. Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the collection of the ... Museum. (48 size. Its principal ditierences from the former are bummed up in the diagnosis above (the most convenient differential characters, for practical use, being the much lower p' and p^, and the subeqnal length of the third, fourth, and fifth metacarpals ; in MegaJor/lossus the fifth is much shorter than the third, the fourth intermediate). From Syconycteris it is readily distinguished by:—(1) the wide interspace between i'-i' and i,-i| (narrowly' spaced or in contact in. Fig. 70.— mhiiiiius mhriim»,
. Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the collection of the ... Museum. (48 size. Its principal ditierences from the former are bummed up in the diagnosis above (the most convenient differential characters, for practical use, being the much lower p' and p^, and the subeqnal length of the third, fourth, and fifth metacarpals ; in MegaJor/lossus the fifth is much shorter than the third, the fourth intermediate). From Syconycteris it is readily distinguished by:—(1) the wide interspace between i'-i' and i,-i| (narrowly' spaced or in contact in. Fig. 70.— mhiiiiius mhriim», J, type of subspecies. (Upper in- cisor's from skull 7^, Kediri, Java.) ? (liiiearj, front view a, outline of dorsal aspect of skull \. Syconycteris): (2) the very small incisors, i" being subequal to (if not smaller than) i', i., to i, (in Syconycteris upper incisors much larger and proclivous, and i.^ about twice the bulk of ij : (3) the normally developed interfemoral and calcar (interfemoral in Syco- nycteris reduced to a narrow rim along inner side of tibia, and calcar rudimentary). In dried skins the third of these characters is, of course, often more or less obscured. Shdl (figs. 70, 71 C).—Basicranial axis much more defleoted than itt Eonycteris and Megcdoyhssas-, alveolar line, if continued back- ward, passing through brain-case a considcriible distance above. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology . [Mammals]; Dobson, George Edward; Andersen, Knud. London
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