186 Mr. 0. Thomas on the Ge/ius CliiioJerma. 



Dr. Biiclmcr could have overlooked the marked differences 

 in the ]ialate and interparietal had they also been present in 

 liis species; so that I suppose S. concolor agrees with S. sub- 

 til is in these respects. 



As to the structure of the teeth, all the members of the genus 

 seem to have the small fifth cusp on ?!^, which is stated by 

 Dr. Biichncr not to be present in S. subtilis ; for in three 

 specimens of that species in the^Iuseum, from widely different 

 localities, I find it clearly visible, although smaller than in 

 S. Leathcmi. I presume, therefore, that Dr. Biichner had 

 under examination only specimens with worn dentition. 



Major Leathem is to be congratulated on his discovery of 

 this interesting little animal, the first representative of its 

 genus found within British Indian territory. 



XXVII. — Further Notes on the Genus Chiroderma. 

 By Oldfield Thomas. 



The following points with regard to the Chiropterous genus 

 Chiroderma have arisen out of the publication of Dr. H. 

 Winge's ' Bats of Lagoa Santa ' * and of Dr. H. Allen's 

 remarks on the genus in connexion with the description of 

 his Vampj/rops zarhinus f. 



In the first place, my own remarks on the genus itself seem 

 to have been unaccountably misunderstood by the latter 

 author, for, far from " claiming that Chiroderma is not 

 distinct horn Vampi/ raps j*^ I maintained, in the paper criticized 

 by him |, that it was a perfectly distinct genus, and gave it a 

 place in the synopsis of genera on p. 170, although at the 

 same time two species referred by Dr. Dobson to Chiroderma 

 were transferred to Vampyrops. ^or do I by any means 

 " acknowledge that the nasal cleft disappears in old indivi- 

 duals," as Peters's statement to this effect was not accepted in 

 my paper and was explained away in the last paragraph of 

 p. 169. 



One mistake in my paper, however, I should like to correct 

 more prominently than 1 have hitherto done, namely as to the 

 spelling of the new species there described. This should be 

 Vampyrops Caraccioli, instead of V. Caracciolce, the mistake 

 having been due to a misconception as to the nanve of the 

 discoverer, Mr. Caracciolo, whose proper name is now well 



• ' Jordfundne og' nulevende Flagermus fra Lagoa Santa, MinasGeraes 

 — E Mus. Lundii; 1892. 



t Proc. Ac. Philad. 1891, p. 400. 



t Ann. * Mag. Xat. Hist. (H) iv. p. ir.7 (1889). 



