CHIROPTERA, INSECTIVORA. 
Mamm. 11 
Rhinolophid^i. 
Trioinops afer, sp. n., W. Peters, tom. cit. p. 913, East Africa. 
VeSPERTI LlONID^. 
Vesperugo grandidieri^ sp. n., G. E. - Dobson, Ann. N. H. (4) xviii. 
p. 500, Zanzibar. 
Chalinolohus signifer, sp. n., G. E. Dobson, op. cit. xvii. p. 289, Queens- 
land. 
Thjroptera tricolor. On the structure of its feet ; G. E. Dobson 
\_suprd^ p. 4]. 
EmbALLONUR1DJ5. 
G. E. Dobson monographs his group 3Iolossi, characterizing 1 species 
of Chiromeles, 9 of Molossus, and 21 of Nyctinomys. P. Z. S. 1876, 
pp. 701-735. 
Nyctinomys megalotis, p. 728, Surinam, and N. albiventer, p. 733, 
Madagascar, id. 1. c. ; N. africanus, id. Ann. N. H. (4) xvii. p. 348, South 
Africa : spp. nn. 
Mystacina tuherculata. On the structure of the feet, claws, and wing- 
membrane ; id. P. Z. S. 1876, pp. 486-488. 
Taphozous hargravii, sp. n., E. Pierson Ramsay, P. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 
i. p. 81, New South Wales. 
Ph YLLOSTOMATIDAC . 
Pelto{r']rhinus, g. n. ; allied to Stenoderma, but differing in dentition. 
Type, Artiheus achradopMlus., Gosse. W. Peters, MB. Ak. Berl. 1876, 
p. 429, pi. ii. 
Stenoderma. W. Peters figures the types of S. rufum, Geoff;, figs. 1-7, 
and Vampyrops lineatus^ Geoff., figs. 8-14, 1. c. pi. i. 
.Macrotiis hocourtianus, sp. n., G. E. Dobson, Ann. N. H. (4) xviii. 
p. 436, Guatemala. 
INSECTIVORA. 
Gill, T. Synopsis of Insectivorous Mammals. Bull. U. S. Surv. i. 
(1875) pp. 91-120. 
Various arrangements are reviewed, and the following modification 
of that suggested by the author in 1873 [cf. Zool. Rec. x. p. 3] is 
adopted : — 
SuB-OiiD. I. Dermoptera, with GaUopithecidcc. 
;, II. Bestiau, 
Superfam. 1 . Tupaioidea, with Tupaiidse and Macroscelididae. 
„ 2. Erinaceoidea, with Erinaceidaa. 
,, 3. Soricoidea., with Talpidae and Soricidae. 
„ 4. Centetoidea, with Centetidae and Potamogalidae. 
„ 5. Chrysocldoroid ea., with Chrysochloridas. 
