. The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization; forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. 58 Div. 1. VERTEBEATE ANIMALS.—MAM"MALIA. Class Fig. 10.—llcaJ of Dysopus tenuis. The Dinops of M. Savi refers to these Molossiues with six inferior incisors. There is one of them in Italy {Dinops ccstonli, Savi). M. Geoffrey has applied the name Nyctonomus to those wliich have four inferior incisors. Tlie Molossines were at first dis- covered only in America; but >ve now know several from both con- tinents. Some of them have t!ie hinder
. The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization; forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. 58 Div. 1. VERTEBEATE ANIMALS.—MAM"MALIA. Class Fig. 10.—llcaJ of Dysopus tenuis. The Dinops of M. Savi refers to these Molossiues with six inferior incisors. There is one of them in Italy {Dinops ccstonli, Savi). M. Geoffrey has applied the name Nyctonomus to those wliich have four inferior incisors. Tlie Molossines were at first dis- covered only in America; but >ve now know several from both con- tinents. Some of them have t!ie hinder thumb placed farther from the other dibits than these are from each other, and capable of , , i i -n. it„,. r,ni,i 1,1= separate motion; a character on which, in one species where it is very strongly marked. Dr. .field has established Ids o-enus Cheiromdcs [the ears of which, also, differ in being widely separated]. It is probable that we should also place here the Thyroptera of Spix, which appears to have several cha- racters of the Molossines, and the thumb of which has a little concave palette pccuhar to them (ng. 10, a, .^y which they are enabled to cling more closely. [Several species of this genus agree in possessing this appendage, ' which is proportionally larger in the '^X ^\ As a whole, the group of lilolossmes is ^ ' '?^ extremely distinct and insulated, though consisting of a vast number of species, of which about twenty may be considered established; six or seven of these ap- pertain to the eastern hemisphere. The largest and most curious of them is D. c/ieiiopus,Tem.{C/iciro7neles, Horsf., fig. U), from Siani, which nioasurea nearly two feet across: it is quite naked, with the exception of an abrupt collar of hairs round the neck. Several have the upper lip laterally pendent (fig. 10), whence the name Molossus or Mastiff; and the term Bi/sopus refers to the toes being more or less tufted with hair. The greater number of species arc from Brazil and Para
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