BHINOLOPHIN^. 23 



Length, head and body, 2| inches ; ear, l^V- Wagner, in his sup- 

 plemental volume to Schreber, makes Hodgson's species schistacea, as 

 synonymous with this one ; and as part of his description is apparently 

 taken from Hodgson, I can give no other characters than those above. 

 T have not seen a specimen. It is stated to have been found in Kashmir 

 hj Baron Hiigel. 



Two other species are recorded from the East, M. Horsfieldii, Bljth, 

 from Tenasserim, and M. sjxtsma, L. from Malayana and Ceylon. Dr. 

 Cantor states that in the latter species he found a small ccecum, -^-^ of 

 an inch long. 



One species, M. frons, is from Egypt. 



Sub-fam. Rhinolophin^. 



Nasal leaf, complicated, membranous. Fore-finger of a single joint ; 

 wings, largely developed. Females with pubic warts simulating mammae. 

 This family is greatly developed in India and INIalayana. 



Gen. Rhinolophus, Geoffrey. 



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Char. — Incisors, — or — ; the upper ones small and distant ; 



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molars, or or : nose furnished with a complicated 



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apparatus, consisting of a cordate or semi-orbicular leaf, bilobed in front 

 of the nostrils ; a longitudinal crest along the nose, and an erect frontal 

 leaf posterioi"ly, more or less lanceolate. Ears, large, not joined at the 

 base, without a tragus, but often with a lobe at the base of the outer 

 margin. Tail, long, connate with the membrane. Wings, long, ample. 

 These bats are said to hang with their body rolled up in their wings as 

 in a mantle. 



17. Rhinolophus perniger. 

 Hodgson, J. A. S., XII. 414. — Blyth, Cat. G2. — H. lucfAcs,TEumm;Kl 



The large Leaf-bat. 



Descr. — Ears, very large, much longer than the head, broad, acutely 

 pointed ; nasal apparatus, very complicated, the lower leaf very large, con- 

 cealing the upper lip like a door-knocker j the upper leaf like a graduated 

 spire ; ears, transversely striate ; a rather large semicircular lobe at base 



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of ear ; lower lip with two warts ; molars, — Fui-, long, dense, soft, 



