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THE MAMMALS OF EGYPT. 
E. GeofFroy St.-Hilaire \ in 1813, wrote a paper entitled “ De I’Organisation et de la 
Determination des Nycteres, une des Families de Chauve-Souris,” but he did not designate 
the family by any Latin term. Allan 2 , in 1864, suggested the name Megadermatidae 
for the family of bats indicated by GeofFroy ; but Dobson ^ appears to have been 
unaware of this, as in 1875 he proposed the term Nycteridse. As the subfamilies into 
which Dobson subdivided the Nycteridae are here regarded as two distinct families, 
the term Nycteridae is retained for the group represented by Nycteris, and the 
designation Megadermatidae is appropriated for those bats represented by the genus 
Megaderma. 
^ Ann, du Mus. xx. 1813, p. 11. 
2 Monog. of Bats of America, 1864, p. 1. 
^ Ann. & Mag. N, H. 1875, xvi. p. 347; Palmer, Proc. Biol. 80 c. Washington, xii. 1898, p. 110. 
