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Mammals of Burma. 



[No. 1, 



Indian Museum, Calcutta, with N. cestonii, Savi, of Southern Europe, and 

 can find no difference whatever. That specimen was sent from Amoy by- 

 Mr. Swinhoe, and may therefore be safely assumed to be identical with 

 the specimen referred by him to N. ruppellii. — Gr.E.D.] 



[Mr. Elyth has followed the example of other Zoologists in placing 

 Rhinopoma next Megaderma. Although connected with Megaderma through 

 Nycteris, I believe that this genus is much more allied to Taphozous, and 

 should therefore be classed with the Noctilionida. — G.E.D.] * 



Sub-tribe Leptura. 



Bats with ample wings, which contract with double flexure ; the tail (when present) slender 

 and fixed in the interfemoral membrane. 



Fam. Megadermatidee. 

 20. Rhinopoma haedwickii (J. 30). 

 Ehinopoma hardwickii, Gray. 

 India, Indo-Chinese, and Malayan countries. 



p. 256. In this classification his fifth family, Brachyuua, comprises Mysticina, Noctilio 

 Taphozous, Emballonura, Biclidurus, and Furia; and his sixth family, MoLossi,is composed 

 of Molossus (seu Nyctinomus) and Cheiromeles. They seem to range better as two sub- 

 families of Noctilionidce, Cheiromeles having so much affinity with Taphozous. Prof. Peters 

 recognizes in all six families of Bats, which are named by him as follow:— 1. Pteropi = 

 Fteropodidce.—2. Megadermata = Megadermatidce (comprising Ehinopoma, Megaderma, 

 Nycteris, and Nyctophilus, all foreign to America).— 3. Khinolophi = Ehinolophidce (also 

 foreign to America).— 4. Vampyri = Vampyridce (with four subfamilies, exclusively 

 American).— 5. Brachyura.— 6. Molossi.— 7. Vespertiliones = Vespertilionidce (with 

 fourteen genera). In Bericht der Akademie zu Berlin, 1871, p. 301 et seq., the same 

 zoologist has supplied a monograph of the Ehinolophidce, in which he recognizes twenty-nine 

 species of Ehinolophus, twenty-four of Fhyllorhina, and as a third genus only one known 

 species, the Ccelops Frithii, nobis. 



* [I do not agree with the author in placing Rhinopoma in the same family with Mega- 

 derma. Ehinopoma is, in my opinion, closely related to Taphozous. Its connexion with 

 that genus is shown in the peculiar frontal depression, in the projecting muzzle and valvular 

 nostrils, in the weak and deciduous upper incisors, in the form and folding of the wing, in 

 the production of the tail beyond the interfemoral membrane, and even in the microscopical 

 structure of the hair. Further, the species of these genera show remarkable similarity in 

 their habits, and in them an enormous deposit of fat is heaped up about the root of the 

 tail immediately before the hybernating season. Similar deposits of fat have not been 

 observed by me in any other genera of Chiroptera.— G.E.D.] 



