82 MICROCHIROPTERA. 



numerous long brush-like papillse. Interfemoral membrane very 

 narrow. Tail generally quite concealed by the fur. Fur reddish- 

 brown, unusually long for this family. 



Dimensions. Head and body about two and a third inches ; tail 

 about a third of an inch ; forearm about one and two-fifths inch. 



Habitat. North and West Australia. From the Philippine 

 Islands through the Malay Archipelago eastward to New Ireland 

 and the Solomon Islands. 



Reference. Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 476. 



Note. Though of so small a size, this Bat is said to be very 

 destructive to fruit. 



Suborder II. Microchiroptera. 



Crowns of molar teeth acutely tubercular with transverse fur- 

 rows. Bony palate narrowing abruptly, not continued behind 

 last molar. Second finger not terminating in a claw. Sides of 

 ear-conch separated at the base anteriorly. Stomach simple, or 

 with the cardiac extremity more or less elongated. 



Habits. Carnivorous ; principally insectivorous ; rarely frugi- 

 vorous or sanguinivorous. 



Family II. BHINOLOPHIME. 



Leaf-nosed Bats. 



Nasal apertures situated in a depression upon the upper surface 

 of the muzzle, and surrounded with well developed foliaceous 

 cutaneous appendages. Ears large, generally separated, without 

 tragi. Index finger imperfect, without a phalanx. Tail distinct 

 produced to the outer margin of the interfemoral membrane. Pre- 

 maxillary bones rudimentary, suspended from the nasal cartilage. 

 Upper incisors rudimentary, close together. 



Subfamily I. KHINOLOPHIN/E. 



First toe with two joints ; others with three each. Iliopectineal 

 spine not connected by bone with the antero-inferior surface of 

 the ilium. 



Genus I. RHINOLOPHUS, Geoffroy (1803). 



Nose-leaf very complicated, consisting of three distinct portions; 

 the anterior horizontal, horseshoe-shaped, usually angularly 

 emarginate in front, containing within its circumference the 

 nasal orifices, and the central erect nasal processes ; the posterior 

 erect, triangular, with cells on its anterior surface ; the central 



