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CHIKOPTERA 



S. Swindon, Wiltshire. Rev. E. A. Goddard 8. 5. 12. 1. 



(c & p). 

 <5. Caterille, Haute-Garonne, 0. Thomas (p). 6. 4. 1. 7. 



1000 m. France. 



(A. Robert.) 

 $, ?. Niesky, Silesia, 181 m. Ger- Dr. E. Hamilton (p). 9Y. 12. 4. 2-3. 



many. (W. Baer.) 

 2 ?. Niesky, Silesia. (W. Baer.) Lord Lilford (p). 99. 1. 9. 2, 4. 



S. Wernigerode, Saxony. Lord Lilford (p) . 0. 2. 8. 2. 



(Wolterstorff.) 



Sub-Family MINIOPTERINiE. 



1878. Miniopteri Dobson, Catal. Chiropt. Brit. Mus., p. 170 (part). 

 1907. Miniopterinie Miller, Families and Genera of Bats, p. 227, June 29, 

 1907. 



Geographical distribution. — Africa, southern Europe and 

 southern Asia, eastward to the Malay region, Japan and 

 Australia. 



Characters. — Like the Vespertilioninse, but presternum with 

 median lobe enormously developed and forming the greater part 

 of the bone ; scapula with coracoid straight, directed con- 

 spicuously inward. 



BemarJes. — The sub-family Miniopterinx, though widely dis- 

 tributed in the warmer portions of the Old World, is at present 

 known to contain the genus Miniopterus only. 



Genus MINIOPTERUS Bonaparte. 



1837. Miniopterus Bonaparte, Ioonogr. Faun. Ital., i, faso. xx, under 



Vespertilio emarginatus (Sub-genus of Vespertilio). 

 1857. Miniopterus Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 45. 

 1866. Miniopteris Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3rd ser., xm, p. 91, 



February, 1866. 

 1878. Miniopterus Dobson, Gatal. Chiropt. Brit. Mus., p. 347. 

 1892. Minyopterus Winge, Jordf undne og nulevende Flagermus (Chiroptera) 



fra Lagoa Santa, Minas Geraes, Brasilien, p. 36. 

 1900. Minneopterus Lampe, Jahrb. Nassau Ver. Naturkunde, Jahrg. 53, 



Catal. Saugeth.-Samml., p. 12. 

 1907. Miniopterus Miller, Families and Genera of Bats, p. 227, June 29, 



1907. 



Type species. — Vespertilio ursinii Bonaparte = V. schreibersii 

 Kuhl. 



Geographical distribution. — Same as that of the sub-family. 

 Characters. — Cental formula : i H, c \^, vm |4 m t? = 34. 



.i-3 1—1 ■*■ 3— .J 3—3 



Skull with unusually high brain-case, and low, flattened rostrum. 

 Second phalanx of third finger nearly three times as long as first. 

 Ears short, separate, the upper margin (in European species) 

 appearing almost artificially truncate. 



Remarks. — The peculiar shortening of the ears together with 

 the remarkable elongation of second phalanx of third finger readily 



