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Canine teeth not shearlike or specially modified ; mo- 
lars well developed, with at least some trace of 
crushing surface. 
Toes (except hallux) with three phalanges each; 
thumb and foot without sucking disk, 
PhYLLOSTOMULE, p. 116. 
Toes with two phalanges each ; thumb and foot 
with sucking disk. 
Tragus free; no mushroom-shaped process in 
auditory meatus ; second finger reduced to 
an incomplete metacarpal ; sucking disks 
pedicillate Thyropterid.e, p. 190. 
Tragus adnate to ear conch ; a conspicuous 
mushroom-shaped process in auditory mea- 
tus ; second finger with well-developed meta- 
carpal ; sucking disks sessile, 
Myzopodid^e, p. 193. 
Family RHINOPOMIMl. 
1821. Vespertilionidw (part; Race 1, part) Gray, London Medical Reposi- 
tory, XV, p. 299, April 1, 1821. 
1827. “ Les Phyllostomes ” Lesson, Man. de Mannnalogie, p. 76 (part). 
1831. Vespertiliones (Vespertilionidw) (part; Phyllostomina , part) Bona- 
parte, Saggio di una distrib. metodica degli Anim. Vert., p. 15. 
1838. Vespertilionidw (part; Rhinopomina) Bonaparte, Nuovi Annali delle 
Scienze Naturali, Bologna, Anno I, Tomo II, p. 112. 
1838. Vespertilionidw (part; Phyllostomina, part) Gray, Mag. Zool. and 
Bot., II, p. 486, December, 1838. 
1854. [ RTiinolophidw ] “ Rhinolophides ” Gervais, Ilistoire Naturelle des 
Mammiferes, p. 200 (part). 
1865. Megadermata Peters, Monatsber. k. preuss. Akad. Wissenscli., Berlin, 
p. 256 (part). 
1866. Rhinolophidw (part; Rhinopomina ) Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 
8L 
1872. Rhinopomatida’ Dobson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, XLI, Pt. 2, p. 221. 
1875. Emhallonuridw (part; Rliinopomata) Dobson, Ann. and Mag. Nat. 
Hist., 4th ser., XVI, p. 349, November, 1875. 
1878 . Emballonuridw (part; Rliinopomata ) Dobson, Catal. Cliiropt. Brit. 
Mus., p. 353. 
1886. Emhallonuridw (part; Rliinopomata) Gill, Standard Natural History, 
V, p. 169. 
1891. Emballonuridw (part) ; Emballonurinw, part, Rhinopomatine division) 
Flower and Lydekker, Mammals living and extinct, p. 666. 
1892. Emballonuridw (part; Rhinopomatini ) Winge, Jordfundne og nule- 
vende Flagermus (Chiroptera) fra Lagoa Santa, Minas Geraes, Bra- 
silien, p. 24. 
Geographic distribution. — From Egypt through southern Asia, to 
Burma and Sumatra. 
Characters. — -Humerus with trochiter well developed though not 
as large as trochin, not articulating with scapula, neither tubercle 
rising above head; epitrochlea not specially developed (about as in 
Pteropidse) , capitellum nearly in line with shaft ; second manal digit 
