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No. 99. HARPIOCEPHALUS HARPIA. 
Lasiurus Pearsonit (Horsfield) (Jerdon’s No. 50). 
Hapitat.—Darjeeling and Khasia hills, 
DEscripTion.— Fur above very soft, silky, and rather long; colour 
on the head, neck, and shoulders brownish grey, with a ferruginous cast, 
variegated with whitish hairs ; the rest of the body above, with the base 
of the membrane, the thighs and the interfemoral membrane, have a 
deep bay or reddish-brown hue, and delicate hairs of the same colour 
are scattered over the membrane and project from its border; the body 
underneath is thickly covered with a grey fur, which is paler on the 
breast and body; the interfemoral membrane marked with regularly 
parallel transverse lines” (forsfield). Ears ovoid ; tragus rather long, 
nearly straight, acute at the tip (/erdoz). Muzzle rather short, obtusely 
conical ; end of nose projecting considerably beyond the lip, consisting 
of diverging tubular nostrils opening laterally, with a slight emargination 
between each (Dodson). 
SizE.—Head and body, 3 inches; tail, 14 inch; expanse, 14. 
Hodgson, who procured it at Darjeeling, writes of it: “ Entire legs and 
caudal membrane clad in fur like the body, which is thick and woolly. 
Colour bright rusty above; sooty 
below, the hairs tipped with hoary.” 
This bat is, for its size, one of the 
most powerfully armed with teeth. 
The skull reminds one of that of a 
dog or hyzna in miniature; the 
teeth are very stout, the canines 
blunt and conical, and the cusps 
of the molars short and _ blunt, 
well coated with enamel; the jaws Skull of Harpiocephalus harpia. 
are correspondingly muscular and 
adapted to the food of the animal, which consists of hard-shelled 
beetles, the crushed cases of which have been found in its stomach, 
No. 100. HARPIOCEPHALUS (MURINA) SUILLUS. 
The Pig-Bat (Jerdon’s No. 51). 
Hasitat.—Darjeeling (/erdon) ; Malayan archipelago. 
DescripTion.—Muzzle narrow, elongated; nostrils very prominent, 
which, viewed from below, resemble in shape a small hour-glass placed 
horizontally at the extremity of the muzzle; ears moderate, shorter 
than the head, rounded at the tips; tragus moderately long, attenuated 
above and slightly curved outwards ; fur light greyish-brown ; extremities 
dark brown; beneath light greyish-brown throughout.—Dodson. 
S1ze.—Head and body, 1? to 2 inches; tail, 14 inch; expanse 9 to To. 
