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XXVII. Defcription of the VefperUUo plicatus. By Francis Buchannan^ 



M.I). A.L.S. 



Read November 5, 1799. 



VESPERTILIO PLICATUS. 

 Seaion F ofKers Tranjlation o/Gmelins S\Ji. Nat. 



Tailed ; the noftrils round, fimple perforations : the upper Hp very 

 large, anu folded : the ears as large as the head, folded, and half 

 pendulous. 



Inhabits old houfes at Puttahaut in Bengal. 



FROM its teeth this bat can onl^ be miftaken for the Cephaloies : 

 _ but the defcription of that fpecies will not apply to this.- ' 

 From the point of the nofe to the root of the tail 3 inches: 

 from the extremity of one wing to that of the other 12 inches. 



The wings, and naked parts of the body, are foot-coloured. The 

 hair is mixed with aQi-colour, and is paler below than on the back. 

 The bead is large, thick at the flioulders, and tapers- gradually to 

 the fnoiit ; which is blunt, terminates in a heart-fliaped margin,, 

 and projeds far beyond the lower jaw. It is moftly naked ; but 

 has fevcral long, ered bridles. The nojirils are fmall circular holes,, 

 remote from each other, and placed under the margin of the fnout. 

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