THE GREATER HORSE-SHOE BAT. 



Rhinolophus Ferrum-equinura. LEACH. 



PLATE I. 



Nasal membrane double ; the anterior with its margins 

 sinuated ; the posterior laterally expanded at the base, and 

 tapering to a point ; the ears transversely grooved towards 

 the outer margin. 



Vespertilio Ferrum-equinum. Linn. Gmel. I. 50 ; Mont. Linn. 

 Trans. IX. 122 Rhinolophus unihastatus. Geoffr. Ann. Mus. 

 XX. 257; Desmar. Mammal. 125. Rhinolophus Ferrum- 

 ^quinum. Leach, Zool. Misc. III. 2 ; Jenyns, Brit. Vert. 

 An. 19 ; Bell, Brit. Quadr. 68. 



THE Rhinolophina are prominently distinguished 

 by their nasal cutaneous appendage, which in the 

 genus considered as typical of the family, is curi- 

 ously complicated, and may be divided into two 

 parts, an anterior and a posterior. The former, 

 bearing a fancied resemblance to a horse-shoe, sur- 

 rounds the nostrils, and stretches upward to the 

 base of the posterior expansion, which is of an 

 ovato-lanceolate form, or hastate, that is, furnished 

 with lateral lobes. It has been conjectured that 



