An introduction to the study of mammals living and extinct / by William Henry Flower and Richard Lydekker.

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1891
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    6S4 maxillre separate in front; nostrils simple; muzzle short; index lin<'cr without a claw; tail short. Includes one species, having the''same distribution as Harpyia. The wing-membrane arises from the middle line of the back, to which it is attached by a longitudinal very thin process of the integument; the Avings are quite nuked, but the back covered by them is clothed with hair. Fteralopex.^—External characters as in I'teropus ; ears short and hairy; wings arising from the middle line of the back. Muzzle very short; plane of orbit directed more upwards than in Pteropus ; orbit surrounded by bone ; sagittal crest strongly developed Teeth cuspidate; upper incisors with broad posterior ledges; upper canine short and thick, with a stout secondary cusp in the middle of the posterior border, and two smaller postero-internal basal cusps; cheek-teeth short and broad, with their anterior and posterior basal ledges so developed and the main cusps so nearly conical as to obliterate the longitudinal grooving of Pteropus. Lower incisors very disproportionate, the outer pair being nearly twenty times the bulk of the inner ; lower canine stout, Avith a simple posterior basal ledge. Represented by P. atrata of the Solomon Islands. As already mentioned, Mr. Thomas regards the dentition of this genus as the most generalised type found in the suborder. Subfamily Capponyeteriinse.—Facial part of skuU much pro- duced • molars narrow, and scarcely raised above the gum; and the tongue exceedingly long, attenuated in the anterior third, and armed with long recui-ved papilla near the tip. , „ i mopteris.'^-Bentition: i i, <^ h P h f ^ total 28. Index fino-er without a claw; wings arising from the middle line of the back; tail long; first upper premolar long, mth two roots ihe sinc^le representative of the genus, N. macdonalch, inhabits the l_i]i Isknds, Aneiteum Island, and New Guinea. It is at once distin- guished from all other Bats of this family by the length of its tail, which is nearly as long as the forearm. , , ^ , -n,- , Eomderis.^-Denmon -.ihchP f > 15 total 34 Fu-st upper premolar small, with a single root. This genus is likewise repre- sented by a single species {E. spdcea), from the Farm Caves, Moul- mein Burma, which has somewhat the appearance of lantharpym ; but the absence of a claw to the index finger and the characteristic toneue and teeth at once distinguish it. Carponycteris' and Melonyderis,' each with a smgle species, are closely allied; the index finger in both has a claw, and the number of the teeth is the same as in Eonyderis. Carponydcm mnuma is 1 0 Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. i. p. 155 (1888). - Gray p 1859 V 36 Dobson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. xlu. rSM1873) New name: Byn. Maa-oglossus, F. Cuvier. Ben^s dcs LllW'p. 40 (1825). Preoceupied by Macroglossum, Scopoh. 1.//. B Dobson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 119-