1898.] SYSTEM OF THE CHIEOPTERA. 59 



minor papers, has described the general anatomy oE the Oi'der, 

 with a complete systematic arrangement of all the known genera 

 and species, up to the year 1878. In more recent times Allen ^ has 

 done the same for the North- American Bats. Macalister '\ in an 

 able and comprehensive paper, has recorded the comparative 

 anatomy of the muscles of the group ; and Maisonneuve ^ has given 

 a complete account of the myology and osteology of Vesjpertilio 

 murinus. Eobin "' treats of the respiratory, digestive, and genito- 

 urinary organs of the Order ; and the embryological researches of 

 Van Beneden and Julin° on the formation of the amnion here 

 and in the Mammalia generally are well known. But with the 

 exception of Kdse \ who, in his paper " Beitrage zur vergleicheuden 

 Auatomie des Herzens der Wirbelthiere," incidentally refers to 

 the heart of Pteropus poliocephalus and Vespertilio { Mi/ofus) murinvs, 

 and HyrtP, who in 1864 described the arrangement of some of 



^ Allen, H.—" A Monograph of the Bats of N. America,'" Bull. U.S. Nat. 

 Museum, No. 43, Washington, 1893, 193 pp., 37 pis. See also Washingt. 

 Smiths. Inst. 1864, 8vo, 85 pp., woodcuts. Introduction to Monograph (1893), 

 in P. U.S. Mus. xvi. pp. 1-28. " On the Molars of Pteropine Bats," Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1892, pp. 172-173. " Colour-marks in the Pteropo- 

 didse," loc. cit. 1890, pp. 12-30. " Note on the Mammary Glands of Bats," 

 loc. cit. 1880, p. 133. " Note on the number of the Phalanges of Bats," loc. cit. 

 1880, p. 3.59. "On the Temporal and Masseter Muscles of Mammals," 

 loo. cit. 1*80, pp. 226-228. " On the Embryos of Bats," Contrib. Zool. Lab. 

 Pennsylvania, i. Art. 2, pis. v.-viii. " On a Eevision of the Ethmoid Bone in 

 the Mammalia, with special reference to the description of this bone and of 

 the sense of smell in the Chiroptera," Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard, x. 

 p. 13.5, and an earlier paper, loc. cit. No. 5, pp. 121-122. "On the Tarsus of 

 Bats," Am. Nat. xx. pp. 175-177. " Genus Nyctinomi'.s," P. Am. Phil. Soc. 

 xxvi. pp. 558-563. " Muscles of the Hind Limbs of Cheiromeles torquatiis," 

 Science, vii. p. 506. 



^ Macalister, A.— "The Myology of the Chiroptera," Phil. Trans. Eoy. Soc. 

 1872, pp. 125-171, pis. 13-16. 



3 Maisonneuve. — Theses presentees a la Faculty des Sciences de Poitiers. 

 Paris, 1878, 8vo, pp. 324. 



•* Robin, H. A. — " Recherches anatomiques sur les Mammiferes de I'Ordre 

 des Chiropteres," Ann. Sci. Nat. (6) xii. 1881, Art. 2, pp. 111-180, pis. ii.-ix., 

 & Rev. Sci. xxix. p. .507. See also " Sur la Morphologie les enveloppes fcetales 

 des Chiropteres," Oompt. Rend. scii. pp. 1354-1357, and " Sur les envel. feet, 

 des Chiropteres d. 1. famille des Phyllostoraides," loc. cit. xcv. p. 1377, and 



" Sur les envel. feet des Molossiens," supplementary to the second paper. 



Bull. Soc. Philomathique, Paris, (7) v. pp. 142-143. " Sur I'epoque de I'accouple- 

 ment des Chauves-souris," loc. cit. (7) v. pp. 88-90. "Anatomy of Cyno- 

 ni/cteris amplexicaudata," C. R. xc. pp. 13()9-1370. 

 ' ^ Beneden, E. Van, and Julin, 0. — " Recherches sur la formation des annexes 

 fcetales chez les Mammiferes (Lapin et Cheiropteres)," Arch. Biol. v. p. 369, pis. 

 Also " Observations sur le maturation, la fecondation, et la segmentation de 

 Toeuf chez les Cheiropteres," Arch. Biol. i. pp. 551-571, pis. xxii. k, xxiii., and 

 Bull. Acad. Roy. Belgique, xlix. pp. 628-655.— E. Van Beneden. " De la Fixa- 

 tion du Blastocysts a la Muqueuse uterine chez le Murin ( Vespertilio murinus)," 

 loc. cit. (3) XV. pp. 17-27. " De la formation et de la constitution du Placenta 

 chez le Murin," loc. cit. pp. 351-364. 



^ Rose, C— "Beitrage zur vergl." etc., Morph. Jahrb. 1890, xvi. pp. 27-96, 

 pis. iv. & V. 



' Hyrtl.— Denksch. Akad. der Wiss. Wien, 1864, xxii. p. 132 et seq., and 

 a note on the Radial Artery, transl. by E. P. Wright, in Nat. Hist. Rev. vol. ii. 

 1862, p. 95 et seq. 



