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Show 716 MR. G. E. DOBSON ON THE MOLOSSI. [N species. Upper incisor on each side with a short outer basal cusp, and separated from the canine by a slight interval; first upper small premolar in the space between the canine and second premolar. Length: head and body 3"*0; tail 1"*4, tail free from membrane 0"*65; head 1"*0; ear 0"*6, tragus 0"*12; forearm 1"8 ; thumb 0"*34 ; second finger-metacarp, l"*8, 1st ph. 0"*7, 2nd ph. 0' *65 ; third finger-metacarp. 1"*7, 1st ph. 0"*6, 2nd ph. 0"*2 ; fourth finger-metacarp. 0"*65, 1st ph. 0"*55, 2nd ph. 0"*15; tibia 0 *o5; foot and claws 0"*44. Hab. Buenos Ayres. _ I have not seen the single specimen as yet obtained of this recently described species. I have therefore been obliged to copy Prof. Peters's original description, which is accompanied by an excellent plate. Genus N Y C T I N O M U S. Nyctinomus, Geoffroy, Descript. de l'Egypte, ii. p. 114 (1812) ; Horsfield, Zool. Researches in Java; Gray, Mag. Zool. Bot. ii. (1838), p. 500; Peters, Mon. Akad. Berl. 1865, p. 573. Dinops, Savi, Nuov. Giorn. de' Lett. p. 230 (1825); Bullet, des Scien. Nat. viii. p. 286 (1826). Dysopes, Cretzschmar (non Illiger), Riippell, Atlas Reise ndrdl. Afrika, Zoolog. (1826), p. 69; Temminck (in part), Monogr. Mammal, i. p. 226 (1835-41). Head of Nyctinomus macrotis. a. Antitragus; b. Keel of the ear-conch ; c. Notch behind antitragus. Ears united on the muzzle, or close together by the bases of their inner margins ; tragus short, quadrate, or rounded off above, never linear; extremity of the muzzle broad, very obliquely truncated, projecting considerably beyond the lower lip, terminated by the sharply cut margin of the nostrils; upper lip very expansible, generally deeply grooved with vertical wrinkles; wings and feet as in Molossus. 7^ .... T 2 2 n 1-1 n 2-2 1-1 •»*• 3-3 Dentition.-Inc. ^ or -^ C. j-p Pm. ^ or ^-^, M . ^-ry |
