Annals and Magazine of Natural History Series 5

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A long-tongued Pteropine from West Africa

Dr. H.A. Pagenstecher

To cite this article: Dr. H.A. Pagenstecher (1885) A long-tongued Pteropine Bat from West Africa, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 16:91, 74-74, DOI: 10.1080/00222938509487509

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Published online: 09 Oct 2009.

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MISCELLANEOUS. A long-tongued Pteropine Bat from West Africa. By Dr. H. A. PAO~NS~CH~R. W'cermanni, nov. gen. et spec. Long-tongued fruit-eating have not hitherto beer~ found further west thun the Himalayas. Our Museum (Hamburg) has just received one through M. Soyaux, from Lsibange-Fann in Gaboon. This great change in our zoogeographicalexperience justi- fies a preliminary communication. Our belongs to Dobson's second group of the Maeroglossi : --" Second finger with a distinct claw ; intermaxillary bones united in front." It has the full dentition wlm:~-t-].., 2 . 1_3+~ -t-~4-=~ on each side. If Melonyeteris had not been separated from Maeroglossus the pre- sent species might also have been left in .~Iacroglossus. In size and in some of its characters it is intermediate between these two genera ; but in other points it departs more from than Melonycterls. The tail, wanting in Melonycteris, has here two vertebrm more than in Macrogloss~ts. The membrane on the foot, ori- ginating in Maeroglossus from the fourth toe and in Melonycteris from the third, originates here with narrow bands from the third and second. The muzzle is still simpler than in either genus; the second premolar, both above and below, projects beyond the others ; two posterior palatal folds are divided, as in Melonycteris, while they are not so in Macroglossus. As the tongue is as long as in the much larger Melonycteris melanops, Dobs. (alboscapulatus, Ramsay), and at the same time broad, I propose the generic name of Megalo- glossus. The species is dark brown, rather lighter on the body; total length from the muzzle to the interfemoral membrane 90, of the forearm 45, of the third finger 80 millim. The species will be fully described and figured in the supplement to the Annual Report on the Museum for 1885.--Zool. Anzeiger, April 27, 1885, no. 193, p. 245.

On the Mode of Development of Cantharis vesicatoria. By M. H. B~AVR~aA~D. Downloaded by [University of Arizona] at 03:49 07 June 2016 After three years of investigations I have the satisfaction of being able to present to the Academy the solution of a question which has hitherto remained a mystery. It has been attempted in vain to ascertain where Cantharis vesicatoria was developed, and whence came those dense masses of insects which annually settle upon the ash trees and completely strip them of their leaves. When, in the course of the investigation that I have undertaken upon the tribe Vesicantia, I came to the question of the develop- ment of the Cantharis, M. Liehtenstein, of Montpcllier, h ad succeeded by artificial rearing in demonstrating that the Cantharis passes through the various stages of hypermetamorThosis , and that its larvm live upon honey. As he bad only published very succinct descrip- tions, unaccompanied by figures, of the various states of the insect, I