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CLASS MAMMALIA. 



sidered in some instances as open to doubt. Among these may be 

 mentioned V. murinoides, from the Middle Miocene of France, and 

 V. precox and V. insignts, from the Lower Miocene of Germany. 

 A Bat from the Quercy Phosphorites originally named V. Bour- 

 guignati has been made the type of a distinct genus Vesper tiliavus, 



Fig. 1345- — Vesper ugo uoctula. 1 Skull, scapula, and fore and hind limbs ; from a fissure 

 in the Mendip Hills. 



and differs from Vespertilio in the proportions of the premolars. 

 Remains of numerous existing members of this family have been 

 recorded from European caverns. 



Family Emballonurid^e. — This is an extensive family showing 

 great variation in the number of the teeth, and mainly charac- 

 terised by the nose and muzzle being devoid of expansions, and 

 by certain peculiar features connected with the tail. All its 

 members at the present day are confined to tropical and sub- 

 tropical regions. In Taphozous, of which the dental formula is 



i.-, a 



Pm. 



M. -, remains of the existing T. saccolcemus occur 

 2' 1' 2' 3 



in the cave-deposits of Madras ; and Dr Weithofer considers that 

 certain humeri from the Quercy Phosphorites may indicate the 

 occurrence of this genus in the Upper Eocene. In the Brazilian 

 cave-deposits we meet with remains of a Molossus (Dysopes), prob- 

 ably identical with the living M. Temmincki of the same region. 

 Family Phyllostomatid^:. — The last family is that of the Phyl- 



1 In the previous edition this figure was wrongly named V. parisiensis. 



