50*2 A Revision of the Genera of Bats, 



habits New South Wales. (Major Macarthur.) United Service 

 Museum. 



40. Thyboptera, Spix. Ears large, close together, and folded 

 down over the forehead ; lips thick ; muzzle obliquely truncated ; 

 thumb thin, with a large rounded dilatation at the middle-joint ; 

 hind feet weak, small. 



Thyroptera tricolor, Spix, JBraz, t. 36, f. 1, evidently young. 

 Black-brown above, beneath pale-white ; wings and ears black. In- 

 habits Brazil. 



41. Myopteris, Geoff. Ears large, lateral ; muzzle short and 

 blunt ; cutting teeth, §, upper pointed, close together. 



Myopteris Daubentonii, Geoff, from Rat volant, Danbenton, 



Mem. Ac. Paris, 1759, 386. Inhabits N. America. Is it a Noctilio ? 



See also Nycticegus cynocephalus, Le Conte. 



* * * Tail very short, many-jointed, enclosed in a two-valved 



sheath, placed at the base of the extended interfemoral mem ■ 



brane. 



42. Diclidurus, Pr. Max. 



Diclidurus Freyreissii, Pr Max. Isis, 1819. D. albus, Pr. Max. 

 Abbild, t. Inhabits Brazils. Museum, Neuwied. Perhaps more 

 allied to Vespertilionina. 



Tribe V. — Pteropina. 



Grinders bluntly tubercular ; nose simple ; nostrils slightly pro- 

 duced ; end of index finger-clawed ; head conical ; ears simple, la- 

 teral ; tragus none ; Avings long ; lower joint of thumb long, united 

 to the wing by a membrane ; interfemoral membrane short ; tail 

 none, or short ; living on fruit in Indian islands and Polynesia. 



43. Ternate Bat, Pteropus. Head long, conical ; muzzle acute ; 

 grinders -f or | ; tongue short ; wings from the side of the body ; 

 tail none, or short. 



* Tail none ; ears large. 



Black Ternate Bat, Pteropus edulis, Pennt. Pt. Javanicus, 

 Desm. Temm. Mon. t. 15, f. 1. Pt. Edwardsii, Geoff. ? Vesp. 

 vampyrus, Linn. Vesp. Celaeno, Herm. Seba, t. 57, f- 2. Ternate 

 Bat, Pennt. Var. Pt. Edwardsii, Geoff. Inhabits Java, Sumatra, 

 Timor, Bengal ? 



Indian Ternate Bat, Pteropus medius, Temm. Inhabits India, 

 ( C alcutta,Pondicherry.) 



* * Tail none ; ears small. 



Pale-faced Ternate Bat, Pteropus phaiops, Temm. Inhabits 

 Madagascar. 



Grey-headed Ternate Bat, Pteropus poliocephalus, Temm. In- 

 habits New Holland. 



