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MAMMALIA. 
upper surface or produced considerably beyond the truncated 
membrane. “ Emballonurine Alliance.’^ 
h'. First phalanx of middle finger folded (in repose) on dorsal sur- 
face of metacarpal. 
c". Nostrils with simple circular or valvular apertures, without 
cutaneous appendages ; tragus distinct. 
Fam. IV. EmhallonuridcB (sub-ff. EmballonurincB and MolossinoR). 
h. Middle finger with three phalanges ; nostrils opening in front of 
cutaneous appendages or at extemity of muzzle, chin with warts 
or ridges, premaxillaries well developed, united. 
Fam. V. Phyllostomidce (Sub-if. Phyllostomince and Lobostomince). 
The sub-famiiies and “ groups of allied genera ” are all characterized, 
and a table given of their probable descent from a hypothetical ancestral 
stirps, named Palceochiroptera. 
VESPERTILIONIDiE. 
Histiotus. W. Peters reviews the Chilian Bats allied to H. velatus, 
and redescribes H. macrotuSj Vesperus montanus and F. magellanicus. 
MB. Ak. Berl. 1875, pp. 785-792, 1 pi. 
Vesperugo stenopterus (Borneo, p. 470), pulcher (2Janzibar, p. 471), 
tylopus (Borneo, p. 473), spp. nn., Gr. E. Dodson, P. Z. S. 1875. F. nanus, 
Pet., redescribed, id. tom. cit. p. 472. ^ 
Vesperugo platyrhinus, sp. n., G. E. Dobson, Ann. N. H. (4) xvi. p. 262, 
hab. incert. 
Scotozous, g. n., allied to Vesperugo, but with only two upper incisors ; 
type, S. dormeri, sp. n., S. India : id. P. Z. S. 1875, p. 372. 
Scotophilus. G. E. Dobson follows Peters in using this name for the 
Old World Nycticeji, characterizes it, and describes S. greyi, Gr. ; tom. cit. 
pp. 368-372. 
Scotophilus gigas, sp. n., G. E. Dobson, Ann. N. fl. (4) xvi. p. 122 ; 
W. Africa. 
Scotophilus leialeri. On its distribution in Ireland [cf. Zool. Bee. x. 
p. 7], R. M. Barrington, Zool. (s. s.) 1875, p. 4532. 
Vespertilio africanus and megalopus, spp. nn., G. E. Dobson, Ann. N. H. 
(4) xvi. pp. 260 & 261 ; W. Africa. 
Vespertilio desertorum, sp. n., id. tom. cit. p. 309 ; Baluchistdn. 
* BMBALLONURIDiE. 
Taphozous. G. E. Dobson monographs this genus, dividing it into two 
sub-genera, Taphozous, a. str., with a radio-metacarpal pouch, and Tapho- 
nycteris, sub-g.n., with none. Ten species are recognized. P. Z. S. 1875, 
pp. 546-556. 
Taphozous affinis, sp. n., id. Ann. N. H. ( 4) xvi. p. 232 ; Labuan. 
INSEOTIVORA. 
"^E. D. Cope refers the American Eocene Mammals hitherto placed 
among the Carnivora or in Marsh’s order Tillodontia [infr^, p. 9] to this 
