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X. Defcriptlon of the VefpertUio' plicatus . By FrANCIS 



BUCHANNAN, M.D. A.L.S,* 



V. 



ESPERTILIO PLiCATus t> tailed ; the noftrils round, 

 fitnple perforations ; the upper lip very large, and folded ; 

 the ears as large as the head, folded, and half pendulous. 

 Inhabits old houfes at Puttahaut in Bengal. 



From its teeth this bat can only be miftaken for the Ce- 

 ■pbalotes ; but the defcription of that fpecies will not apply 

 to this. 



From the point of the nofe to the root of the tail three 

 inches ; from the extremity of one wing to that of the other 

 twelve inches. 



The wings, and naked parts of the body, are foot-coloured. 

 Tlie hair is mixed with a(h-colour, and is paler below than 

 on the back. 



The head is large, thick at the (boulders, and tapers gra- 

 dually to the fnout ; which is blunt, terminates in a heart- 

 (haped margin, and projefts far beyond the lower jaw. It 

 is moltly naked ; but has feveral long, ere6l briftles. The 

 noftrils are fmall circular holes, remote from each other, and 

 placed under the margin of the fnout. The upper lip at 

 the fides hangs over the under jaw, and at each fide is deeply 

 wrinkled with feven or eight vertical folds. The ears are 

 large, blunt, wrinkled, and fomewhat pendulous. From 

 being bent in feveral folds, they at firft fight appear to be 

 thick and flefliy. They approach very near at their infertion 

 on the brow, and are naked, except on a (harp finus towards 

 the hinder part of the head. On their edge near the tips are 

 five or fix fmall warts. There are no internal auricles. The 

 eyes are in two fmall flits above the angles of the mouth, and 

 are almoft covered by the ears. There are two ftrong tu(ks 

 in each jaw. In the upper jaw there are two conical fiiarp 

 fere-teeth, half as long as the tuiks. Below, in place of thefe, 

 there arc only two fmall points, fcarccly projecting from the 

 gums. The grinders are a little removed from the tuflis, and 



* From the Tranfanions of the. Linnaan Society, Vol. V. 

 + Seftion 1" of Kcr's Tr;in(lation of Ginclin's Syft. Nat, 



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