80 BULLETIN 57, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Canine teeth not shearlike or specially modified; mo- 

 lars well developed, with at least some trace of 

 crushing surface. 

 Toes (except hallux) with three phalanges each; 

 thumb and foot without sucking disk, 



Phyllostomid^se, p. 116. 

 Toes with two phalanges each; thumb and foot 

 with sucking disk. 



Tragus free ; no mushroom-shaped process in 

 auditory meatus ; second finger reduced to 

 an incomplete metacarpal ; sucking disks 



pedicillate Thybopterid^e, p. 190. 



Tragus adnate to ear conch ; a conspicuous 

 mushroom-shaped process in auditory mea- 

 tus ; second finger with well-developed meta- 

 carpal ; sucking disks sessile, 



Myzopodim:, p. 193. 

 Family RHINOPOMID2E. 



1821. Vespertttionidw (part; Race 1, part) Gray, London Medical Reposi- 

 tory, XV, p. 299, April 1, 1821. 



1827. "Les Phyllostomes " Lesson, Man. de Mammalogie, p. 76 (part). 



1831. Vespertiliones (Vespertilionida?) (part; Phylloslomina, part) Bona- 

 parte, Saggio di una distrib. metodica degli Anim. Vert., p. 15. 



1838. Tespertilionidas (part; Rhinopomina) Bonaparte, Nuovi Annali delle 

 Scienze Naturali, Bologna, Anno I, Tomo II, p. 112. 



1838. Vespertilionidm (part; Phyllostomina, part) Gray, Mag. Zool. and 

 Bot, II, p. 486, December, 1838. 



1854. [RhinolopMdw] " Rhinolophides " Gervais, Histoire Xaturelle des 

 Mamrniferes, p. 200 (part). 



1865. Megadermata Peters, Monatsber. k. preuss. Akad. Wissensch., Berlin, 

 p. 256 (part). 



1866. Rhinolophidm (part; RhinOpomina) Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 

 81. 



1872. Bhinopomatida; Dobson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, XLI, Pt. 2. p. 221. 

 1875. Emballonuridm- (part; Rhinopomata) Dobson, Ann. and Mag. Nat. 



Hist, 4th ser., XVI, p. 349, November, 1875. 

 1878. Emballonuridm (part; Rhinopomata) Dobson, Catal. Chiropt. Brit. 



Mus., p. 353. 

 1886. EmballonuridcB (part; Rhinopomata) Gill, Standard Natural History, 



V, p. 169. 

 ■1891. Emballonurida: (part) ; Emballonurinw, part, Rhinopomatine division) 



FLOWEr. and Lydekker, Mammals living and extinct, p. 666. 

 1892. Emballonuridm (part; Rhinopomatini) Winge, Jordfundne og nule- 



vende Plagermus (Chiroptera) fra Lagoa Santa, Minas Geraes, Bra- 

 , silien, p. 24. 



Geographic distribution.— From Egypt through southern Asia to 

 Burma and Sumatra. 



Characters. — Humerus with trochiter well developed though not 

 as large as trochin, not articulating with scapula, neither tubercle 

 rising above head; epitrochlea not specially developed (about as in 

 PteropidEe) , capitellum nearly in line with shaft; second manal digit 



