The Encyclopedia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, and general literatureWith new maps, and original American articles by eminent writersWith American revisions and additions, bringing each volume up to date . FiQ. 74.—Suctorial Disks In Tliyroplera tricolor, a, side, afid 6, concave suiface,of thami) disk; c, foot wiih .disk, and calcar with projections (all nuich en-larged). Dobson, Proc. Zoot. Soc, 1876. account of the minute anatomy of these clinging organs seo thewriters paper in the Froc Zool. Soc., 1876, pp. 531-34). InMyxopoda aurita from Madagascar (tyjie of the second genus
The Encyclopedia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, and general literatureWith new maps, and original American articles by eminent writersWith American revisions and additions, bringing each volume up to date . FiQ. 74.—Suctorial Disks In Tliyroplera tricolor, a, side, afid 6, concave suiface,of thami) disk; c, foot wiih .disk, and calcar with projections (all nuich en-larged). Dobson, Proc. Zoot. Soc, 1876. account of the minute anatomy of these clinging organs seo thewriters paper in the Froc Zool. Soc., 1876, pp. 531-34). InMyxopoda aurita from Madagascar (tyjie of the second genus), withthe same dental formula, hut differing much in the charactcrsofthe teeth and in the form of the ears, the whole inferior surface ofthe thumb supports a large sessile horse-shof-shaped adhesive pad,with the circular margin directed forwards and notched along itsedge, and a smaller pad occupies part of the solo of the foot. Family small family, defined in the synopsis above, incliijies only. Jl^ FiG. 75 —Ifeyademta fji^as x i IXibson, Proc. Zoot. Soc., genera of Bats of very peculiar asjiect, limited to tlic tropica] and subtropical parts of the eastern hemisphere. MAMMALIA .412 . Mi-mdrrmn, i 5, pm | or i, with five species is bythe absence of uprer incisoi-s, by the cyllndi-ical narrow >; an erect naked .-utancous (the nosedeaf), the baseof ^ conceals the nasal orifices, V the immense connate earsuith larf-e bifid tra^i, and by the great extent of the interfemoralmembrane, in the base of which the very short tail is :.jae, from central Queensland (forearm 4-2 inches), ,s not onlythe largest of the genus but also of the suborder ^-lyacommon in fndia (forearm 27 inches), has boon caught m the actof sucking the blood, while Hying, from a small species of Fis-,,rrurjo, ^vhich it afterwards devoured (see Dobson s Monogmph „/the A^ic Chiroiitcra, p 77), so that it is proba
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