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proportions, the first being much smaller, the second some- 
what larger. 
In regard to these teeth, the jaw in question resembles 
that of the AZolossi, especially Mol. Daubentoni, but it 
differs from all the species of that genus that I have seen 
in the more produced angle of the jaw. In this character, 
as well as in the number, shape, and size of the teeth, it 
agrees closely with the Rhinolophi, especially the species 
called ‘‘ Greater Horse-shoe Bat.” It is too large for any of 
our native species of Vespertilio, save the Nectule, to which 
the proportions of the premolar forbid a reference: but it 
corresponds in the size as well as shape of the bone, and 
in the modifications of the teeth, with the Lhinolophus 
Ferrum-equinum. 
Unequivocal remains of this species of Bat, from the 
bone-cave called Kent’s Hole near Torquay, Devon, are con- 
tained in the British Museum: some of the specimens appear 
to be in the same absorbent condition, as the bones of the 
Hyena, Rhinoceros, &c., from the same cave; others are 
evidently more recent. It is worthy of remark that the 
Greater Horse-shoe Bat is most commonly met with in the 
Devonshire caves at the present day, and is the only species 
known to frequent Kent’s Hole.* 
In every other example of remains of bats from bone- 
caves, where the condition of the specimen has permitted 
a direct or approximate identification, it has been with 
some existing British species ; and the general result of this 
part of my paleontological researches—the most tedious, 
but yielding the least important results—is, that no remains 
of Bats have hitherto been found, however situated in 
caverns, or altered in chemical constitution, which establish 
the former existence of any species not now known to exist, 
* See Bell’s British Quadrupeds, p. 71. 
