56 MAMMALIA OF INDIA. 
GENUS RHINOPOMA. 
Ears moderate, but joined above, as in the Megaderms ; the nostrils 
at the end of the muzzle, with a little lamina above, forming a kind of 
snout ; tail slender and joined at the base with the intercrural membrane, 
but extending far Berane it. 
Dental formula: Inc., a Can.) === sane ‘molars, © 
—!; molars, 3—3. 
—— 5) 3 cone 
aes 
No. 69. RHINOPOMA HARDWICKII. 
Hardwick's Long-tailed Leaf Bat (Jerdon’s No. 30). 
Hasitat.— All over India, Burmah 
and Malayana. 
DESCRIPTION. — Muzzle long, thick, 
truncated, and surrounded by a small leaf ; 
tragus oblong, bi-acuminate ; forehead 
concave with a channel down the centre ; 
fur soft and very fine, dull brown through- 
out ; face, rump, and part of abdominal 
“ region naked.—/erdon. 
Skull of Rkznopoma. S1zE.—Head and body, 2455 inches ; 
tail, 23; expanse, 13. 
Frequents old ruins, caves, and clefts in rocks. 
SUB-FAMILY NOCTILIONID. 
Bats without facial membranes; with short obtuse and _ bull- desea 
heads ; large lips. 
GENUS TAPHOZOUS. 
Have a small rounded indenture on the forehead ; no raised lamina 
on the nostrils ; the head pyramidal; eyes rather large; ears moderate 
in size and not joined at the base, but widely apart ; the tip of the tail 
free above the membrane, which is much longer. 
The males have a transverse cavity under the throat ; wings long and 
narrow, Collapsing with a double flexure outwards ; fur soft and velvety. 
(Dobson includes this genus in his Family E7dalfonuride.) 
= I— 2— -—3 
Dental formula: Inc., =e can., —; pre-molars, tt molars, = 28 
fe) 
premaxillaries cartilaginous, diipoheine only one pair ao weak incisors 
with a gap between them. 
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