NATURAL HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA 



Species 

 (Inhabiting South Africa) 



1. Rhinolophus simulator, K. And. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 



(7), xiv. p. 384 (1904)- 



2. Rhinolophus denti, Thos. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), 



xiii. p. 386 (1904)- 



3. Rhinolophus capensis, Licht. 



4. Rhinolophus darlingi, K. And. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 



(7), xv. p. 21 (1905)- 



5. Rhinolophus augur typicus, K. And. Ann. Mag. Nat. 



Hist. (7), xiv. p. 380 (1904). 

 50. Rhinolophus augur zuluensis, K. And. Ann. Mag. Nat. 



Hist. (7), xiv. p. 383 (1904)- 

 56. Rhinolophus augur zambesiensis, K. And. Ann. Mag. 



Nat. Hist. (7), xiv. p. 383 (1904)- 



6. Rhinolophus empusa, K. And. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 



(7), xiv. p. 378 (1904) ; Chubb, P.Z.S., 1909, P- "5- 

 7 Rhinolophus lobatus, Pet. Reise Mosambique Saugeth., 

 p. 41, pis. ix., xiii., figs. 16, 17 (1852). 



8. Rhinolophus cethiops, Pet. 



9. Rhinolophus hildebrandti, Pet. 



10. Rhinolophus swinnyi, Gough. Ann. Trans. Mus., i. 



No. I., p. 71 (1908). 



11. Clceotis percivali, Thos. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), viii. 



p. 28 (1901) ; Chubb, P.Z.S., 1909, p. 115. 



12. Hipposiderus coffer, Sund. 



13. Hipposiderus commersoni, Schreb. 



Family : NYCTERID^E 

 (The False Vampire and Slit-faced Bats) 



The Bats of this family are distinguished from those of the 

 preceding family by the presence of a small but well-developed 

 tragus in the ears, which are long, and in the nose-leaf not 

 being so complicated. In those forming the typical genus 

 it is practically absent, and is represented by a slit running 

 down the middle of the face ; hence the name Slit-faced Bats. 

 The only Bats representing this family in South Africa belong 

 to this genus (Nycteris). The members of this family are 

 confined to Africa, Asia, and the Malay States. 



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