86 LONG-EARED BAT. 



The body is depressed, short, and about the size 

 of that of a Domestic Mouse. The head oblong ; 

 the eyes prominent, of ordinary size ; the nostrils 

 supernal, oblong, with a prominence at the anterior 

 margin, which renders the snout a little emarginate, 

 the ears very large, approximated at the base, where 

 they are united by a membrane, elliptical and trans- 

 versely rugous towards the outer edge, the internal 

 margin flat, with two longitudinal converging lines. 

 There are two small lobes at the base of the internal 

 flat margin, and an anterior oblongo-lanceolate, rather 

 obtuse, anteriorly concave membrane, with a small 

 rounded process externally at the base ; the mouth 

 is large, opening to beneath the eyes. The fur is 

 long, fine, and silky, of a dusky brownish-grey 

 above, yellowish-grey beneath. The delicate mem- 

 brane which includes the limbs and tail is of a 

 dusky hue. The tail protrudes beyond the mem- 

 brane about the eighth of an inch. The ears are 

 dusky, and bare, but ciliated on the second rib, and 

 on the inner margin towards the end. The anterior 

 limb has four digits, the first very short, with three 

 phalanges, and armed with a curved, compressed, 

 acute claw ; the second of two phalanges, the last 

 being extremely small ; the third and fourth of four ; 

 the fifth of five. The hind limb has four nearly 

 equal, slender, short, compressed toes; the outer 

 smaller, with two, the rest with three phalanges; 

 all armed with acute, compressed, curved claws. 



