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Dcsmodus. Prof. Peinliardt’s examination of tlio intestinal tract fully con- 
firms Prof. Huxley’s observation (Zool. Itecord; ii. p. 30). Biphylla agi-ees 
also in this respect with Desmodus (according to Peters’s researches). The 
author asserts on this occasion that these bats are blood-suckers, but denies 
this entirely of the Stenodermatous and Glossophagous species, the stomach 
of the former containing fruits, and that of the latter insects. Vidensk. 
Meddel. fra d. naturhist. Foren. i Kjbbenh. for 18G5-66, pp. 241-244. 
4 Chilonycteris oshtirni (Tomes) = Phyllodia parncllii ((jvsLy). Peters,/, c. 
p. 678. 
Aello cuvieri (Leach). Dr. Gray states that he has found the typical spe- 
cimen, that the genus is identical with his Chilonycteris = Lohostoma of 
Gundlach, and that the species agrees in coloration with Lohostoma dnna-- 
momeum (Gundlach), which ho believes to be only a variety of Ch. macleayii. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. I860, p. 148. 'I Prof. Peters states that the supposed typical 
example is Leach’s Mormops hlainvilliiy and, therefore, that some confusion 
must have taken place. Monatsb. Ak. Wiss. Berlin, 1866, p. 678. 
4 Dr. Gray lias published a synopsis of the genera and sub- 
genera of the Inseetivorous Bats without nose-leaf, whieli he 
divides into two families [VespertUlonickc and Noctilionidcd)^ 
, arranging them thus (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xvii.pp. 89-93) : — 
Fam. VJ5SPE11TILIONIDA2. Face simple. Nostrils on the front of the nose, 
simple. The cutting-teeth separated in the middle by a space, and placed 
near the canines. Grinders acutely tubercular, three on each side in each 
jaw, the hinder one short and broad ; with one, two, or three false grinders 
in front of tliem. Intermaxillaries separate from one another in the front of 
the palate, leaving a notch between the cutting-teeth. 
I. Tail elongate,* enclosed, and extended to the end of the elongated and 
produced interfemoral membrane. 
A. Ears separate, lateral; the face short, broad, nearly bald; forehead 
flat ; skull thick ; brain-case oblong, scarcely raised above the face. 
a. Scotophilinci. The nostrils simple, pierced in the front of the nose, 
with a very short groove behind them. 
1. Scotophiliis (Scotophilus, Vesperugo, Philocrj^ptus). 
2. Atalapha (Lasiurus, Atalapha). 
■ 3. Vesperus (Vesperus, Pipistrellus, Nycticejus). 
4. Pachyomus (Scotophilus pachyomus. Tomes). 
b. Romtdima, Nostrils in front of long, simple-edged grooves, 
which converge and unite behind on the centre of the nose between the 
swollen cheeks. 
5. Itomida. 
B. Ears separate, lateral ; face elongate, narrow, hairy ; forehead convex, 
hairy ; skull with a swollen brain-case and narroAV face. 
c. Vespertilionina. Cutting- teeth close to the canines. 
6. Tralatitius (Tralatitius, Capaccinus). 7. Vespertilio. 8. llarpyioce^ 
phalus. 9. I^erivoula. 10. Murina. 
d. Natalinia. Upper ciitting-teeth in pairs, separated from the 
canines by a space. Palate of skull not reaching beyond the last molar. 
11. Natalus, 12. Mmiopteris, 13. FuricUa, 14. Thyroptera= Hyonycteris 
(Tomes). 
