2. M0RM0P9. 45i5 



1. Mormops megalophylla. 



Mormops blainvillii, Peters (non Leach), Abhandl. Akad. Berl. 1856, 



p. 289, pi. i. figs. 1-5. 

 Mormops megalophyUa, Peters, 3IB. Akad. Berl. 1864, p. 381. 



Ears as broad as high, appearing to be placed far down on the 

 side of the head, owing to the great elevation of the crown of the 

 head above the face-line ; inner side of the posterior convex surface 

 of the ear-conch connected by a broad band (arising posteriorly from 

 the margin of the conch, and extending from the base of the ear 

 almost to the tip) with the upper surface of the muzzle, along which 

 it is attached, extending as far forwards as a point situated at a 

 short distance from the nostrils, where it ends in a small erect rounded 

 lobe, almost touching though not connected with the corresj)ond- 

 ing lobe of the opposite ear, appearing in this position like part of a 

 small nose-leaf; on the concave surface of the ear the inner margin 

 of the conch appears to commence by a rounded lobe, as in Vespe- 

 riujo ; the tip of the ear rounded off, not broad, the outer margin 

 straight, the upper half directed downwards and backwards, the 

 lower half almost horizontal, carried forwards to the angle of the 

 mouth, from which a lobe extends along the inferior surface of the 

 lower jaw, becoming connected in front with the foliaccous cuta- 

 neous lappets of the lower lip. The eye thus appears, as in Synotus, 

 to be contained within the ear-conch. Tragus expanded above, the 

 inner margin notched above the middle, the outer margin with a 

 corresponding but smaller notch, from the upper and outer part of 

 the front surface a rounded vertical process projects ; in front of the 

 base of the tragus, on the horizontal inner surface of the ear-conch, 

 a slightly raised ridge, directed forwards and outwards, the anti- 

 tragus, appears, and on the side of the face, below the eye and close 

 to the posterior commissure of the eyelids, a wart is placed (Plato 

 XXIII. fig. 5). 



The extremity of the muzzle is sharply cut and obliquely and 

 shortly truncated ; the nasal apertures circular, separated rather 

 widely, directed forwards and downwards, their upper margins pro- 

 jecting; between them a narrow vertical ridge, continuous above, 

 with a few small projections on the muzzle on each side above and 

 behind the sharp-edged nostrils ; the upper lip is notched opposite 

 the second upper premolar near the angle of the mouth ; the lower 

 jaw projects slightly beyond the upper one ; from the front surface 

 of the lower lip a cutaneous expansion hangs vertically downwards, 

 whereof the lower margin is divided by a vertical incision into two 

 lappets, and the front surface is covered with small but prominent 

 papillae ; these chin-lappets are connected on each side with a deep 

 cutaneous expansion arising from the sides of the lower lip, which 

 also hangs vertically downwards at the angles of the mouth, and in 

 front is folded upwards in the centre of each side, and their poste- 

 rior surfaces are connected by a single rounded lappet, which hangs 

 down behind the notch between them. Below and parallel to the 

 cutaneous expansion arising from the sides of the lower lip is a 



