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c. The tail free above the membrane. 



P. cremdaiiim, Geoff. Ann. du Mus. XV, pi. 10. (The In- 

 dented Javelin Bat.) The leaf denticulated on the edges. 



M. Geoffroy, Mem. du Mus. IV, p. 418, separates from the Phyl- 

 lostomee those species whose tongues are narrow, susceptible of elon- 

 gation, and furnished with papillae resembling hairs he calls them 

 Glossophaga. 



These species are likewise from AmeriGa.(l) 



In the second great tribe of Bats the index has only one bony 

 phalanx, while all the other fingers have two. 



This tribe is also divided into several subgenera. 



Megaderma, Geoff. Ann. du Mus. XV. 



The membrane on the nose, or the leaf, more complicated than 

 that of the Phyllostomie ; the tragus large and most commonly 

 bifurcated ; the conchs of the ear ample and soldered together on 

 the top of the head j tongue and lips smooth ; the inter-femoral mem- 

 brane entire, and no tail. They have four incisors below^ but there 

 are none above, and their inter-maxillary bone remains cartilaginous. 

 They are all from the eastern continent, either from Africa, 

 the Leaf ivoxa Senegal for instance, (Meg. Frons., Geoff.) whose 

 nasal membrane is oval and nearly as large as the head ; or 

 from the Indian Archipelago, as the Spasma of Tern ate, Vcs- 

 pert. Spasma, L,.,Seh. I, lvi. La Lyre, Geoff. Ann. Mus. XV, 

 pi. 12. Le Trejie de Java, Id. ib., &c. They are distinguished 

 from, each other by the figure of the leaf, like the Phyllostomse . 



Rhinolophus, Geoff, and Cuv. 



The nose of the Horse-shoe Bats, as they are vulgarly called, is 

 furnished with very complex crests and membranes laid upon the 

 chanfrin, presenting the figure of a horse-shoe ; the tail long and 

 placed in the inter-femoral membrane. Thei*e are four incisors be- 

 low, and two very small ones above in a cartilaginous inter-maxillary 

 bone. 



There are two species of them in France which are very com- 

 mon, discovered by Daubenton. 



R. bifer^ Geoff., Ann. Mus. XX, pi. 5 ,- Vesp. ferrum eqiii^ 

 num^ L.; and the small one, Vesp. hipposideros, Bechst. 



(1) Vespertilio soricinus, Tall. Spicil. Fascic. Ill, pi. Sand 4, copied Buff. Supp. 

 Ill, pi. 53- Glaasoph. amplcxlcaudaiicis, Geoff. Mem. Mus. IV, pi. 18, F. C. Gl. 

 raudifcr. Id. ib. pi- 17, fig'. A and 1?. 

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