83 MICROCHIROPTERA. 
numerous long brush-like papille. Interfemoral membrane very 
narrow. ‘Tail generally quite concealed by the fur. Fur reddish- 
brown, unusually long for this family. 
Dimensions.—Head and body about two and a third inches ; tail 
about a third of an inch ; forearm about one and two-fifths inch. 
Habitat.—North and West Australia. From the Philippine 
Islands through the Malay Archipelago eastward to New Ireland 
and the Solomon Islands. 
Reference.—Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 476. 
Note.—Though of so small a size, this Bat is said to be very 
destructive to fruit. 
Suborder II.—Microchiroptera. 
Crowns of molar teeth acutely tubercular with transverse fur- 
rows. Bony palate narrowing abruptly, not continued behind 
last molar. Second finger not terminating in a claw. Sides of 
ear-conch separated at the base anteriorly. Stomach simple, or 
with the cardiac extremity more or less elongated. 
Habits.—Carnivorous ; principally insectivorous ; rarely frugi- 
vorous or sanguinivorous. 
Family IJ.—RHINOLOPHIDA. 
Leaf-nosed Bats. 
Nasal apertures situated in a depression upon the upper surface 
of the muzzle, and surrounded with well developed foliaceous 
cutaneous appendages. Lars large, generally separated, without 
tragi. Index finger imperfect, without a phalanx. Tail distinct 
produced to the outer margin of the interfemoral membrane. Pre- 
maxillary bones rudimentary, suspended from the nasal cartilage. 
Upper incisors rudimentary, close together. 
Subfamily I.—Rutmo.opHina. 
First toe with two joints ; others with three each. Iliopectineal 
spine not connected by bone with the antero-inferior surface of 
the ilium. 
Genus I.—RHINOLOPHUS, Geoffroy (1803). 
Nose-leaf very complicated, consisting of three distinct portions; 
the anterior horizontal, horseshoe-shaped, usually angularly 
emarginate in front, containing within its circumference the 
nasal orifices, and the central erect nasal processes ; the posterior 
erect, triangular, with cells on its anterior surface; the central 
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