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ever, we know several of both continents*. Some of tlieni have the 

 thumb of the hinder feet placed at a greater distance from the first finger 

 than the fingers are from each other, and endowed with a power of sepa- 

 rate motion, a character on which, in a species where it is very strongly 

 marked, M. Horsfield has established his genus Ciieiromeles-|-. 



It is here, perhaps, that we should also place the Tiiiroptera of Spix, 

 which appear to have several characters of the Molossi, and whose thumb 

 has a little concave palette peculiar to them, and by which they are ena- 

 bled to cling more closely;];. 



NocTiLio, Lin., Ed. XII. 



Has the muzzle short, inflated, and cleft, as in a double hair-lip, fur- 

 nished with warty tubercles and odd looking seams ; ears separate ; four 

 incisors above, and two below; tail short, and free above the inter-femoral 

 membrane. 



The species best known is from America. It is of a uniform 

 fawn-colour — Vespert. leporimis, Gm. Schreb. LX. §. 



Phyllostoma, Cuv. and Geoff. 



In which the regular number of incisors is four to each jaw, but in 

 which a part of the lower ones frequently fall, being forced out by the 

 growth of the canines : they are moreover distinguished by a membrane 

 in the form of a leaf, which is reflected crosswise on the end of the nose. 

 The tragus of the ear resembles a small leaf, more or less indented. The 

 tongue, which is very extensible, terminates in papilla, which appear to 

 be so arranged as to form an organ of suction — the lips also are furnished 

 with tubercles, symmetrically arranged. They are all from America, run 

 along the ground with more facility than the other bats, and have a habit 

 of sucking the blood of animals. 



1. The Phyllostomes without a tail. — Vampirus, Spix. 



P. spectrum;' V. spectrum, Lin.; the Andira-gua^u of the Bra- 

 zilians; Seb. LVIII; Geoff. Ann. Mus. XV. xii, 4. (The Vam- 

 pire). The nasal leaf wrought into a funnel ; colour a reddish brown ; 

 size, that of a magpie. From South America. It has been accused 

 of causing the death of men and animals by sucking their blood ; but 

 it does no more than inflict very small wounds which may sometimes 

 be affected by the poisonous influence of the climate ||. 



* M.plicatus; Vespert. pUcatus, Buchan. ; Lin. Trans., V. pi. xiii; — Dysopes rup- 

 pelii, Tenim., Monog., pi. xviii. 



f Cheiromeles torquatus, Horsf., Jav. or Dysopes cheiropus, Temm., Monog., pi. xvii. 



X Tldr. tricolor, Spix, 3C, f. 9. It is with some hesitation that we have thus placed 

 this subgenus, its description being incomplete. 



§ The N. dorsafus, Geoff., or the N.vittatus, Pr. Max., has a white stripe down the 

 back. — The N. albiventer, Spix, 35, 2 and 4, is fawn-coloured above, white beneath, 

 and rather smaller. Add N. ru/us, Spix, 35, 1. 



II Add the Lunette; Vesp. perspicillatus, L. ; Buff., Supp. VII. Ixxiv; and the three 

 species from D'Azara, by Geoff., Ann. du Mus. VI. 181—182. 



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