170 EEPORT— 1880. 



To enumerate, classify, and correct these contributions ; to add some 

 remarks, supply a few omissions, and correct one or two errors since 

 discovered in tlie work refei'red to above, is tlie object of this paper. 



I commence by re-defining the suborders into which I have divided 

 the Chiroptera, adding some important characters previously omitted. 



Suborder I.— MBGACHIROPTERA. 



Crowns of the molar teeth smooth, marked with a longitudinal furrow ; 

 bony palate continued behind the last molar, narrowing gradually back- 

 wards ; trapezium large, deeply grooved for articulation with the trochlear 

 base of the first metacar^ial bone ; second finger with three phalanges, 

 generally terminating in a claw ; sides of the ear-conch united below, 

 forming a complete ring at the base ; pyloric extremity of the stomach 

 elongated ; spigelian lobe of the liver ill- defined or absent. 



Suborder II.— MICROCHIROPTBRA. 



Crowns of the molar teeth acutely tubercular, marked with transverse 

 furrows ; ' bony palate narrowing abruptly, not continued laterally behind 

 the last molar ; trapezium small, forming a simple articulation with the 

 concave base of the first metacarpal bone ; second finger with a single 

 rudimentary phalanx, rarely (in Blmiopoma only) with two, not termi- 

 nating in a claw ; stomach simple or with the cardiac extremity more or 

 less elongated ; spigelian lobe of the liver well developed. 



Suborder I.— MBGACHIROPTERA. 



Family — PTEROPODiDiE. 

 Epomophorus monstrosus, Allen. ^ 



In the Paris Museum I found a specimen of this species from Ogone, 

 collected by M. Marche, which had previously been unknown south of the 

 equator. 



Epomcyphorus minor. 



Ejwmojilwrug minor, Dobson, 'P.Z.S.' 1879, \i. 715. 



This small species should come next after E. macrocephalus, which 

 stands second in the list of species in the ' Catal. Chiropt. Br. Mus.' It is 

 scarcely more than half the size of that species, but resembles it in the form 

 and arrangement of the palate ridges. The head is, however, proportionally 

 much shorter and broader, and in comparative measurements the female 

 differs less from the male, as I have shown in the original description. 

 These remarks are founded on an examination of five well-preserved adult 

 specimens which I owe to the kindness of Dr. Robb, H.M. Indian Army, 

 Civil Surgeon of Zanzibar, and the following are the raeasurements of 

 the largest, a perfectly adult male : — 



Length: head and body 4" '0 inches, head 1"'65 (in adult female 1"'55) ; 

 eye from tip of nostril 0"'65 (in adult female 0"'55), ear 0"'72, forearm 



' In the Stcnodermata, which are frugivorous or sanguinivorous in their habits, 

 this character is not well developed, but the fundamental form of the teeth is the 

 same as in other ^licrookirojrtera. 



^ All species referred to in this paper, and of which descriptions may be found 

 in my work on the Chiroptera, are simply named ; other species since described have 

 the place of publication of the original description indicated. 



