24 Mamm, 
MAMMALIA. 
power of flight. Full accounts are given of the digestive, respiratory 
and urino-genital systems. The author’s general conclusions are, that 
the divisions used by Dobson are, on the whole, supported by the 
anatomical facts ; but that he would be inclined to unite the two families 
Nycteridce and lihinolophidai , to subdivide the Emballonuridai , and to 
form a new family for Harpyia. distinct from the Pteropodidce. The 
paper is illustrated with 8 excellent anatomical plates. (See also Rev. 
Sci. xxix. p. 507.) 
A . Sur les enveloppes foetales des Chiropteres de la famille des Phyl- 
lostomides. C. It. xcv. p. 1377. 
Observations on embryos of Artibeus perspicillatus , Macrotus water- 
Jiousii , and Desmodus rufus. 
^Vogt, C. Recherches sur l’embryogenie des Chauves-souris. C. R. 
Assoe. Fran9. 1881, p. 655 [pub. 1882]. 
Pteropodidas. 
Pteropus phceocephalus and breviceps, spp. nn., 0. Thomas, P. Z. S. 1882, 
p. 755, pis. liv. & lv., Caroline Islands. 
Cynopteru8 montani , sp. n., H. A. Robin, Ann. Sci. Nat. (6) xiii. Art. 2, 
and Bibl. ICcole Hautes ^t. xxvi. p. 1, pi. i., Kessang, Malacca. 
Phinolophid^. 
Rhinolophus hipposuleros. On its occurrence in Yorkshire ; W. D. 
Roebuck, Yorksh. Nat. vii. 1882, p. 166 (cf. Zool. Anz. v. p. 512). 
Pliyllorrhina tridens , var. n. murraiana , J. Anderson, Cat. Mamm. Ind. 
Mus. p, 113, Karachi and Bushire. 
Nycteridjc. 
Nycteris revoili , sp. n., H. A. Robin, Ann. Sci. Nat. (6) xiii. Art. 2, and 
Bibl. Nicole Hautes Et. xxvi. p. 3, Somali-land. 
Vespertilioniile. 
Vespertilio dobsoni , sp. n., J. Anderson, Cat. Mamm. lud. Mus. p. 143, 
Purneah, Bengal. 
Ph Y LLOSTO M AT I DiK , 
Sphceronycteris, g. n., Peters, SB. Ak. Berl. 1882, p. 987. Allied to 
Ametridci, Gray, but differs by the lesser development and different 
shape of the nose-leaf, by the far shorter palate, which ends opposite the 
second molar, and by other lesser characters. S. toxophyllum , sp. n., 
id. 1. c. p. 989, pi. xvi., Tropical America. 
