on the coast of Guinea. Most of these distinct genera or
subdivisions of the simiæ compose many individual species :
all are restricted to some particular province. From thi s summary
indication it appears that the intertropiçal region of the
old world is far from being generally inhabited by the monkey
tribe. They are found in all the hot regions of Africa ;
but the island of Madagascar has not a single species ; and the
quadrumani which there replace them are lemurians. I n .
Asia, the coast of India and Cochin-china and the great
Sunda isles are the only spots where monkeys are found.
They are wanting in the Moluccas, in New Guinea, and the
whole extent of Terra Australis, and the lands of the great
southern ocean.
America, says M. Lesson, contains a great number of
species, which- differ entirely from those of the old continent.*
They inhabit the vast forests of Brazil, and Guiana,
and the banks of the Orinoco, and th e other great! rivers.
New Spain has only a few species, and Northern Paraguay
but three or four. Neither Peru, Chili, nor Mexico Proper,
contains any race of monkeys; and this tribeiof animals
is confined in the new world to the space bounded on
the westward by the Andes, northward by the isthmus; of
Panama, and southward by the Rio-de-la-Plata.f
The lemurian tribe, are the makis and the indris, confined
to Madagascar ; two species of loris in India ; several; species
of galago, all inhabitants of Africa ; and the, tarsiers, natives
of the Moluccas.^
In the cheiropterons tribe, which forms the first division of
zoophagous animals, the pteropi or roussettes and some
other bats nearly allied to them, constitute a veiy distinct
family. Numerous species of roussettes inhabit the shores
* The American species are divided into three tribes or sub-genera. 1. Sapajous,
or monkeys with pórpensile tails. 2. Sagouins. 3. Ouistitis, termed arc-
topitheci, or monkeys withThears’ claws ; having, instead of flattened nails, blaws
resembling those of the rodéntia or glires.
-f- Lesson. Hist, des Mammifères.
Î On the distribution of the monkey and lemurian tribes, see, Cuvier. Reg.
An. i. p. 119.—M. Geoff. S t Hilaire, Mem. sur les atèles. Ann. du Mus.
tom. vii. § 13. Tableau des Quadrumanes, tom. xix.—Magazin Encyclopédique,
tom. vii.r—Mémoirs sur 1® espèces du genré Loris, Annales du Mus. xiv.-
of the Indian ocean and the Malayan archipelago. Several
of these are in the Moluccas, the Isle- of Tinian, Amboyna,
Java, and Sumatra; others.i-n;Madagascar ;osome in Africa.
The pteropus keraudren has : been:' found ,4# the Marian
isles, and at Oualan; and artother spteciës, Pt. Tonganas was
discovered by M. M. Quoy and Gaimard at Tonga taboo.
Other tribes tof bats, agreeing with the roussettes in their
general character:as well as in the-.countriès ito which- they
are distributed, are the pachysomes, the ^oynopteræ; * the
macroglosses, the harpy es,:.and the hypodermes. The true
.vespertiliones or corpuscular bats are* found in nearly all
countries': they feed on; insects and small aninials.' ; ; Eighteen
species have been enumerated by M. iGeofiroy SaintJ Hi-
laire,;!,and not less than fifty-six by4 Ml. Iiess'én.i* \Sdme of
•them arè, expensively .dispersed,, b u t1 the%reater number iare
found only in some limited tract, not one; species being" common
to the Joîd- and thè^ÿpte world.# h The i .plecotæ', or
long-eared bats; ?were, separatedcby M.iSaint Hilaire ; from
the vespertiHonp^, as > were the; nycticemiby RaffineBtpnu.f
They are.distributed as the-former. The taphians of similar
habits are all qf :the>,old continent’.^ .Of the molossi/tfpur-
feen speeiesiare enumerated by Lesson they belong-'to-the
new worlds The numerous tribêsfef phyllo^nhses^ vampÿréë
or ibldocbsuckingv'bats, forming1 ,aj separate- family,; wÉichds
ftirongly distinguished from, all t h e ï s t i of thee öhèiröpteroùs
tribe, are also peculiar to thé warm ■ regions of American Wt
bdThe insectiivora are neither1 very widely^gpeéi, if : we boni-
side.r the range ..of particular species, nor ;'are;? they greatly
diversified. They a re confined! towards temperate climates ;
and »none of them are known to exist in; different,regions,
being remotefijom each other. The erinaceiSor hedgehogs
• e»yT‘R.',A.']if
Lesson, v. p 111.
$ Lesson, 127. See Description des Rousettes et des Cëj>halotes, deux nouveaux
genres de la Famille des Chauve-souris. .Par M. Geoffroy .St. Hilaire;
Annales du Mus. d’IIist. Nat. tom. xiv.,, Mémoire sur les Phyljlostqjqes et les
Mégadermes. Par le mêtné. Ibid, tom- xv. Mém. sur le Genre et les Espèces
du Vespertilions, l’un dès Génres de la Famille de CbauV'e-sèuri's. Par le meme.
Ibid. tom. viii. Item, sur les Rhinolopbes, tom. xv. p. 162. Mémoire sur quelques
Chauve-souris .d'Amérique fermant une petite Famille sous le nom Molossus.
Par le même. Ibid. tom. vi.