. The families and genera of bats . Bats; Bats. 100 BULLETIN 57, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 1875. Xyctcrkhc (part; Xycterinw) Dobson, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 4th ser., XVI, p. 348, November, 1875. 1878. Kycterithr (part, Nyclcrinw) Dobson, Catal. Cliiropt. Brit. Mus., p. 163. 1886. Mrgadenitidw (part, Nyctcrinw) Gill, Standard Natural History, V, p. 165. 1891. yijcteridw Flower and Lydekker, Mammals Living and Extinct, p- 658 (part). 1892. Rhinolophidw (part; Megadenuatini part, Xyclerides) Winge, Jord- fundne og nulevende Flagermus (Chiroptera) fra Lagoa Santa, Minas Geraes, Brasilien,
. The families and genera of bats . Bats; Bats. 100 BULLETIN 57, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 1875. Xyctcrkhc (part; Xycterinw) Dobson, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 4th ser., XVI, p. 348, November, 1875. 1878. Kycterithr (part, Nyclcrinw) Dobson, Catal. Cliiropt. Brit. Mus., p. 163. 1886. Mrgadenitidw (part, Nyctcrinw) Gill, Standard Natural History, V, p. 165. 1891. yijcteridw Flower and Lydekker, Mammals Living and Extinct, p- 658 (part). 1892. Rhinolophidw (part; Megadenuatini part, Xyclerides) Winge, Jord- fundne og nulevende Flagermus (Chiroptera) fra Lagoa Santa, Minas Geraes, Brasilien, p. 24. Geographic distribution.—Africa, except northwestern portion; also the Malay Peninsula, Java, and Timor. Characters.—Humerus with trochiter small, about equal to trochin, not articulating with scapula, the two tubercles rising very slightly above head; epitrochlea very large, with conspicuous styloid process, capi- tellum carried outward beyond line of shaft; second manal digit consisting of well-developed metacarpal only; third finger with two phalanges; shoulder girdle normal except that seventh cervical vertebra is fused with dorsal, and keel of sternum is unusually well developed, forming most of meso- sternum, longitudinal portion of pre- sternum is somewhat broadened, and first rib is noticeably strengthened; fibula absent; pelvis normal except that as a whole it is unusually short and broad, ischia wide apart posteri- orly; skull (fig. 19) with postorbital processes present but obscured by the very broad supraorbital ridges; interorbital region deeply concave; premaxillaries represented by palatal branches only, these bony throughout and completely filling space between maxillaries; teeth normal; tragus present, simple; muzzle with cutaneous outgrowths margining a deep longitudinal groove. History.—Though variously associated by the earlier authors with the Vespertilionida?, Phyllostomidsc, or Rhinolophida? this family was placed with the Megadermidse by Pet
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