410 



EMBALIONUKID^. 



3. Molossus brachymeles. 



Molossus (Molossops) brachymeles, Peters, MB. Akad. Berl. 1865, 



p. 675. 

 Molossus brachymeles, Dohson, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 708. 



Appears to difEer from the preceding species only in being con- 

 spicuously larger, in the different colour of the fur of the under sur- 

 face, and in its slightly different distribution. 



Fur, above, dark brown, the base of the hairs paler ; beneath, 

 reddish brown. The antebrachial membrane is covered with a small 

 patch of fur along the forearm ; and the wing-membrane between 

 the metacarpal bones of the last two fingers and the forearm. 

 Beneath, the fur of the body extends upon the wing-membrane 

 along the sides of the body only ; the remaining parts are quite 

 naked. 



Total length 4", head 0"-9, ear 0"-6, forearm l"-7, middle finger 

 3"-4, tibia 0"-5, foot 0"-46. 



Ifab. Peru. 



The above is taken from Prof. Peters's description of the only 

 specimen known, a stuffed skin, preserved in the Neuchatel Mu- 

 seum. 



Inc. 2, pm. juj; ears close together; tragus linear. 

 (Subgenus Molossus, Ptrs.) 



4. Molossus rufus. 



Molossus rufus, Geoffroy, Ann. du Mus. vi. (1805) p. 154 ; Peteis, 

 MB. Akad. Berl. 1865, p. 675 ; Bohson, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 709. 



Molossus lu-sinus, Spix, Simiar. et Ves^Jert. Brasil. (1823) p. 58, pi. 

 XXV. fig. 4 ; Peters, I. c. 1865, p. 588, pi. figs. 3, 3e (skull). 



Dysopes alecto, Temminck, Monogr. Mammal, i. p. 231. 



Dysopes holosericeus et albus, Natt. Wagner, Wiegm. Archiv, 1843, 

 p. 368 (vide Petms, MB. Akad. Berl. 1866, p. 22). 



Dysopes ursinus, Wagner, Svuppl. Sehreh. Sdugeth. v. p. 709 (1855). 



Ears much shorter than the head, their inner margins arising 

 close together, slightly in front of a line drawn between the eyes, 

 from a point on the forehead, from which a sharp ridge passes for- 

 wards on the face to the nose ; outer and inner margins of the ear- 

 conch convex, forming almost a regular semicircle ; antitragus cir- 

 cular, arising by a narrow base, from which it expands equally 

 anteriorly and posteriorly ; tragus minute, linear, acutely pointed ; 

 extremity of the muzzle obtuse, rounded, projecting beyond the lower 

 jaw ; the nasal apertures directed forwards and slightly outwards, 

 separated by a considerable interval (which is covered vpith short, 

 erect hairs dilated at their extremities) from the margin of the Up, 

 beyond which the extremity of the nose scarcely projects ; lips thick, 

 smooth, without wrinkles. 



In the male the opening of a large glandular sac directed forwards 

 is found opposite the anterior extremity of the sternum ; in the 

 female this sac is much smaller. 



