PRIMATES. THE BAT TRIBE. 9 



narrow and very thin flap of skin. Teeth, and particularly the canine- 

 teeth, much larger and more strong in this than in any others of the 

 British bats. Ears about the length of the head, broad at the base, 

 and at their tips sharp-pointed : they incline backward, and have 

 no inner valves. The females have each four nipples, of Which two 

 are seated on the breast, and two betwixt the hinder legs. 



Fur long, thick, and very soft; of deep cinereous colour 4 above, 

 and whitish below. Ears, tail, and membranes nearly black. W. B. 



Found about the gunpowder-mills, at Dartford, in Kent. 



Vespertilio caudatus, naso ferro equino simuli, auribus 

 caput cequantibus non operculatis, cauda dimidia corporis 

 longitudine. Vespertilio ferrum-equinum. Linn* Sjst. 

 Gmel. i. p. 50. 



Vespertilio naso foliato ferri equini cemulo. / espertilio 

 ferrum-equinum. Erxleben, Syst. regn. animal, gen. 16, 

 sp. 13, p. 154. 



Vespertilio ferrum-equinum. Horse-shoe Bat. Tur- 

 ton, i. p. 27. Kerr, p. 99. 



La Chcwve-souris a fer-a-cheval. Buff. Sonn. xxv. 

 p. 324, pi. 15, fig. 1,2. pi. 13. fig. 3. 



La fer-a-cheval. Cuv. Tab. Element, p. 105. 



Horse-shoe Bat. Penn. Brit. Zool. i. p. 14T, tab. 14, 

 fig. 1,2,3. Shaw's Gen.Zool. i. p. 131. Smellie's Buf- 

 fon, iv. p. 324, tab. 90, fig. 1 and 93, fig. 1. 



With 



