. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization. Animals. CARNARIA. 69 phalanges, like that of the preceding, has no nail. The membranes of their vrings, instead of meeting at the flank, are joined to each other at the middle of the back, to which they adhere by a vertical and longitudinal partition [a character whicli occurs, however, more or less completely, that is, the volar membrane 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 interma^aries, that are
. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization. Animals. CARNARIA. 69 phalanges, like that of the preceding, has no nail. The membranes of their vrings, instead of meeting at the flank, are joined to each other at the middle of the back, to which they adhere by a vertical and longitudinal partition [a character whicli occurs, however, more or less completely, that is, the volar membrane 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 interma^aries, that are moveable backwards and forwards]. " M. Isidore Geoffi'oy, in a monograph of this genus IPteropus'], forms the Pt. personatus, Tem., and some allied species, into the subgenus Pachysoma, which has four molars less than the others, and the zygomatic arches more projecting : the Pt. minimus or rostratus composes his subgenus Macro- glossus, the muzzle of which is longer and more slender, and there are spaces between the grinders ; it is beUeved that the tongue is extensile [now known to be shghtly so, and of a rather longer and more acuminate form than in the others]. Lastly, he separates the Cephalot of Peron from that of Pallas, and applies to the former the name Hypodermis, on account of the complete dorsal insertion of the membranes of its ;* [M. Temminck, in his excellent monograph of the Pteropidts, or fnigivorous Bats (published in 1835), adopts, as generic, the divisions Pteropus, Pachysoma (Ci/nopterits, F. Cuv.), Cephalotes, Geof. (Hypodermis, Is. Geof.), Harpyia, Illiger (Cephalotes, Is. Geof.), and \ Six species are known of Pachysoma, which present some other pecuUar characters, and vary in size from ten to twenty inches across : the remaining three respectively consist of one known species only, viz., C. Peronii, sometimes two and a half feet in extent,—JÏ. Pallasii (fig. 9), a singular looking animal, from Ti- mour, fourteen inches
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