4 CHEIROPTERA. 



Fii'st discovered in Egypt by Riippel ; has been found 

 in several parts of Italy, the Maremma of Sienna, Pisa, 

 Rome, and in Sicily. The Prince of Musignano thinks that 

 this Bat will be found to exist in most parts of the Itahan 

 peninsula. 



Genus RHINOLOPHUS. 



Teeth. — Incisors, -| ; canines, y^-j^ ; molars, -5^75- 

 Nostrils with two follicles, the hinder one erect ; ears 

 free ; tragus wanting. 



Rhinolophus ferrum-equinum. 



Rhinolophus unihastatus, Desm. Mamm. Sp. 184. 



Rhinolophus ferrum-equinum, Bell, Brit. Quad. ; Buon. Faun. Ital. 



(figured). 

 Great Horseshoe Bat. 



Description-. — Upper incisors very smaU, separated from 

 each other ; lower incisors each with three lobes ; ears 

 nearly as long as the head, somewhat triangular, broad at 

 the base, ending in an acute point ; the external margin 

 notched at the base, and forming an elevated round lobe, 

 which guards the orifice, and appears to act the part of 

 tragus, which is wanting ; nostrils placed at the bottom of 

 a cavity, close to each other, surrounded by a naked mem- 

 brane in the shape of a horseshoe arising from the upper 

 lip ; anterior follicle rising vertically immediately behind 

 the nostrils, of a somewhat pyramidal form, sinuous at the 

 margins and apex, which last is obliquely truncated ; the 

 posterior placed on the forehead, transversely to the an- 

 terior, and more erect, lanceolate, expanding laterally at 

 the base, in front of which are two small, cup-shaped 

 cavities formed by a fold of the skin. Colour of the fur 

 reddish ash, inclining to grey beneath ; membranes dusky ; 

 ears within and without slightly hairy. 



