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sensitive, leaf-like growths of complicated form. Certain 

 bats are known to enter houses, and suck the blood from 



Fig. 612. Skull of adult t-pt. in wliale s-i-n from above and from the side, bo, 

 hanoccipital bone ; eo, exoccipital : fto, supraoccipital ; p, parietal ; *, pquamosal ; f, 

 frontal ; pi, palatine; j, jugal ; A, etylohyoid ; bh, basihyoid ; </t, thyrohyoid. After 



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the extremities of sleeping persons, who awaken to find their 

 leet covered with blood. The true vampire is harmless. 



