. An introduction to the study of mammals living and extinct. Mammals. 658 CHIROPTERA and hollowed behind, and their substance quite thin. Premolars \. Represented by A. oniatus of the Solomon Islands. Mr. 0. Thomas, the describer of this Bat, remarks that it is evidently more nearly allied to the preceding than to the succeeding genera, although it agrees with Codops in the rudimentary tail. Wiiiumycteris''- and Tricenojxs?âThese are two allied genera ivith well-developed tails; the former being represented by i?. aurantia from Australia, and the latter by T. persicus from Persia and Eastern
. An introduction to the study of mammals living and extinct. Mammals. 658 CHIROPTERA and hollowed behind, and their substance quite thin. Premolars \. Represented by A. oniatus of the Solomon Islands. Mr. 0. Thomas, the describer of this Bat, remarks that it is evidently more nearly allied to the preceding than to the succeeding genera, although it agrees with Codops in the rudimentary tail. Wiiiumycteris''- and Tricenojxs?âThese are two allied genera ivith well-developed tails; the former being represented by i?. aurantia from Australia, and the latter by T. persicus from Persia and Eastern Africa. Tricenops (Fig. 306) is characterised by the remarkable form of its nasal appendages and ears, and the presence of a peculiar osseous projection from the proximal extremity of the second phalanx of the fourth finger. Ccelops.^âThis genus is known only by a single species, C. frithi, from the Bengal Sunderbans, Java, and Siam (in the roof of the great pagoda at Laos); and is distinguished, not only by the form of its nose-leaf, but also by the great length of the metacarpal of the index finger, as well as by the shortness of the calcar and interfemoral membrane and the rudimental Fig. 306.âHead of Triayaops perdeus. x 2 (Trom Dobson, Monogr. AeiaL Chiropt.) Family Xycteeid^. This small family, including only two genera of Bats of peculiar aspect, limited to the tropical and subtropical parts of the eastern hemisphere, is distinguished from the PMnolophidm by the presence of a distinct tragus to the ear, and by the premaxUlae being cartila- ginous or small and separated from one another in front by a dis- tinct space. Megaclerma^âDQTiXAtion â i ^, c j-, p ?=i, m f; total 28 or 26. This genus, which is represented by five species, is readily recognised by the absence of upper incisors, the cylindrical narrow muzde surmounted by an erect naked cutaneous nose-leaf, the base of which conceals the nasal orifices, by the immense connate ears with large bifid tragi,
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