen which make up the family Emhallonuridce, the 

 remaining seven being partly referable to the Phyllostomidce, 

 partly to Vespertilionidce f. 



• Suppl. Scbreber, S.iugeth. y. p. 639 (1^56). 



t Seven of the genera included by me in the Emhallonnridce were pre- 

 Tioush" classed by Dr. Gray among the VespertiUonid^. 



