Class I. L O N G E A R E D B A T. 147 



LaChauve-fouris a fer acheval. Horfe-fhoc Bat. Sjn. quad, 39. Horse- 

 Be BuffonMlW. i-^x.Tab, No. 186. shoe. 



xvii. XX. 



THIS fpecies was difcovered by Mr. Latham 

 Surgeon at Bartford, Kent-, who was fo oblig- 

 ing as to communicate it to me. They are found 

 in greateft numbers in the falt-petre houfes belong- 

 ing to the powder mills ; and frequent them during 

 the evening for the fake of the gnats which fwarm 

 there. They have been alfo found during winter in 

 a torpid (late clinging to the roof. They often feed 

 on Chafers, but only eat the body. 



The length from the nafe to the tip of the tail 

 is three inches and a half: the extent fourteen. At 

 the end of the nofe is an upright membrane in 

 form of a horfe-flioe. Ears large, broad at their 

 bafe, inclining backwards^ but want the little or in- 

 ternal ear. The color of the upper part of the 

 body is deep cinereous , of the lower whitifli, 



Ed-vj. avr7.oi. f. 3. * Vefpertilio aaritus. Lin. fyfi. 40. Long 



Alh,\\\. Tab. 101. 47. EARED. 



La petite chauve fouris de V. auritus, nafo oreque fim- 

 notre pays. Brijfon quad, piici, auriculis dupiicatis, 



160. capite majoiibus. Faun. 



L^oreillar. De Buff on, Tom. Suec. 3. 



viii. 118. 127. Tab. 17. Br. Zed. ^6. Syn. quad. No, 

 f. I. 292. 



TYPHIS fpecies is the left of the 5r///}^j bats : the 



JL length being only an inch and three quarters ; 



and the extent of the fore- legs feven inches. 



The 



