The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . Fig. 9.—Harpyia The Molossines {Molossus, Geof. Dysopus%, Illig.)These have the muzzle simple; the ears broad and short, arising near the angle of the lips, anduniting with each other upon the muzzle ; the tragus short, and not enveloped by the conch. Theirtail occupies the whole length of the interfemoral membrane, and very often extends beyond it.[Their wings are narrow, and body large and heavy.] It is seldom that they have more tlian two in-cisors
The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . Fig. 9.—Harpyia The Molossines {Molossus, Geof. Dysopus%, Illig.)These have the muzzle simple; the ears broad and short, arising near the angle of the lips, anduniting with each other upon the muzzle ; the tragus short, and not enveloped by the conch. Theirtail occupies the whole length of the interfemoral membrane, and very often extends beyond it.[Their wings are narrow, and body large and heavy.] It is seldom that they have more tlian two in-cisors to each jaw : but, according to M. Temminck, several of them have at first six below, four ofwhich they successively lose. * This passaijc occurs in tlie Appendix to the oriijinal The term Miicmglosiiis, however, has unfortunately beioccupieil in Entomology : for which reason Kiodotus (thename of tlie species, latinized) may be proposed in its stead. liatpyia is likewise used in Ornitholof^, where anoiheaubstituied.— This term is more jfenerally accepted.—Eo. apprlliti( / Fig. lU.—Head of Dysopu The Dinops of M. Savi refers tothese Molossiues with six inferiorincisors. There is one of them inItaly (Dinops cestonii, Savi). M. Geoflfroy has applied the nameNycionomus to those which havefour inferior incisors. The Molossines were at first dis-covered only in America; but wenow know several from both con-tinents. Some of them have thehinder thumb placed farther fromthe other dig-its than these arefrom each other, and capable ofseparate motion ; a character on which, in one species where it is very strongly marked, Dr. Horslield hasestablished his genus Cheiromeles [the ears of which, also, differ in being widely separated]. It is probable that we should also i)htce here the Thijroptera of Spix, which appears to have several cha-racters of the Molossines, and the thumb of which has a little concave palette peculiar to them (fig. 10, a), bywhich they
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