and Description of New Genera and Species. 499 



pressed ; forehead with a large pit ; cutting-teeth, £ ; throat of 

 males with a transverse slit. Inhabits Old World. 



Taphozous perforatus, Geoff. Descript. Egypte, t. 3. f. 1. Diet. 

 Hist. Nat. t. T. Senegalensis, Geoff- (dry ?) from Lerot Volant, 

 Daubenton. Tail rather longly produced. Inhabits Africa, Egypt. 

 British Museum. 



Taphozous lepturus, Geoff. Saccopteryx lepturus, Illiger, from 

 Vesp. lepturus, Schreb. t. 57. Vesp. marsupialis, Midler, Naturf. 

 19. Said to come from Surinam ; scarcely appears to differ from 

 the former. 



Taphozous nudiventer, Ruppell. Atlas, t. 27- Inhabits Africa 

 (Nubia) Dr Ruppell. British Museum. 



Taphozous rufus, Harlan, from the Red bat, Wilson. (Am. Orn. 

 vi. t. 50. f. 4.) is a Scotophilia from the manner in which it bends 

 its tail, perhaps Scot, pruniosus. 



33. Noctilio, Linn. Celaeno, Leach. Head conical; forehead 

 flat ; muzzle acute warty ; lips dependent ; cutting-teeth, £ young, § 

 adult. America. 



The genus Celaeno of Leach is only a specimen in which the bones 

 of the tail have been withdrawn out of the skin. The original speci- 

 men is in the museum of the University College, London. 



Noctilio Americanus, Linn. N. unicolor, Pr. Max. Vesp. le~ 

 porinus, Linn., Schreb. t. 60. Seba, t. 55, f. 1. Peruvian Bat, 

 Penn. Inhabits South America. 



Noctilio mastivus. Vesp. mastivus, Vahl. Selsk. Skriv. iv. t. 

 132, f. 7- (1797.) Noctilio dorsatus, Pr. Max. Beitr. N. vittatus, 

 Pr. Max. Abbild. t. Pteropus leporinus, Erxleb. Jun. N. albiven- 

 ter, Spix, Braz. t. 36. f. 2. Desm. Mamm. Inhabits South Ame- 

 rica. British Museum. 



? Noctilio rufus, Spix, Brazil, t. 35, f. 1. Inhabits S. America. 



34. Proboscidea, Spix. Embalanura, Kuhl. Head long, conical ; 

 muzzle sharp, produced ; forehead flat ; upper jaw longest ; cutting- 

 teeth *j,' 2 . 



* Interfemoral membrane truncated. (Proboscidea, Spix.) 

 Proboscidea saxatilis, Spix, Braz. t. 35, f. 8, bad. Vesp. naso, 

 Pr. Max. Abbild. t. Embalonura saxatilis ? Temm. ? 

 Proboscidea rivalis, Spix, Braz. Inhabits Brazils. 

 Proboscidea canina. Vesp. caninus, Pr. Max. Abbild. t. Inha- 

 bits Brazils. 

 * * Interfemoral membrane produced conical ; heel-bone very long, 

 Centro nycteris. 

 Proboscidea calcarata. Vesp. calcaratus, Pr. Max. Abbild. t. 

 Vesp. Maximiliani, Fischer. Inhabits Brazils. 

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