42 MamMaLia OF INDIA. 
the anal opening, are two small, kidney-shaped subcutaneous glandular 
bodies. 
SizE.—Head and body, 4 inches ; tail, $ inch. 
Found in Farm Caves, Moulmein. The absence of the claw on the 
index finger is specially to be noted. 
MICROCHIROPTERA. 
SUB-FAMILY VAMPYRID. 
GENUS MEGADERMA. 
Bats with simple or complicated nose-leaves or membranes. The 
conch of the ear very large, and joined together on the top of the head ; 
tragus large and bifurcated; nasal membranes complicated; no tail ; 
wings remarkably ample. They have four incisors below but none 
above, the intermaxillaries remaining cartilaginous. 
ae! 
ees 
Or - 
2—2 2—2 
Dental formula : Inc., ' ‘Can; = ; pre-m., ; molars, aa 
No. 36. MEGADERMA LYRA. 
The Large-eared Vampire Bat (Jerdon’s No. 15). 
HasitTat.—India and Ceylon. 
DescripTion.—Above ashy blue, 
slaty or pale mouse colour; al- 
bescent or yellowish ashy beneath ; 
nasal appendage large, oblong, free 
at the tip, reaching to the base of 
the ears with a fold down the centre ; 
tragus (oreil/on) cordate, two-lobed, 
anterior long, narrow and pointed, 
posterior lobe half the height and 
rounded; muzzle truncated ; under-lip 
cleft ; wing membranes dark brown. 
SizE.—Head and. body, 3 or 
34 inches; wing extent, 14 to 19 
inches. 
Very abundant in old buildings. 
They are beyond doubt blood- 
suckers. Blyth noticed one fly into 
his room one evening with a small 
vespertilio, which it dropped on being chased. The smaller bat was 
