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below the nose forming a kind of depression sharply divided on 

 each side from the more swollen lateral portions of the lip. The 

 first phalanx (middle joint) of the third or longest finger very 

 short, less than one third the length of the second or terminal 

 phalanx, which is very long, and is folded in repose on the under 

 surface of the wing, reaching beyond the middle of the metacarpal 

 bone. The wings are attached to the inferior surface of the tibia 

 just above the ankle, and connected with the interfemoral mem- 

 brane by a band of integument passing below the tibia. Tail as 

 long as the head and body, entirely contained within the inter- 

 femoral membrane. 



Dentition : i. ^?, c. ^-, pra. |^|, m. |^j. 



But a single representative is found in India. This has the 

 same range as the genus and almost the widest range of any 

 species in the Order, being found in Southern Europe, Asia, Africa, 

 Madagascar, and Australia. 



216. Miniopterus schreibersi. The long -winged Bat. 



Vespertilio schreibersii, Natterer, Kuhl, Deutsche Flederm. p. 41 

 (1817). 



Vespertilio fuliginosa, Hodgson, J. A. 8. B. iv, p. 700 (1835). 



Scotophilus fuliginosus, Jerdon, Mam. p. 36 (description incorrect). 



Miniopterus australis, Dobson, J. A. S. B. xl, pt. 2, p. 265, nee- 

 Tomes. 



Miniopterus blepotis, Temm., Hutton, P. Z. 8. 1872, p. 709. 



Miniopterus schreibersii, Dobson, Mon. As. Chir. p. 160; id. Cat. 

 Chir. B. M. p. 34S ; Anderson, Cat. p. 145 ; Scully, J. A. 8. B. Ivi. 

 pt. 2, p. 256. 



Miniopterus pusillus, Dobson, Mon. As. Chir. p. 162. 



Muzzle short; glandular area between the eye and nostril 

 extending to the upper lip, prominent, thinly clad, but bearing 

 rather long hairs ; forehead thickly clothed with long hair. Ears 

 of a subtrigonally rounded form, only extending, when laid 

 forwards, to just beyond the eyes; tips indistinct, blunt; inner 

 margin of the ear-conch very convex, outer margin deeply notched 



Fig. 1 12. Head of Miniopterus schreibersi. (Blasius, Saugeth. Deutschlancls. ) 



opposite the base of the tragus and ending in a long convex lobe 

 that extends from the base of the tragus to the angle of the 

 mouth. Tragus rounded above, and with the margins nearly 



