The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . d all that are now .-vaV// ranged in Pteropus; and one species only {Pt. macro- ceplialus, Ogilby), from the Gambia, presents any markedFij;. 8.—Head uf Picropns eduiis. departure from the general character, in the great size of its head, the superior magnitude and solidity of itscanines, and separation of the molars: allied to it is Pt. gambianus, Ogilby, from the same locality, and , Ben., which has a singular tuft on each side of the neck. The n
The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . d all that are now .-vaV// ranged in Pteropus; and one species only {Pt. macro- ceplialus, Ogilby), from the Gambia, presents any markedFij;. 8.—Head uf Picropns eduiis. departure from the general character, in the great size of its head, the superior magnitude and solidity of itscanines, and separation of the molars: allied to it is Pt. gambianus, Ogilby, from the same locality, and , Ben., which has a singular tuft on each side of the neck. The name Epomophorus, Ben., is applied tothese three species by Gray.] 3. According to the indicia of M. Geoffroy, we now separate from the Roussettes The Cephalots {Cephalotes, Geof),—Which have [nearly] similar grinders, but in which the index finger, short, and consisting of three * Perhaps the frugivorous speeics form an exception to this. The I t The same appears to be the case with some of the insectivorousothers are naked at birth, but have the limbs strong, and adapted for Bats of Europe.—Ed. elinifiiig to their parent. I. CARNARIA. 69 phalanges, like that of the preceding, has no nail. The membranes of their wings, instead of meetingat the flank, are joined to each other at the middle of the back, to which they adhere by a vertical andlongitudinal partition [a character which occurs, however, more or less completely, that is, the volarmembrane is attached more or less near to the middle of the back, in some of the Roussettes].They have often only two incisors [when adult, which are inserted in small curved iutermaxillaries,that are moveable backwards and forwards]. M. Isidore Geoffroy, in a monograph of this genus IPlerojms], forms the Pt. jiersonatus, Tem.,and some allied species, into the subgenus Pachysoma, which has four molars less than the others, andthe zygomatic arches more projecting: the Pt. minimus or rosfratus composes his subgenus Macro-glossus, the muzzl
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