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ever, we know several of both continents*. Some of them 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 CuErROMELES f. 
It is here, perhaps, that we should also place the l'nrroprera 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 f. 
Noctitio, 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. leporinus, Gm. Schreb. LX. §. 
Puytiostoma, 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—Vamrirus, Spix. 
P. spectrum; V. spectrum, Lin.; the Andira-guagu 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. plicatus, Buchan.; Lin. Trans., V. pl. xiii;—Dysopes rup- 
pelii, Temm., Monog., pl. xviii. 
+ Cheiromeles torquatus, Horsf., Jay. or Dysopes cheiropus, Temm., Monog., pl. xvii. 
{ Thir. tricolor, Spix, 36, f.9. Itis with some hesitation that we have thus placed 
this subgenus, its description being incomplete. 
§ The N. dorsatus, 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. rufus, Spix, 35, 1. 
|| Add the Lunette; Vesp. perspicillatus, L.; Buff., Supp. VII. lxxiv; and the three 
species from D’Azara, by Geoff., Ann. du Mus, VI. 181—182. 
